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I recalled this so fully that I saw the cats, one with a Hitler mustache, at the window. When I came across this bit while reading Humboldt’s Gift, I put a little note in the margin because I thought it was funny. Today, unfortunately, I had some time on my hands while waiting for my […]
Wow. So yesterday’s post was #500. I guess that’s fine that my 500th post would e a long, quasi-incoherent blathathon about a book I read. That’s pretty cool. th efirst post was back in August of 2004. In August of 2004, I was living in Houston and I was writing for what I endearingly called […]
This week’s leisure time was spent in hot pursuit of the last page of Saul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize winning Humboldt’s Gift. Why bother mentioning the prize? Not because I care much for it- the only literary award I’m interested in is the Caldecott medal, but because the eponymous character says this on the third page: […]
So I’ve had my computer turned off for one day and John Updike dies. I figured I could go 36 hours or so without being in constant contact with all the latest stuff, but I was wrong. You unplug for just a day and something terrible happens. My sister told me yesterday on the phone […]
Downtown. # At the Billy Goat, drinking darks. # Karyn’s Cooked for dinner. Vegan and only 10 bucks. # And back on the bus. Unrelated: I found 60 bucks behind my driver’s license!! # Things that aren’t awesome: clogged drains, cheap pipe snakes, old, brittle gaskets. # Guess where I’m drinking coffee… # “Why is […]
Last night: Pictures and (hopefully) video after…
This week I decided to explore some uncharted territory- the graphic novel. My suspicion is that a lot of people make the leap from comics to graphic novels. I’ve never been much into comic books, so it’s probably not that shocking that I never got around to graphic novels either. That said, for a long […]
Apparently the video I posted this afternoon was disgusting, so I’m getting it off the main page. I still think it’s awesome though. You should check it out.
Holy canoli, today was bloggarrifficc! # The guy who discovered Uranus wanted to call it George. Man, that would have been awesome. Jupiter, Saturn, George, Neptune, Pluto. # -4 at the bus stop. # Maybe I’ll only do this when I’m at the coffee shop. The music is really quiet. #