My new column debuts today in Metro Weekly, continuing a long string of puns based on my name. Hopefully "Buggery" won't snag me in too many filters -- kind of like when I created a guitarist in Rock Band named "Bugger" and the game scolded me to choose something classier. But I like it and that's what counts.
Although if someone out there wants to buy it for their own publication, I'm willing to consider a new name that doesn't refer to the favorite pastime of English boarding school students. Hey, I'm flexible.
It's been a few years since I had a regular column, all the back to "Bugged Out" and, before that, "The Back Room." Now I'm older and not particularly wiser, and the blossoming of the web has totally spoiled on writing for word count. Blogs are wonderfully self-indulgent, as long or as short as you want them. Print columns are rigid -- you will write 725 words whether you need to or not. My solution's always been to just go back in and stick in silly jokes until the word count is where I want it (viz. the English boarding school joke above).
They don't teach you that in journalism school.
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