Interesting article from Mother Jones: Forgetting Private Lynch.
Ack! I was really disappointed in my reading last night. Came off really flat, zero energy. Got thrown a little by the need to pick my last piece ahead of time for the light cues. I usually like to flow with what comes before me, finalizing what I’ll read based on what’s already come. Between
Been busy actually working today, forgot how much time I’d been wasting on personal stuff the past few weeks! Tonight’s the Pepátian: Jump It Up reading in the Bronx and I’m really looking forward to it. There’s apparently 14 different artists on the bill and I’ve got 7 minutes to perform! What do you read
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBEN!!!!!!!!! America got it right! 50.24% of them anyway.
Apartment update: Talked to the super this afternoon and he says the owner was happy with our application and that they’ll be meeting tomorrow to discuss it. He thinks the apartment is ours. Judging from the fact that it’s been empty for five months (!) and there’s not a single latino name on the doorbell
It’s official. I’ve stepped down from the louderARTS Project and from running a little bit louder. Writing the email was one of the toughest things I’ve done in a while, not for any second-guessing but for getting it right. No bitterness, no anger, no potshots. No need for any of that. I did ask that
This is Not Goodbye
Last night was a lot of fun. A bit too much, maybe, as my hungover ass stayed home today! Shappy beat me 3-2 in the head-to-head. I won the Star Wars round (!) and the imitation round, he took the other three. Every round was split 3-2 except for the imitation where I won all
It takes a clean break to heal right
Could it be that Spring is finally here for real? It’s beautiful outside. Grabbed lunch from the little Caribbean trailer out front – jerk chicken, rice and peas and plantains with a mint iced tea – and sat over in Battery Park to eat. The tourists are out in full force and there was a
Missed this one on Saturday: Your Daily Horoscope for May 17, 2003 Dear Guy, No doubt you are a well-respected member of the community, Guy, and you must feel some responsibility for maintaining the image you project. This pride in yourself is a sign of your integrity, but it may also cause you problems. You
ser·en·dip·i·ty
ser·en·dip·i·ty the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for. Omar is a bad man. Bad. Appealing to the geek in me, he dropped the idea of a fan fiction-type project in my head – writing our own versions of comic books online – and it’s like the time I was