(I already had a post called “The New Black” — it’s obviously something I’m interested in, as long as it has something to do with the old black)
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A while back I had a conversation with a pretty famous sociologist (long story, but I had to pick her up at her hotel and drive her to [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 27, 2009
The New New Black
July 26, 2009
#1
Not necessarily doing 52 in 52 again this year, but this is the first book I’ve finished since July 1:
Pretty excellent. Gaitskill’s characters are psychologically complex and realistic. She pays more attention to her characters’ emotions, motives, and interpersonal nuances than most of us pay to our own. In a non-judging way, each story gets [...]
July 24, 2009
Blog Slowly Being Replaced by Facebook Status Updates
Ugh. Really? I gave up Facebook and MySpace a year or so ago, only to wonder about friends in England and a ten-year class reunion and start drinking the virtual Kool-Aid again. Things you may have missed:
Okay, there’s sort of only one main thing that isn’t completely banal, which is that I broke my toe. [...]
July 21, 2009
Perspective
Only two parts of my day were crappy. And even those parts weren’t particularly crappy, and they are mostly only crappy at all because of my reaction to them, not because of anything that actually happened. So by the time I got home, those two little, pretty-much-inconsequential things (both mistakes on my part) were so [...]
July 19, 2009
All We Ever Really Need from Each Other
“Please don’t forget me. Make it easy on me, just for a little while. You know I think about you. Let me know you think about me, too.”
July 13, 2009
And Then What
I ran across this opinion piece in the New York Times today, in which several people state their opinions on whether roadside memorials should be banned. I can see the other side, but I for one appreciate the miniature monuments — they haunt and remind, and hopefully pull us out of our chronic driver dissociation.
The [...]
July 9, 2009
Life Lessons from Bugs with Creepy Names
Sometimes I’m so afraid of making mistakes I become paralyzed, and I don’t make any decisions at all, or at least not any that can’t be taken back. This isn’t just in one realm of my life, but in pretty much all of them. It even affects this blog!
I’m branching out. I started training for [...]
