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The Angry Reporter: December 2013
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Bullshit Is My Enemy.". Tuesday, December 31, 2013. For me, 2013 felt like a year in exile. Having lost my apartment to Hurricane Sandy in 2012, I’d been living at the family beach compound, paying rent, eking out a meager existence. Over 80 percent of my belongings that survived the storm have been in storage for the last 13 months. So 2013 was limbo. A transient state of existence. I feel like I should be moving on, pulling up stakes and exploring whatever’s over the horizon. So let’s crank this ...
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The Angry Reporter: My Old T-Shirt Collection
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Bullshit Is My Enemy.". Thursday, July 10, 2014. My Old T-Shirt Collection. Rummaging through my parent's house, I discovered a few tattered T-shirts from a bygone era (the 1990s). Yes, I like wearing comfortable cotton T-shirts. Always have. Yet with the passing years, tastes as well as styles inevitably change. What a young, lusty rake finds desirable and fashionable, the middle aged man ridicules, tosses his head heavenward and barks "What ever was I thinking? One of the tamest shirts I owned, a simpl...
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The Angry Reporter: Smuttynose RIP
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Bullshit Is My Enemy.". Wednesday, November 12, 2014. My cat Smuttynose, a.k.a. Smutty, Smutters, Nosey, Noser, Tigger, Fluffyface, Winkins, Scion of Evil, and Elnie’s Baby, died on Nov. 1. During my separation, Smuttynose came to live with me in my shitty (former). Apartment. He stood by me, all whiskers and fluffy paws, through divorce, moving, evacuation from Hurricane Sandy and moving again. He was the King of Kitties. But even kings are not incorruptible to the crushing forces of time. Smuttynose em...
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Connecting Ideas: May 2007
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May 26, 2007. Planned, partly planned and unplanned adventures. The bed at the hotel is one of the best I have ever slept in. It is strange, but I have not had any dreams yet in Armenia. Your brain never gets a rest here to have a dream. Yesterday I called the people I wanted to meet to let them know. My list is very short. Only the most essential ones. The first one is in the lobby of the hotel waiting for me. He is RK. And no, in case you were wondering, he is not. Now, more than ever, Armenia needs a.
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Connecting Ideas: Day 2: What We Have Wrought
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August 12, 2011. Day 2: What We Have Wrought. It is morning. Before I get up and go, I have to see an important man. He is Ter Mesrop. I had met him also 4 years ago in Yerevan. And this year in Montreal. I had been initially introduced to him by one of the "Fellowship of ideas", the most amazing David Y. He had made a remarkable impression on me at the opening of the physics lab of the Phys-Math School for Gifted Children in Yerevan. I had been missing him for months. Kind of like Tumo. Except that ...
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The Angry Reporter: September 2014
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Bullshit Is My Enemy.". Sunday, September 7, 2014. Late tonight, while in the doldrums of boredom, my muse manifested. She's a tough old broad, part Ruth Gordon, part General Patton. A crusty dame chomping on a cigar, eyes narrowed into a skeptic scowl as if she's heard every whiny procrastination from hack writers on why they're not writing. She'd tell you, in a salty Brooklyn accent, gruff and candid; "Quit yer whinin' ya pantywaist! Ya think everything's easy? Come on, genius! Just get 'em down! Nice ...
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The Angry Reporter: March 2014
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Bullshit Is My Enemy.". Thursday, March 27, 2014. Why I Quit Standup. The following essay contains strong language/adult content and may cause heart palpitations, nervous fidgeting, restlessness, unbridled outrage and/or uncomfortable silence. Album to my fellow 7. Graders in the school cafeteria, comedy flowed in my blood. Or so I thought. Having put those early uncomfortable experiences 20 years behind me, I was ready to try again, because,. I was a complete masochist, and. Comedians are damaged. I...
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The Angry Reporter: July 2014
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Bullshit Is My Enemy.". Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Book of the Bunny. It's 1994. CompuServe connects humanity, a network beholden to subscribers chattering about politics, pop culture and fetish porn. Truly the Internet's darkest days. Amid this cesspool of text and Netscape Navigator's crude pixels, CompuServe subscribers engaged in pernicious flame wars and mundane conversation in a multitude of forums. So what did the Church of the Bunny actually do? 1 Apparently I was very talented, funny and energetic.
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The Angry Reporter: November 2013
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Bullshit Is My Enemy.". Tuesday, November 12, 2013. This past Saturday, I demoed Ravaged Earth at Philcon, a science fiction convention based in Philadelphia but now held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. I first ran Ravaged Earth at Philcon back in 2006, when the game was mired in development hell with a fledgling publisher who couldn’t get it off the ground. The infamous sign-up sheet, taped to the game suite door. Names have been painstakingly redacted to protect everyone's identity. For my demo, which I was.
