I’m hitting a rough patch with the stuff I’m working on right now, so I find myself spending a great deal of time sitting back in my chair at Starbucks, staring off into space, pretending to ruminate. This on the theory that faux-rumination will lead eventually to real rumination which will lead, inexorably and inevitably, [...]
We went to see Fountains of Wayne at American University on Friday. It was a blast. They played great, sounded great, and seemed like a bunch of likable, hypertalented guys who were genuinely happy to be on stage playing their music. Their performance pretty much cemented my belief that they are the perfect pop band: [...]
Doonesbury is doing a really powerful series this week about one of its major characters, B.D., who’s wounded in combat in Iraq. Worth checking out.
The House of Representatives, in its appointed role as Protector of Decency, Goodness and Morality, is considering a bill that would further clarify the ban on the use of the Seven Deadly Words and Phrases on broadcasts in this country. It is only a matter of time before these bans are extended to the blogosphere, [...]
It’s recently come to my attention that, one of these days, I’m going to die. Which isn’t to say that I’ve become paranoid about it. I haven’t. I don’t look in the bathroom mirror every morning and see the Grim Reaper peering over my shoulder, idly tapping the haft of his scythe against the palm [...]
I caught the last twenty minutes of Bush’s press conference last night, and, as usual, found myself wondering why I’ve been stuck in this nightmare for so damn long, and what exactly I’m going to have to do to wake up. You’d think that, with three years of practice, he’d be able to put two [...]
In the guise of an editorial about the recent outrage in a San Francisco art school, where a student was expelled for writing an unpleasant and violent short story, Michael Chabon has written a powerful defense of the Bill of Rights, and of the fucked up stew of emotion, uncertainty and fear that is the [...]
I have just recently discovered that George W. Bush, in preparing to step into his new role as President of the United States, played a “training” text adventure game called PRESIDENT. It was commissioned and designed by his staff, in the hopes that it would help him to understand the unique challenges he would soon [...]
I am exactly 44 pages into Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird and it is already, by far, the best book about writing I’ve ever encountered. I haven’t read any of her novels, but I plan to, I almost have to, because how could someone who knows so much about her craft — who really really [...]
This poor blog has recently been beset by a veritable locust plague of comment spam, all from one company that’s apparently hawking cut-rate pharmaceuticals. I was just about to go in and delete them all when I paused to actually read the stuff they were posting. Here’s the first note I saw: In a fog-enshrouded [...]
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