The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: dumb lists

  • 1/9

    Been hard to write this week for obvious reasons. I guess I blew that “post every day this year thing” about five days in. Started writing a big diatribe about that, but I can’t get into it right now. Maybe later. I did not step foot out of the apartment for about nine days. I…

  • a series of tubes

    Four posts into this “post every day” nonsense and I’m back on the dumb list kick. That mall post yesterday broke me. It’s by far the longest thing I’ve written on here. I think it’s twice as long as my 9/11 post. I briefly fell down a k-hole reading about pneumatic mail tubes. Paris created…

  • Ten Things

    I had this recurring dream that I somehow inherited an old Corvette (mid-70s, the bad years) and was trying to rewire the stereo because it worked when the car was running, but not when it was shut off or in accessory mode. I seem to remember having to fix the same thing in my first…

  • A Stupid Nostalgia Listicle (Or, You Won’t Believe these 15 Things From The Nineties That Will Help You Lose Weight That The IRS Doesn’t Want You To Find Out About!)

    I have been binge-watching the show West Wing lately, because S has never seen it, and I watched a lot of the first few seasons until it got stupid, back when I was supposed to be writing the follow-up for Rumored to Exist, which never happened. So I remember bits and pieces of the show, and…

  • Randy Orton and the Loins of Passion

    It is time for another bulleted-list update. I was recently so bored that I rewrote the first three pages of an erotic story, retitled it as “Randy Orton and the Loins of Passion” and submitted it to a small press for consideration.  The story was an erotic coming-of-age tale involving Randy Orton, his father Cowboy…

  • Sycophantic Mezmerization

    I have been writing a lot, which means I have not been writing here.  That happens.  It makes me wonder what the hell I should be writing here, especially since blogging is essentially dead and I should just be posting pictures of my cats.  (Here is a picture of one of my cats.  I have…

  • Another Friday giant-list update

    It’s Friday, and I have no concrete ideas for a larger update, yet have all of these smaller bits and pieces, so here goes: I try to take notes of all of my ideas, but 90% of the time, they make no sense later.  I did this at some point in the middle of the…

  • Listicles Are A Window Into The Soul

    I am stuck in that “what do I post here” mode lately, so it’s time for another big long list of random stuff. I’ve been re-reading Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs, a book I think I haven’t read since 1995.  It has not aged well, for two reasons.  One is that the technology is obviously obsolete.  It talks…

  • Fifty shades of another stupid list

    I’m in one of those phases where I have so much stuff to do and so many different projects, I can’t really sit down to any one of them.  And this blog is one of them, and I always want to update, but have nothing cohesive to say, just a bunch of random stuff, so…

  • 5 Reasons Posts That Are Lists Get More Traffic

    I’ve been editing a book, or maybe a chunk of a book, that’s mostly composed of blog posts from earlier this year, and one of the harder parts of this (aside from all of the typos) has been retitling the posts when they are reincarnated in short story format. As both a goof and a…