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This is Twittering: Meta-commentary Digest, Episode 32

Here grow again (nothing is growing), including links. WISDOM: Just because I don’t care, that doesn’t mean I don’t disapprove. Actually, it does mean that. It also means I don’t approve. I just don’t care. Stop bothering me about it. STUPID: Too Big to Smell: The Inside Story of How Speed Stick and Right Guard [...]

My Top 10 2011 Top 10 Lists of 2011

The year is almost over, and that means it’s time to recap the best of everything 2011. Rather than list my favorite albums or movies or celebrity divorces of the year, I’ve decided to list my Top 10 2011 Top 10 Lists of the Year. These are presented in no particular order, except from top [...]

This is Twittering: Meta-commentary Digest, Episode 31

Now it’s the time when it’s time for another meta-commentary digest. This week[1] I’ve tried something different: I’ve included direct links to the toots I’m talking about, so you (if you are on Twitter AKA if you are cool) can retoot or favorite the ones you like, if the mood should strike. I’ll see if [...]

Ask Conlan: Ipsay Actfay

Somebody writes: Why do you waste everyone’s time with these dumb “Ask Conlan” things? Most of the time they don’t even make sense. When I get done reading it I usually say to myself something funny like, “There’s five minutes of my life I’ll never get back” or something like that, like they’d say in [...]