. A blogumn by Kalimba Bennett A couple of years ago I had a crisis come up, and I desperately needed the outside advice of a trusted confidant.  A creative partner asked me to fire someone I was very close friends with from a project we were all working on together.  It was a terrible [...]

Okay, Zacki from Tall Glass of Shame once again guessed that Friday’s random lyric was from one of my favorite 80′s songs of all time, “If You Were Here” by The Thompson Twins (aka – the song that’s playing in the background when Molly Ringwald and Jake Ryan kiss over her birthday cake). And today’s [...]

. I don’t know how long I can survive in captivity. –David Gessner So I’ve never read or heard of David Gessner (picutred) before, but he wrote this really fascinating article in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about being a former full time writer that teaches writing to college and/or grad students. Now, until a [...]

1:00 pm on a Friday. Quittin’ Time, right? Not quite yet, unfortunately. But here are some fun things to tide you over when the boss isn’t looking. First of all, if you’re looking for a new job, or even thinking about getting a new job, why don’t you start updating your resume now? One week [...]

Now, I’m not a fashion plate or anything, but I am fierce. And I am nerdy. So even I was like, these Obama women T-Shirts are just not cutting it. Oh, I know that you can get very cute T-shirts all over. There’s been pretty much an explosion of kick-ass Obama shirts on the streets. [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman. I may be threatening to enter uncharted nerd territory by writing about a book that explores the behind the scenes machinations of the Bush administration for the second week in a row, but this newly released tome is the [...]

So yesterday Monique from New Jersey guessed correctly that KRS-One was behind Thursday’s Lyric. Today, in honor of me deciding decisively to finish the second draft of my book, I’m using a song that’s featured prominently in it. Which English pop group put forth this drippy relationship metaphor: The rain water drips through a crack [...]

Man, whatta week, whatta week. We had the biggest day on record so far, which means more and more people are finding their way to Fierce and Nerdy. We’ll make the world a fierce nerd yet. So, the big goal over the next two weeks is to get back to my first (publishable) novel, the [...]

. A Proof of Nerd ID by Charles Cron Thoughts to think on as you go about your day During the opening night of Samuel Johnson’s 1749 play, Irene, audiences cried “Murder!” after seeing the main character strangled onstage.

. A small Miranda Story (as written by Aimee Swartz) Carla began drawing on a fake mole when she was getting ready for school. “A beauty mark,” she explained, as if I had asked. “Sometimes the littlest things make the biggest difference.” Each morning, she used a black felt-tip marker to make a perfectly round [...]