(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) As I write this, America’s response to COVID-19 has been dismal without federal vision. There are many problems, but one of the things I’ve been considering … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) As I’ve often said, fun is important to us. It refreshes us, it helps us find ourselves, it connects us to others. But sometimes it’s hard … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) There’s something about current pop culture that doesn’t really “pop,” doesn’t seem to engage us unless it’s heavily marketed and promoted. I wonder what can help … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Let me ask you a question – imagine someone is basing a character on you as a writer. How would they portray it, what “writer archetype” … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Last time I posted on how it was hard to deal with there being so much “stuff” out there, which Serdar has commented on. In turn, … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Real fun is subversive. I’m not talking fun that offends. Offense isn’t subversive. Fun that offends is trapped by its need to offend, lacking the sense … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Right now it’s a challenging time for many of us. Politics is a nightmare. Wages are stagnant and the inevitable recession looms while US economic policy … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Thus it is that the Great man abides by what is solid, and eschews what is flimsy; dwells with the fruit and not with the flower. … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) The ever indomitable MagenCubed had a great comment on Twitter about how we often feel we’re not allowed to have fun. That writing, art, everything fun … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) To mark this post historically, this was posted the day Tumblr decided to cut out some adult content (it’s hard to tell exactly what they meant, … Continue reading