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When did 15k a second get to be too slow? When did I get old enough to ask questions like that? So I have a few minutes while…
I’ve been drinking alcohol sporadically now for about 2 and a half months. The selection has actually been fairly limited, partly out of ignorance and partly out of…
i am happy.
There was a lot going on in my life this year, somewhat behind the scenes. (Though of course some of it leaked out. Damn reality.) Makes it hard…
Recently I told someone I had a crush on them. (no… not that person. nope, not them. No…. oh just give up, already!). Briefly, the night before I…
No one ever told me — while I was growing up in east bumpafuck, new yorkin the late 70s and early 80s — that I would one day…
I fell in love, last week. I was sitting in Starbucks over in Dupont on Tuesday afternoon, waiting for a client. I sat at the only space available,…
I have always liked wandering around in cities at ridiculous hours. Everything takes on a surreal quality. I used to work a semi-third shift at a newspaper, and would come home at 3, 4, or 5 in the morning, in a small town. And everything was quiet. It was when I first notice that night time tends to have no weather. Especially no wind. It’s a Twilight Zone episode, where you’re wandering around an abandoned city and nothings moving. My favorite memory of that job and those people happened when two of my coworkers, driving home from the same job, pulled over and started a snoball fight, in a suprisingly bright street at 3am.
For most of the week, it’s been incredibly humid. So thick you can smell the water in the air. And then yesterday the temperature dropped about 15 degrees…
I miss winter. Winter in places where it’s really winter, anyway. Winter should be snow in drifts you could lose small people in. Winter should be bone-chilling winds…
As I’m sitting here, I found a scar that I’d forgotten I had. It took me a while to even remember where it came from. It’s right at…
Right on schedule, my building manager was fired today. Third one we’ve been through since I moved in here. They have a warranty only good for 2 years….
There was a very ugly woman on the train tonight. She sat across from me as I tried to read Dandelion Wine. She wore a beautiful black dress….
I think it’s better when it snows in the big city. I’ve lived both in the city and in the boondocks. But here in the city, snow does…
The top strata of the “Recently-Read Pile”: Idoru by William Gibson All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson City Come a Walkin’ by John Shirley Beyond this Horizon, by…
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I like this time now. It’s been snowing a while, but there is just a light dusting covering everything, like confectioners sugar on a bakery cake. The remaining…
Mother Nature is a tease. It’s been over a week since the first deciduous trees sprouted leaves. But every year I know spring has come when the big…
It feels good to rant again.
I ring in the new year among fire sirens, pictures of drunk people yelling at a ball of fire, and wind gusts that could freeze my gonads into…