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Howlin’ Smurf
Howlin’ Smurf did actual time. Howlin’ Smurf knows what it’s like to count the days until you get out. The other Smurfs didn’t understand Howlin’ Smurf’s pain. Right when he got out and came home, it...
View ArticleSome pitches
It’s like “Riptide” but instead of a houseboat, two dudes live on a tour bus and fight crime. It’s a re-boot of “Raging Bull”, except Jake LaMotta isn’t a wife-beating boxer, he’s a family man union...
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Dream of the hollow
I had a dream that I was walking around my parent’s farm in the middle of the night and wandered down to Boyd’s Hollow Road, where my brother and I used to catch the school bus in the mornings. It was...
View ArticleIn the days when you were hopelessly poor, I just liked you more (part 2)
[part 1 was here] This phrase still pops into my mind uninvited all the time. It’s not that you were a better person. It’s not that you’re a bad person now that you’re comfortable-to-well-off. It’s not...
View ArticleTrue tales of the mid-aughts
Back in 2005/2006 I used to check my RSS reader to see if I had written anything on my blog. I was always sad if I hadn’t and excited if I had. Then I would read it in my RSS reader. Then I would click...
View ArticleHow to stop terrorism one person at a time
On 9/11 we were 4 days away from our wedding. Late morning when we were on the phone with my family, my grandmother asked “well, are you still having the wedding?” And Terri and I both looked at each...
View ArticleUniqueness
I think that if you have an intention of living for more than 20 years beyond now you have to psychologically prepare yourself for the possibility that you may meet a 100% perfect genetic clone of...
View ArticleDeep-fried tofurkey 2012
In case you were curious, my 2004 post about deep-fried tofurkey is still in the top 20 Google results, though that means that many brave souls have attempted this and lived to write about it. We will...
View ArticleThe Rwanda Pinochle
Making dinner in the kitchen with T, who’s playing a bunch of music released this year so she can do her “best of the year” lists (and she hasn’t been keeping up since SXSW, so she’s catching up). I...
View Article4 Things I want want to leave in 2012
4 Things I want to see the end of in 2013: Web articles that are structured as lists Web articles that are structured as lists and formatted as slideshows Web articles that are structured as lists and...
View ArticleHome?
Lately the kid has been saying things like “Daddy, I want to go home!” While we’re home. The only place he’s ever lived. And he keeps saying this. This makes me thinks of three things. First: They...
View ArticleGiant proportions
Here’s a random thought for graduate work in some discipline that probably doesn’t exist (some combination of art history, literature, sociology, psychology, folklore, maybe comparative religions, but...
View ArticleGiants in those days
You know, I update this blog for the first time in months, and then go about emptying the dishwasher and catching up on my podcasts for the first time in weeks, and something magic happens. And that...
View ArticleSmall wisdoms for Saturday morning
When T & I were gardening more seriously I read a book — can’t remember what— that said “gardening is easy; you just need to learn to think like a plant”. It’s true of many things. Once a colleague...
View ArticleAnd we’re back
Even though I have not been blogging much (okay, any) these days, I was horrified to notice a couple of weeks ago that I had let my registration lapse on realfake.org. Happily, I was able to get it...
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Morse, painting, and loss
You’ve probably heard of Samuel F. B. Morse in the context of his contributions to telegraphy. I first learned that he started out life as a painter during my sophomore year in college. I was editor of...
View ArticleReading TV
Last year when Netflix started releasing whole seasons of shows at once, the term “binge watching” came on the scene. I’m not a fan. It makes it sound somehow unhealthy. You wouldn’t call reading two...
View ArticleProbably moving, but…
Have been feeling the need to blog a lot these past few months, but am both out of the habit and am somehow feeling like I’ve come to the end of this particular notebook and have been craving a new one...
View ArticleWanderlust, distraction, quiet
I’m reading Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines now. I’ll spare you the several things that give me pause about his whole enterprise, but this is a passage worth reading, and I think it holds up well even...
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