Swellville, You’re Killing Me
April 10, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
It’s irony week here in Swellville, which, ironically, coincides with Holy Week. Last year I went all penitent; this year, the you’re-gonna-be-sorry karma is coming to me. To wit:
1) There’s been a pretty much steady stream of teacher hate going around town since the beginning of the budget...
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John Updike, in 2 acts
February 22, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Life’s a shabby subterfuge
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
Those are lines from one of the last poems from John Updike.
The man is cold in his grave—he died, in case you’ve been under a particularly large boulder, nearly a month ago now. But damnit, I have two Updike sitings to...
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Just for the record…
January 21, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
The United States swore a new president in yesterday. You may have heard?
(photo ganked from The New York Times)
It’s silly to blog about the most-covered event since 9/11, so just skip this post; it’s only for my digital posterity (since T tried in vain to obtain some hard-paper copies of...
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Speechless: A Rilly Long Election Entry
November 17, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
I know, it’s been 13 days and I still haven’t written a thing.
Partly—mostly—it’s because lots and lots of better writers said it more eloquently already. All I can do is say “amen” to their “amens.”
And a little bit it’s also because, like many other people in the United States and maybe...
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Yes, It Is All About Me, Why Do You Ask?
September 29, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
* What if you won a prize [scroll way down to find Computerworld] and nobody noticed?
I faux-pout, or mostly faux-pout, as my co-workers were quite sweet in emailing their congratulations. Also, they are quite sick to death of that story. Even so, what crumbs fall from the table of...
