Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: January 2014

  • A letter to Mark Cuban

    I was going through old mail and found this letter I wrote to Mark Cuban at some point last year. I never got a response. I think my goal was to keep writing mail to him until I got a response or was told to stop, but like most projects, I lost interest.  Here it…

  • Ode to a 2008 Toyota

    I bought a new car yesterday.  I didn’t plan on it, but I walked away with a 2014 Prius C Two, with 12 miles on the odometer. I’d originally planned on getting my old car fixed so it would pass emissions, because the wiring was messed up after my 2009 wreck. But when the service…

  • 2013 in review

    It’s January 4th, which might make it too late to write one of those year-in-review posts, but I will try anyway.  I’ve been insanely busy getting ParagraphLine.com going, and you should be reading that, too.  But I thought I’d take a second to make a humblebrag list of what I got done 2013. First, I…