http://www.wordarc.com/rss/HoganRSS Feed for WordArc: Hogan's Articlesen-usWed, 10 March 2010 08:28:27 GMTWed, 10 March 2010 08:28:27 GMTWordArc RSS 2.0 GeneratorWordArc@wordarc.comWordArc@wordarc.comhttp://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2010/02/17/Utopia%3F%3A_A_World_without_the_Olympics_%28and_other_things%29According to one reporter, the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games are threatening to become . Others have called them the "glitch games". Whether or not these are the worst Olympic games ever (and how could one judge?), I'm fairly certain that the world... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2010/02/17/Utopia%3F%3A_A_World_without_the_Olympics_%28and_other_things%292010-02-17 18:45:21http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2010/02/17/Utopia%3F%3A_A_World_without_the_Olympics_%28and_other_things%29http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/07/23/Getting_away_with_murder_%28well%2C_potential_murder%29Ever smuggled things on to airplanes? Dangerous and illegal things? I have. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes not. Here are some examples: Years ago, on purpose, some weed. A couple times. In my checked bags. Not a problem. Another time, not o... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/07/23/Getting_away_with_murder_%28well%2C_potential_murder%292009-07-23 02:38:41http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/07/23/Getting_away_with_murder_%28well%2C_potential_murder%29http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/06/16/Oh%2C_MenIt’s the dark corner of the bar and I’m sitting on a black sofa across from my girlfriend Sylvia who’s on the other black sofa, texting somebody, probably Brandon, who hasn’t called her in a week and she’s pissed. We’re trying to stay... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/06/16/Oh%2C_Men2009-06-16 07:13:51http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/06/16/Oh%2C_Menhttp://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/03/10/On_The_MoonAs I watched the full moon last night, this is what I thought. I thought of writing a book called "A History Of The Moon". It would be about the various ways in which people have imagined (either in story or in science, although the two overla... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/03/10/On_The_Moon2009-03-10 15:34:21http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/03/10/On_The_Moonhttp://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/24/The_Opinionated_DicHey there, WordArcers (what are we called, anyway? And how is that pronounced? Looks as though it should sound like "word arse-ers", but of course I meant it like "word-arkers"). Anyway... Here is installment number one of my "Opinionated Dic(t... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/24/The_Opinionated_Dic2009-02-24 19:01:33http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/24/The_Opinionated_Dichttp://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/17/A_sea_of_vacant_laptopsI'm guilty of it, too. Right now, in fact. When I walk into a café and see rows of zombied-out laptop users, headphones further insulating them from the world of other people around them, I wish it all weren't so. Then again, I'm there to use... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/17/A_sea_of_vacant_laptops2009-02-17 21:15:19http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/17/A_sea_of_vacant_laptopshttp://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/12/Tinkering_with_the_Language_of_%22Random%22George Orwell (sorry Alamir, this is an old article) advocated for the “direct tinkering” of words because, as he said, “the slovenliness of our language makes it easier to for us to have foolish thoughts.” The word most in need of direct... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/12/Tinkering_with_the_Language_of_%22Random%222009-02-12 19:38:06http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/12/Tinkering_with_the_Language_of_%22Random%22http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/06/Loving_to_Hate_to_Love_Hating...etc.%C2%85I have a very ambivalent attitude towards advertising: I both love and hate it. On the one hand I can see how advertising is manipulative, deceptive, anti-social, slanted, based on greed and profit, a waste of public space, and therefore is genera... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/06/Loving_to_Hate_to_Love_Hating...etc.%C2%852009-02-06 19:36:57http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/06/Loving_to_Hate_to_Love_Hating...etc.%C2%85http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/03/Thinking_About_MustachesI don't usually write about fashion (mostly because I don't care about fashion), but I've already posted a piece about the skull-and-bones trend, so I thought I'd follow it up with a piece about another recent trend I've noticed: the return of the... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/03/Thinking_About_Mustaches2009-02-03 19:38:49http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/02/03/Thinking_About_Mustacheshttp://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/01/30/Against_AnonymityAn open-letter to everybody on this site: This just my opinion, but I think that if anyone wants to submit writing to this (or any) site, they should be required, or heavily encouraged, to also submit at least some autobiographical information.... Continue Reading at: http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/01/30/Against_Anonymity2009-01-30 19:31:55http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/01/30/Against_Anonymity