This is funny.

It appeared in McSweeney’s Gazette for Knowledge Workers with Ironic Sensibilites, though it could also have appeared in any number of boomer-oriented publications at any point during the past four decades, with only minor alterations. ‘Those damned kids don’t read’ is the most evergreen of all think-piece/satirical feature topics. To illustrate this point, wherever Twitter/blogging/etc are referenced in Lanham’s piece, replace said reference with any of the following: (more…)

I’ve been going through an internal debate lately about whether to keep Is Greater Than going–as any publisher (web or print), could have told me, the challenges of running a consistently-updated publication are many, and even moreso if you have any pretensions to offering a quality product. Said product’s quality is debatable, though the intensions certainly are for it to be so.

It’s hard to consider ending it, for any number of reasons: supportive readership, a great community of contributors, and my personal attachment to the project. I’d like to think that the concept behind it is inherently sound, even if the energy it demands is even more than I initially anticipated.

All the same, it’s exhausting, and the personal burnout has taken its toll. The site, which was running as many as six pieces weekly last fall and in the spring, has sputtered into an unsteady rhythm of one piece a week (if even that.) Burnout is certainly a factor, but there are other considerations going through my head: (more…)