Hal Stern's thoughts on sports, work, technology, food, and life in New Jersey
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I’ve entered one final writing contest this summer: Erika Napoletano challenged readers to come up with 300 words describing a picture. I made it well under the wire (time and count wise) this time, and you can see my tribute to urban cruft in the
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Robert Heinlein was the first science fiction author that I read. Not read as in one book or one story, but read as in going to the library (pre-Amazon days), finding every single piece of his work, and checking them all out early in the summer and using those long, hot days by the [...]
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Here’s a point-counterpoint of the new and newer that’s left me scratching my head a bit. EPSPN Magazine and Stymie Magazine jointly announced a sports fiction contest, with the winner(s) gaining a highlight in ESPN, Stymie, or somewhere other than the tearsheet above the men’s urinal (or maybe there too, courtesy of the afore-mentioned [...]
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Short form: My friend Erik and I both have day jobs, but have talked for years about starting our own comics business. He’s the artistic one, the creative spirit, and knows his way around the watercolor aisle at Jerry’s Art Supplies. I’m the nerd, the sci-fi hound, the content manager, the business guy, [...]
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I decided to spend some time working on writing projects as I’m between jobs. Seemed like a good idea – dust off some short story ideas, enter a few writing contests, polish up the blog a bit, and of course finish the mythical, much-discussed but oft-ignored hockey book. What I’ve really done is [...]
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It’s been exactly a month since I was last employed full-time. One of my goals for the inter-gig session was to spend more time writing, and branching out from snarky blog entries and technical content in particular. I entered two short stories in the ESPN/Stymie Magazine sports fiction contest, and then only two [...]
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My wonderful wife and I often conclude a rather improbable, highly entertaining or four sigma to the right of center story with “You just can’t make this shit up.” For instance: What if Wil Wheaton, recently joining the ranks of my favorite authors, was riding a unicorn kitten (not a unicorn chaser, mind [...]
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Stymie Magazine proclaims itself a journal of sport and literature. That’s not such a far-fetched concept; we love sports because we find stories in watching, playing, coaching and competing that we tell and retell to our family and friends. If there’s narrative, there’s something more than facts and figures. We’re captivated by [...]
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The opening line of Neil Young’s Ohio, written about the National Guard shootings of students at Kent State University, forty years ago today. I was a bit too young to understand the emotion, the civil unrest, and the extreme bravery of the students that led to “four dead in Ohio”; I’ve only known the [...]
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Had the pleasure of recoding SitePoint podcast #56 with Brad Williams and David Damstra, my co-authors on Professional WordPress. As usual, it was fun romp through the process of writing a book, some of our favorite parts, and what it’s like to write with people you never met in person (sort of the [...]
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