January 31st, 2006
Among things that I was not thinking about last night when I went to bed were out-of-state weddings other people I know have attended and ineffective raingear I have owned. Instead, I was thinking about procrastination and Rome (Geoff Dyer book I was reading), the effects of slow, loud guitar played backwards over ethereal [...]
January 28th, 2006
The events of the past 24 hours have been rife with life lessons. Observe:
Last night Rebecca and I went to hear our favorite band play. When we first came to know this band, we called them The Only Band In the World, not realizing the homage to the Clash we were making in [...]
January 19th, 2006
…Or, Writer’s Block, College Admissions, Migraine Headaches and The Music Indsutry
1:00 a.m. Give up on the words that are blurring in front of me. Give up on the simple words I’ve tried to read and write to coax myself into reading and writing more complicated ones. Give in to desire for [...]
January 10th, 2006
Am I the only person on the internet who uses a serif font?
My own personal War on Christmas has been reprinted at Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood.
For a slightly less thrilling fracas than the last one, my latest Huffington Post, “A Patriot (At Gunpoint)” is here.
Comments, as always, are amusing. Some wish to spit [...]
January 9th, 2006
It’s hard being a neurotic ecstatic, because while you are dancing wildly in the shower you are bothered by the faint but nagging fear that you could slip, hit your head on the tile and drown in two inches of water. Persuing a state of ecstasy involves striking a fine balance between abandon and [...]