The Necessity of Scribbling

Compartmentalizing

2008-01-06T20:29:18Z

Last night, at dinner with friends who are, in one of the more peculiar twists of an American life, in the position of deciding between spending their next set of years in Alabama or Stockholm, I was reminded that I have a blog. Hello Blog. Sor...

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the invisible

2007-08-13T17:32:40Z

According to the global society of astronomists, we are here, frankly, because we have not yet split apart. An unidentified substance known as"dark matter," which currently takes about about a 1/4 of the solar system has been the sole entity kee...

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Damn it, Murphy.

2007-07-24T12:50:09Z

I read an article one time about the connection between solar storms and societal downward spirals. Apparently when you look back at history, 100 years back or more, and track the occurrence of storms on the surface of the sun, they correspond d...

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scribble, scribble, mustard stain, scribble

2007-07-03T01:20:34Z

I've decided that today you look like you may need to spend some time reading napkin stories. http://www.esquire.com/fiction/napkin-fiction/napkinproject I highly recommend one from the archives by Andrew Sean Greer (The hold-up). It has dire...

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I am Job

2006-09-12T21:20:06Z

I got a job I got a job I got a job I got a job. Not only that but i've composed a disney-esque melody to go along with my newly celebrated "I got a job" phrase allowing me to sing it internally throughout the day while doing menial tasks. Brush...

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Comebacks for English majors

2006-09-05T14:48:02Z

George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill had an infamous animosity. Shaw was a socialist and a vegitarian. And Churchill was, well, Churchill. They hated the very spit out of each other. Anyway the joke goes like this: George Bernard Shaw onc...

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September

2006-09-05T14:19:00Z

"You're what the autumn knew would happen After the collapse of primary color once the last absolutes were torn to pieces You could begin." (Adrienne Rich | November 1969) Sitting, on the last symbolic day of summer, waiting for the rain to st...

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Added to the list of things that may or may not change everything.

2006-08-21T12:54:42Z

The global society of astronomists went on record last week to amend that there are in fact 12 planets in our dear solar system, not nine. It was a nice little ancillary announcement held for the left column of the Post's health and science secti...

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