James Joyce

Previously on Cheek and Bluster

• 2010 Comment-Con

  August 29, 2010

  Some of you may have noticed that comments on recent posts have gone missing. If you haven’t noticed, I sure as hell have. Posts since November 2009 that had comments still say that they do in the meta-link at the top of the post (e.g. “2 comments,” etc.), but those comments just don’t appear at [...]

• It’s August 26th, Assholes

  August 26, 2010

  As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:

  It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?

  Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:

• Cameraphone Follies: The Most Hypocritical Man in the World

  August 24, 2010

• Don’t Say It: A One-Man Dialogue

  August 23, 2010

  Don’t say it.

  But you-

  Don’t even say it, because I know.

  [in unison]
  Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
  Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.

  Told you I knew.

  Of course you knew, we’re the same person. What, d’you think you’re cool because you can read your own mind?

• Freshly Aired: Big Pharma and Psychiatry

  July 16, 2010

  A lot of the public doesn’t realize how sophisticated the [pharmaceutical industry's] marketing techniques have become, really over the last 10 years… Essentially when a pharmaceutical company gets FDA approval for a drug, their marketing department can assure their bosses that they are going to be able to sell the drug, really whether the drug [...]