Deconstructing the Joke

I had such a great time recording episode 8 of The Heartographer Podcast, with my very special guest Matthew Baldwin! He’s sometimes better known as Defective Yeti, and he’s been a funny guy on the Internet since most of you guys knew what the word blog meant. (Myself included.) Matthew was good enough to make time to chat with me …

How much Googling is too much?

Douglas Mack wrote a beautiful and heart-wrenching piece about his own online dating adventure in The Morning News. (Thanks to Dave Pell’s NextDraft for bringing this to my inbox.) He tackles the topic of newly acquainted folks Googling each other once they find out a full name to query. This is a tricky practice; I usually discourage even sharing one’s entire …