Set This House in Order
Finished Matt Ruff’s Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls yesterday. Absolutely amazing! He’s one of a handful of writers I want to BE. A description of the plot would be inadequate because his work is so layered and full of texture that it wouldn’t do it justice. Kind of like explaining procreation
Cause the whole, world, loves it when you don’t get down (bah da, bah bah bah-da da) And the whole, world, loves it when you make that sound (bah da, bah bah bah-da da) And the whole, world, loves it when you’re in the news (bah da, bah bah bah-da da) And the whole, world,
George Clooney’s tattoos in From Dusk Til Dawn are among my all-time favorites. I got my first tattoo well into my Twenties – a stylized bat, red and black, on my right upper arm – back in 1995 or 1996. Somewhere in Toms River after getting lost trying to find Seaside Heights where I’d never
Dubya is no Reagan
The front page of today’s Daily News proclaims: TEAR DOWN THAT PRISON, inferring a ridiculous comparison of Bush’s speech last night and Reagan’s infamous “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” speech at the Berlin Wall. I wondered last night whether or not the US had continued to use any of the German concentration camps once
Five things I want for Father’s Day: 1. Fool On the Hill 1ST Edition Signed, from Powells.com 2. Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, and anything else on my Amazon.com wish list. 3. Gift Card from Midtown Comics. 4. A 2004 Mini Cooper S. 5. El Nopalito Boutique & Restaurant in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. (pictured)
On Saturday, I lost my glasses on Nitro (the roller coaster at Great Adventure), a fitting epilogue to the tough lesson that was Friday’s watershed louder than words show. I had low expectations for the Friday slot to begin with, but twenty-one paid in the audience – the majority of whom were supportive friends/co-workers from
Late-day Randomness…
What’s your personality? You are an ENTP! As an ENTP, you are Extraverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving. This makes your primary focus on Extraverted Intuition with Introverted Thinking. This is defined as a NT personality, which is part of Carl Jung’s Rational (Knowledge Seeking) type, and more specifically the Inventors or Visionary. As a weblogger,
Yummy Sandwich.
Yummy Sandwich. Yummy Sandwich. Yummy Sandwich. Yummy Sandwich. Yummy Sandwich. [I want to make sure this gets picked up by any Google searches for these ignorant bastards.] Yummy Sandwich is one of those “take-in” lunch services that corporations sign on with to keep you from wasting their time by leaving your desk and going outside
louder than words: tweaked
New York City at night is a beautiful thing. I love walking the streets, breathing in cool, crisp air and not having to deal with the obstacle course of confused and starry-eyed tourists that clog the sidewalks during the day. As dive bars go, few can match Rudy’s on Ninth Avenue up in Hell’s Kitchen.
Formerly known as Pumpkin Seeds
1. Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican is without question the best autobiography I’ve ever read. Her writing is vibrant, fluid, and concise. Her evocation of life in PR as Americanization slowly seeps in is deadeye brilliant, and her transition to life in the margins in Brooklyn is heart-rending. She never uses a hammer