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Jeremy Blachman's Brand New Weblog

I had a weblog before. This is my new one. I went to law school. But now I've written a novel. It's based on this other blog I've been writing (click here). This blog is to talk about that process, and whatever else I feel like writing about. I'll try to make it worth your while. I'm sometimes funny. Sometimes. Thanks for stopping by.

Post Frequency: 3.4/day

Last Entry: March 25, 2011 at 11:22:19

Blogging / London / Paris

Posted on March 25, 2011
I know I haven't posted in way too long. I've been keeping the "What I'm Reading" sidebar updated, but that's about it. Working on a screenplay that I've been bogged down in for a little too long, playing around with...

Excerpts from "Battle Hymn of the Subway Rat Mother"

Posted on January 24, 2011
** Here are the rules: no sleepovers, no playdates, no computer games, and you will learn one instrument and only one instrument. The one being played by the homeless guy asleep on the platform. He sleeps eight hours a day,...

Anonymous Millionaire

Posted on January 23, 2011
I neglected to toss up a link to this column I wrote for Lusso Magazine last month. It's called "Anonymous Millionaire" and is the first in a series. Think Anonymous Lawyer if he were a billionaire, not a lawyer, and...

Books 2010

Posted on December 26, 2010
Figured I'd summarize my year in reading and recommend some books. My records (uh, I mean the thing in the sidebar that says what I'm reading, and that I try to remember to update every time I finish a book)...

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Fun With Words

Posted on December 16, 2010
The New York Times writes about a new Google tool to track the usage of words in books over time. It's fun. First one I tried was kind of fascinating. Love vs. war -- 1700 to the present. Neck in...

Movies 2010

Posted on December 12, 2010
Last year I wrote about how every year recently I've seen fewer and fewer movies. From 33 in 2007 to 22 in 2008, to 16 last year. With less than three weeks left in the year, I'm at 9 in...

Links

Posted on November 29, 2010
I sent off a revision of my Anonymous Lawyer movie script at 5AM this morning, after a very long night working on it. And somehow this seems to have opened up a flood of unexpected blogging today. Interesting. Here are...

Thanksgiving

Posted on November 29, 2010
I was talking to a friend last week, who still reads this blog. He asked how my grandma is doing and said I hadn't posted about her in a while. Which is true. I haven't. She's been stable. Her short-term...

Mentor

Posted on November 29, 2010
Read a book over the weekend -- Mentor, by Tom Grimes. Link is to Amazon. Here's the New York Times review. Want to recommend the book to anyone who's a writer, and also tell you not to read it. The...

Reading, online and off

Posted on November 13, 2010
Before my trip to Israel, I downloaded Instapaper, an iPhone app that lets you store web pages to read offline in a friendly text format. It was quite useful-- I would save stuff to Instapaper when I had wireless access,...

Time Out Tel Aviv

Posted on October 28, 2010
Just in case anyone reads Hebrew... you can check out my interview in Time Out Tel Aviv, in this week's issue. PDF here.

Israel

Posted on October 27, 2010
Got back from Israel on Monday. My body still doesn't know where it is, and I'm wide awake at 5:30 in the morning for no good reason. Thought I'd post some thoughts. Thanks to the blog reader who pointed me...

Changes In Travel (In My Lifetime)

Posted on October 11, 2010
On Thursday my wife and I are going to Israel for 10 days. I just downloaded the Skype app for my iPhone and threw ten dollars into an account. A google search tells me that if I put my iPhone...

A few very random thoughts

Posted on October 06, 2010
-- Teaser for tonight's 11:00 news -- "find out which snack bag is the loudest" -- as they show someone opening a Sun Chips bag. Is this really something that news resources need to be deployed to investigate? A quick...

McSweeney's

Posted on September 21, 2010
I've got a piece on McSweeney's today, inspired by the show House Hunters -- "One Bedroom, Thirteen and a Half Baths" -- check it out!

Data Is Fun

Posted on September 07, 2010
Really neat video of a TED talk about visualizing data and how we can turn isolated bits of information into useful and interesting observations if we take some time to analyze it and turn it into a pretty picture. For...

The End of Blogging (I Don't Mean This One)

Posted on September 05, 2010
I feel like I spend far too much time thinking about Internet content and communication channels without actually using enough of it lately. Twitter and Facebook and the random stuff I've written here about long-form and short-form content. In any...

The Switch

Posted on August 21, 2010
I'm coming out of blogging exile to ruin a movie for you. There will undoubtedly be spoilers in this post. Although the whole movie is spoiled by the trailer, so it probably doesn't even matter. But if you don't want...

Future Food

Posted on July 21, 2010
I stumbled across a TV show I've instantly become addicted to. It's called Future Food, on the Planet Green network (which I did not know existed until I stumbled on this show) and it's a reality show about the chefs...

Twitter

Posted on July 20, 2010
The other day, a friend tried fairly hard to convince me to use Twitter. I have a Twitter account, but I pretty much never post, and rarely check to see what the people I'm following are saying. I can make...

The Shallows

Posted on June 27, 2010
I just finished reading The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. The book stems from an article he wrote a couple of years ago called "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" His argument: the web...

Work of Art

Posted on June 17, 2010
If you think I haven't blogged in three weeks, you're wrong, except that's all I'm going to tell you. :) If you find it, share it, but not in the comments please. I hate that I feel like I'm doing...

Lost

Posted on May 24, 2010
Someone left a comment asking if I watched the Lost finale. I didn't. I've never watched Lost, and I don't say that with any judgment attached -- I certainly watch enough television of dubious quality that whether a show is...

Pee-Wee

Posted on May 21, 2010
There's an article in the Times about Pee Wee Herman having a show that's coming to Broadway, and there's a quote from him: ?Honestly, I?ve been pinching myself.? Now, come on, is that *really* what he's doing to himself? :)...

Funny Signs

Posted on May 12, 2010
This NY Times slide show of 177 poorly-translated signs from around the world is very funny.

Odds and Ends

Posted on May 10, 2010
Okay, clearly I've completely gotten out of the habit of blogging. I was telling my wife I feel like I have nothing to say. She said I have plenty to say. In a sitcom, she would have then rolled her...

Dragons

Posted on April 24, 2010
On theater marquee: "How To Train A Dragon in IMAX and 3D" I think all dragons really ought to see that movie. Could pave the way toward a lucrative career.

Two Links of Food-Related Nonsense

Posted on April 20, 2010
Headline on New York Times article: "A Newcomer To Food Television Tries for a Little Grit." ?The feel and style we?re going for is a little grittier, a little edgier, a little hipper," said Bruce Seidel, the senior vice president...

FreshDirect Thinks I'm Trapped Inside My Apartment

Posted on April 16, 2010
From an e-mail they just sent: A Note About The Potential Doorman Strike Dear Jeremy, Over 28,000 doormen, elevator operators, porters and other residential building employees have indicated that they will strike at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, 2010, if...

iPhone

Posted on April 06, 2010
I'm about a dozen products behind the current Apple release schedule, but, after years of resisting the move from phone-that-is-just-a-phone to phone-that-does-stuff, as of an hour ago, I have an iPhone. The most basic one they sell, but still an...