http://briancoltrane.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:15:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just seen what is about to be the top-selling issue of all time for Psychology Today: Fun, ain't it?  Yeah, I bought a copy of this tonight in the grocery store.  For a brief minute I thought that Penthouse had managed to get shelf space right there above MAD Magazine.   The real ... http://briancoltrane.com/2008/07/24/now-thats-psychology/ So where the hell have I been? It's a long story.  If I had to pin it down to one event out of many, I'd chalk it up to the new job.   Sucked the life outta me.   A lot has changed in the past few months.  To top it all off, my ... http://briancoltrane.com/2008/06/03/blaugh-post/ I'm going to be blunt. The WGA is cutting its own throat. Writers are a dime a bazillion. The Internet is not going to make the WGA more important.  In fact, the relevance of a "writer's union" is laughable in the face of the free-media economy of the web.  You spoiled, self-important hacks are looking at ... http://briancoltrane.com/2008/01/07/writers-strike-stupidity/ Not that I needed one, but I developed yet another bad habit.  It started a few weeks ago.  It seemed an innocent diversion, at first.  I only did it once in awhile.  Before I knew it, I was going back to the fridge again, and again, for more.  Now, I ... http://briancoltrane.com/2007/11/06/my-new-vice/ J.K. Rowling just announced that one of the central characters in the Harry Potter series was gay.  The sexual orientation of Harry's mentor, Albus Dumbledore, was revealed to the world during Rowling's appearance at Carnegie Hall.  Is it just me, or did this series, and this author, stop making sense a long ... http://briancoltrane.com/2007/10/20/fairy-potter/ I have been doing intenstive study of foreclosures lately, and in the process I discovered yet another threat to homeowners on the horizon.   The trend is silently picking up speed, and has, so far, escaped the attention of mainstream media. It's my sincere hope, that some cosmic rationale will echo this ... http://briancoltrane.com/2007/10/10/the-housing-storm/ It's been a long time since I picked up a comic book.  As a kid, I used to read them all the time.  "Thor" was a favorite, being one of the few Marvel characters that didn't seem like just one more guy in a super-suit. Anyhow, I came across the new "Thor" while ... http://briancoltrane.com/2007/09/28/thor-spot/  I'm being buried alive by my own junk.   I'm not a technoid or a gotta-have-it type, but somehow I've accumliated a small warehouse of obsolete electronic goods.   Remote controls that I can't identify, that go to products I may no longer have, pile up for the day when I might get brave ... http://briancoltrane.com/2007/09/20/gadget-ghosts/ Mattel's woes over lead-based paint in toys manufactured in China, is a reminder that you get what you pay for.   It wasn't the first incident of a tainted product from China and it won't be the last.   Most Americans are unphased by product recalls. We're used to them.  Cars, spinach, laptop computer ... http://briancoltrane.com/2007/09/07/the-forgotten-china/  MaryAnne's blog contains a reference to Andrew Keen.      He's  a crackpot who laments that the amateur content on the internet will overwhelm us, and destroy all forms of Intelliegence As We Know It.  The advent of MySpace, YouTube, and countless blogs written by talentless hacks will result in a digital anarchy ... http://briancoltrane.com/2007/08/28/you-too-can-be-a-porn-star/