The Price of Fame

There are things you might forget to think about when you imag­ine get­ting your first acting job. Like, are you get­ting this job because of your skill, your talent, your good looks? Or because your dad is named Gary Cole. You know - as in the guy who played Lum­bergh. Well, we can’t all be heroes:

Make sure to let Chad know how you feel.

October 19th, 2008 · Category: Personal · Tags: , , , · 9 Comments »

An Open Letter To Michael Heilemann, Re: Your Site

Hey Michael,

Love the site. The new redesign is going great. Simple, clean. Really pretty. And I hope Habari is work­ing out for you - if you ever get that nailed down, I’d love to switch too! But could you do me a favor and put up some kind of con­tact link or email address?

The reason is that I’d love to talk to you about how your feed is messed up. Instead of  getting HTML, it’s spit­ting out the textile/markdown you’re using to create the entries. I’d even vol­un­teer to help you figure out what’s caus­ing it. But you know, there’s no way to con­tact you.

Best of Luck,

Jemal

October 16th, 2008 · Category: Web Sites · Tags: , , · No Comments »

What, this again?

An increas­ingly irrel­e­vant come­dian writes:

“There is a huge boom in autism right now because inat­ten­tive moth­ers and com­pet­i­tive dads want an expla­na­tion for why their dumb-​ass kids can’t com­pete aca­d­e­m­i­cally, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diag­noses that help explain away the defi­cien­cies of their junior morons. I don’t give a  shit what these crack­er­jack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autis­tic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”

I don’t get it - where’s the punch line? Oh, his career. That is funny!

October 16th, 2008 · Category: Autism · Tags: , · 3 Comments »