Markkaplowitz

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• Remember When Genre Was Genre: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference 2012...

  All of the speakers at the Writer’s Digest Conference that I attended last weekend were excellent. One of them who stands out in my mind is Donald Maass, who... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 HUMOR, SATIRE

• Remember Life Before Memory Sticks: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference...

  This past weekend I attended the Writer’s Digest Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. It just so happened that there was another Sheraton Hote... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 HUMOR, SATIRE

• Remember When Television Screens Weren’t Measured in Acres?

  This weekend I am attending the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York. It is my first conference, so I’m a little nervous about what to do and whether I’ll lik... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 HUMOR, SATIRE

• Remember When You Could Buy Things Without Being Asked to Write a Review?

  The other day I used a smart phone to buy movie tickets through Fandango. I have never found it so convenient to buy the tickets and pick them up in plenty of... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2011 HUMOR, SATIRE

• Remember When People Were Quiet in Libraries?

  

  Courtesy of adm/flickrThe first rule I ever learned about the library is that it is not pronounced “lie-berry.” The second rule I ever learned about the... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2011 HUMOR, SATIRE

• Remember When You Couldn’t Buy Things Online?

  

  When I send my mental archivist for some good ol’ Christmas memories from my childhood, she brings me back not caroling or egg nog or chestnuts warming on a... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2011 HUMOR, SATIRE

• Remember When There Weren’t Any House Shows?

  

  Every Saturday morning, instead of going to synagogue like the Torah commands, I sit in my living room and watch my wife watching what I’ve come to call “house... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2011 HUMOR, SATIRE

• Remember Old Fashioned Hand Dryers?

  

  People debate evolution as it pertains to life on Earth, but there is no questioning evolution as it pertains to the hand dryers found in the restrooms of... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2011 HUMOR, SATIRE