Today was a miserable soggy day made for naps. The bookshelves are cleared and the desk and entertainment center have been emptied. Boxes are beginning to fill the front room. I think I accidentally boxed up my Carmex, which was the only thing in this freaking place that did not need to find its way into a box. This time next week I’ll be sleeping in a new place for the first time, listening to…
There’s not much, really, I can say that won’t be said elsewhere with a finer degree of eloquence and relevance. Thirty-three years ago today, the Supreme Court recognized that a woman’s pregnancy and health is a private matter, and that government intervention into that relationship is unconstitutional because it invades her personal liberty and freedom, violating the Fourteenth Amendment. Today we don’t know if the two newest justices (obligatory if Alito is confirmed here) truly…
Phil and I both have keys to our respective apartments. My leasing dude told me that I could paint as long as I cleared the color with him. That was so not what he should have told me, because now I am on it. I jump at any chance to make my life more complicated. Phil’s new place is in a very cute area of Cooper-Young, just a short walk away from Goner Records and…
I am morbidly fascinated by this story about websites where you can review prostitutes. I mean escorts. These sites are sort of like MTSU Review, only with less handjobs. Oh, snap. But seriously. I’m learning so much about the depressing sex habits of the financially priveleged and the women who rent their bodies out to them to send themselves to grad school … or whatever. Many men make a lifestyle out of patronizing escorts. They…
In the future, it will be assumed you are asking to be raped unless you wear the standard “Don’t rape me” uniform I don’t know why I didn’t write about this earlier. It made it all the way to Broadsheet with nary a peep from me. Shame on me. Double shame on me since I even laid out a photo of one of these scary devices in our Daybreak column a week or more ago,…
Ah, Martin Sargent. You have a name that sounds like it was ripped from a cartoon or a comic book. But you have provided the funny today. I’ve always been a diehard PC guy. And I swear, until recently, I’ve never touched a Mac in my life. But ever since this year’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, I’ve been feeling kind of funny inside. Different. To put it bluntly, I can’t stop thinking about getting…
Friday’s Feast: AppetizerAbout how many times per day do you check your email?I keep it open but minimized at work, so I’m alerted any time I get a new message. That means I check my mail every time I get a new message, which can be anywhere from 10 times a day to 50. SoupIf you had the money to collect something really valuable, what would it be?I’m not really into collecting anything, except in…
I’m up late, working on a new layout for my mom’s site, and I’m thinking about how weird it is knowing that I will be sitting in some other apartment in just two short weeks. I’m not what you’d consider prepared, though I guess I’m pretty close. I’ve got my place, Phil’s got his (or will Saturday when he puts down a deposit). He’s already taken stuff down off the walls and packed his books…
Veterinarians have determined that at any given moment, Felix is thinking 700 thoughts simultaneously, and all of them involve causing trouble. No, this post isn’t about me. Explicitly. Phil took Gonzo to the vet today to see why his stomach is so swollen. And the vet says nothing is wrong; he’s just fat, lazy, and bored. So that’s that. As for Felix, well, his problems seem to have eclipsed Gonzo’s. Where Gonzo is fat, lazy,…
The other night I read Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” (the short story) and was really surprised at its length (incredibly short) and its sweeping pace. It pretty much captures the life of Ennis Del Mar from late adolescence to late middle age in less than 40 pages 55 pages. And it is quite beautiful, though I would argue less beautiful than the movie simply by nature of the author’s reliance on realistic verbal descriptions of…
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