Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Let us begin with a simple premise.
Remarks that are black are not allowed here. If you make them, you will be banned. (In this sensitive age, let me stress this is not related to race, but merely color, for the purposes of a metaphor).
The community, surely, could agree on subjects that are “black”. They could be child pornography, or animal torture, or anything else repellent and vile. That’s simple. And how easy it would be, if human thought was along these lines:
OK, I finally figured it out. It took me long enough, but now I get it.
For years, I’ve had a fascination with stand-up comics. I’m not just talking about their comedy, which I certainly appreciate on its own. Indeed, George Carlin has been Slope’s patron saint for years. I mean my ceaseless interest in their work. What they do. How they do it. What their life as a comic is like. What it really means to be a comic day after day.
I’ve never tried stand-up before. It isn’t out of shyness. I enjoy public performances. I’ve been on stages many, many times. Usually talking. Believe it or not, sometimes even singing. Yes, me, singing on stage. For an audience. Honest. But I’ve never tried comedy, even though I’m known to occasionally write funny stuff.
But it finally did click: I’m already doing it! I’m a stand-up. Or at least something extremely close.
(more…)Okay, that took some doing, but the Best Posts Ever page is complete. I’m probably going to come up with one more category and shuffle some posts around, but the content is all there. I honestly hope you take a look around. I mean, how many financial sites have a segment dedicated to “Death“?
There is an important new page on Slope, which is this one. In a way, this page took over a decade to put together, since it represents what I consider some of the very best content from the site over the years. This will be a permanent part of the site, accessed from the Read menu, and I’ll update it on occasion as other important posts make the grade. Enjoy!
(Note: Actually, as of the time of this posting, I’m nowhere near done with all the entries, but I will be by day’s end. I’m simply too uneasy without having a fresh post, so I decided to let you folks have a sneak peek).
There it was on my driveway, just like every month: the latest issue of Gentry magazine, which, as I described it in a prior post, “is a free magazine they distribute around here, packed with a combination of real estate ads, for the tech zillionaires, and plastic surgery ads, for their vain spouses”.
Well, the cover of the January 2021 issue got my attention, so I thought I’d share it, which I’ve thoughtfully scanned:
