I decided early on that I would half-ass it this week. Pfah, I thought — which was weird, because why would anyone think something as audible as Pfah? — it’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Very few people are checking, updating, commenting or otherwise involving themselves in the so-called blogosphere (Slogan: A rapidly [...]
Now: A time for defining things. You reach a certain age and all that posturing you did in youth becomes almost regrettable. Those bathroom mirror declarations, full of equal parts hope and disdain. Disdain for mom, dad and every other old person who shuffled but did not walk, who looked but did not see, who [...]
I’m going to do another Top 10 Films list this year, of course, but it probably won’t get written until early-to-mid January. I’ve seen a good chunk of the more notable films (most recently: King Kong, The Baxter, Broken Flowers, Saving Face) but there are still a few I feel obligated to see before I [...]
The girl in the lane asks me a lot of questions about my life but I am hardly even there. I scan her groceries, bag them and try to keep an uneven rhythm so that the beep beep beep of the scanner doesn’t sound so much like a truck backing up. I’m drawing spirographs in [...]