Mid-Career Facebook Status Update Retrospective »

Scott Shrake

What are the necessary aims of a good topical Facebook status update? It should entertain, delight, challenge, blow a mind or two. This is all about realizing and fully accepting that Facebook is a stage, and we’re all players.

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Comments Are Currency »

SM Shrake

There was a time when UsedWigs was young, before it went blog, that we didn’t have comments. If someone had something to say about something I wrote, they sent me an e-mail, and I ignored them. It was the opposite of a free-for-all.

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Chelsea, Bring Me the Axe! »

SM Shrake

In the third act of the classic motion picture drama “Mommie Dearest,” an aging Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) is shown at a meeting with the all-male board of directors of Pepsi-Cola, where her last husband had been president until his recent death. After expressing their condolences, the board tells Crawford she will have to repay [...]

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A Quessay* on the Election »

SM Shrake

[NOTE: This quessay is cross-posted on HuffingtonPost.com]

*Big ups to Crispin Glover, who really should’ve run for president this year, and who once wrote an “essay” called “What Is It?” composed only of questions, with a subtly discernible anti-Steven Spielberg thrust to it. Subtly discernible, the way the media’s anti-Hillary Clinton bias is subtle. I’m paying [...]

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"Hillary 4U&Me" Video: Maybe U, Definitely Not Me »

The fine folks at AdFreak have posted this very odd “Up With People”-type video purported to be Hillary’s response to Barack Obama’s uber-viral “Yes, We Can” video. It’s a real toe-tapper… and by that I mean it’s so god-awful and so wrong in every way. It must be the handiwork of an Obama backer with [...]

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La Cosa Dello Scorpio »

SM Shrake

 
My astrological sun sign is Scorpio, which starts today. I can already hear some of you groaning, “Oh, no, not the zodiac! Who believes in that hogwash?” Guess what? I don’t have any time for people who are not at least somewhat “available” to the occult. (By the way, the YMCA now offers a Necromancy [...]

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