Dave Cullen: Conclusive Evidence of My Existence
Blog URL http://www.davecullenblog.com/
Tags TV, films, books, Columbine, pop culture, music, current events, history
Denver writer and author of New York Times bestseller COLUMBINE writes about pop culture, writing and the world at large.
Latest Blog Posts
- Not how I expected to get on Jeopardy! on Nov 17, 2009
Nov. 16, 2009, the day I really arrived: Hahaha. I started getting facebooks and emails late yesterday afternoon. I was giddy all night. It actually tickled me even more than making the Pub Weekly and Amazon best of 2009 lists.This was a dream I...
- Sarah making sense on Nov 17, 2009
So she's not dumb.Sarah Palin deserved all the heckling she got, in my opinion. She made an ass of herself. She seemed to revel in ignorance, and glorify it. But she turns out to be intelligent after all.I'm watching her right now on Oprah. I'm halfw...
- This cruel web: The death of the Washington Blade on Nov 16, 2009
The announcement came suddenly, apparently. From Washington City Paper's site this afternoon:Just hours ago, the staff of the Blade learned that its parent company, Window Media, had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, that the Blade was closed effective...
- Drama-queen for "center" on Nov 10, 2009
Pack journalism is a well-known evil in my sometimes-field, but my peers seem to pack even tighter on word usage. One of them hits on a hot new word, which seems to make them look intelligent or dramatic, and suddenly it's everywhere, constantly.Ugh.
- Obama's moving memorial speech at Ft. Hood on Nov 10, 2009
I got choked up watching that speech. Obama hit just the right notes, and carried himself just right: serious and a little subdued, yet resilient and strong.I broke my rule against watching profiles of the victims, because that can send me spiraling...
- Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? on Nov 7, 2009
The authors of the NurtureShock blog at Newsweek asked me to address that question as a guest blogger on their. site. My post is now on their blog and the Newsweek homepage here.I will follow up here with a related idea here soon. (Hopefully Saturday...
- I just learned I'm in a young city: only 500 years on Nov 6, 2009
I saw the punchline coming, though they didn't mean it as a joke. A filmmaker from Estonia was explaining what a young city Helsinki is, and I started chuckling while I asked "How young?" I knew it was going to be older than our entire country. Twice...
