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?

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(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...

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Known Ho and Social Climber

September 22, 2008

Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages

No, this isn’t a Swellville entry, tho’ Lord knows there are plenty of both in the world’s most perfect town (hos and social climbers, I mean).

No, the title of this entry is an homage to one of my favoritest pieces in the Fall 2008 issue of Brain,Child Magazine, parts of which (but not all)...

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