Listening to the new Franz Ferdinand CD as I turn on my work computer and start getting into the customer service tool. How can it be that life is this awesome?
As election time swings round again, Leonard's ponderings from last year come back to relevance.
My wonderful friend Angel (who made my acquaintance in high school) and I have returned from a weeklong trip to Washington, DC and New York City. I deliberately took no pictures and bought few souvenirs, …
My attempt at an NYT-style headline. About to go to sleep in NYC for the last time on this trip. My new column is up.I don't remember the crash. I swore, wide-eyed, as I slammed …
I've traveled using three subway systems, Amtrak, a plane, a taxi, a privately owned car, and my feet this week.
My lips seem to chap more easily here. Do not take the yummy cornbread home from District Chophouse in DC and then warm a small slice of it in a microwave for two minutes. It …
Seth told me about a Sylvia Plath/Ted Hughes exhibit in New York City that features a Hughes poem in reply to a Plath poem on the topic of a rabbit trap. He did that sort …
One of the oddest and cruelest pranks I've ever heard of, and I wouldn't believe it had happened except for the length and depth of the story. In a frame taken from a McDonald's surveillance …
What with my mother visiting and my birthday passing and going to Andrew and Claudia's wedding and being invited to another one, hints have been dropped regarding nuptials that might affect me a bit more …
You have probably already read Joan Didion on the Schiavo case and watched Didion illustrate, but carefully leave unanswered, more precisely formulated questions about that particular tragedy and the end of life. That piece makes …
