Category: Blog

  • Just When Your Credit Card Thought It Was Safe…

    Super-Cool Bitch Magazine is currently holding an eBay fundraising auction. Not only can you score some sweet art, homemade products or rare back issues, you can bid on Tiny Wooden Hands autographed by yours truly.

  • Part Three: Choose A Song (A-F)

    Wait…where were we? Oh, yeah. You may be asking: Yes, Dan, but…how does the game know if I’m awesome? Well, from the product description: …it’s a game that utilizes a system to measure and compare how closely you can match your tone of voice to the ideal tone for the song. On the screen, you…

  • Part Two: Choose A Character

    This one is photo intensive. More words later. What were we talking about yesterday? Oh, yeah. This: The thing I worried about most — and oh, but did I WORRY — was that a karaoke game you play in your living room would lack the most important element of the karaoke experience: that of shamed,…

  • This is a Dan Blau six-time exclusive

    It’s time to talk about the karaoke. Recently, I celebrated my twenty-[cough]-nth birthday. Because I am a hopeless dork, this event was celebrated, in part, with the purchase of this game, which is known to some as “Karaoke Revolution 3,” and known to others as “The Greatest Game Ever Created In The Known History Of…

  • (you guys do good works)

    [readermail] Pamie.com readers have donated more than $1300 to the GSA at UNA! Thank you all so very much for your support and words of encouragement. It means a great deal to everyone in the group. You, the Pamie.com readers, have helped us fight for equality and community in our small Alabama town. Thanks again.…

  • A blog is a species

    A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web. … Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit…

  • Calling All Units

    Be on the lookout for Ray’s El Camino.

  • Dear Pamie, First, congratulations on

    [readermail] Dear Pamie, First, congratulations on your recent wedding. Good luck to you and stee; you deserve the best. Tell djb I would have totally taken his sublet if I, you know, lived in New York. [/readermail]

  • Use the Comments Feature For Good

    [readermail] pamie- i’m starting a “chick lit” (female authors ages 20-40) bookclub at my apartment complex, and “why girls are weird” is the first selection (mainly b/c i’ve already read it and can claim to have touched you- met you at the bookppl pitstop, bolted to recover from appendectomy). any suggestions on other books for…

  • (forwarded from my friend Andy)

    [readermail] Dear Andy, I am going to Chad. Yes, Chad. In Africa. It is one of the poorest countries in the world today and yet one of the most generous. I’m going and I need your help. I am going to Chad this April because over the last year 200,000 people have gone there before…