Frozen Toothpaste

Spend much time online, and you’re sure to find at least a few people telling you that reading and writing on the internet is like nothing you’ve ever done. They’ll tell you that readers don’t, well, read on the internet. Instead they skim and look for lists with bullet points. Oh, and pictures. They love […]

I can’t avoid the feeling that writing on this blog is an incredibly egoistic activity. I want to tell you about myself. About my opinions. About a story I dreamt up. All of it’s about me.
Now I can, and maybe should, concede that this is the nature of writing. That you can fundamentally only write […]

The idea of quantifying or charting writing — or any form of art for that matter — strikes most people as at best odd, probably unreasonable, and likely sterile and academic in the worst ways. To Dead Poets Society fans who remember the — literal — tearing apart of an essay that endeavored to do just this, how presumptuous such an effort can […]

Where it now stands, Frozen Toothpaste has been online at this address for a little more than two months. So perhaps it’s too early to do something that the President only does annually. But then, this blog is much younger than this country, and I don’t need primetime network TV space to give a State […]

A REtroVIEW (or simply retroview) is an idea I have been kicking around for some time. It is, at the lowest-level, a review of something old.
More importantly, it is a review of something old which has long-standing personal importance. That is, it’s a review of a book you always loved, a movie you always hated, […]