I’ll have to admit I don’t read a lot of books – just a few over and over again. I rarely make new book acquaintances, …
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Fear of Boredom
We have reason to be afraid of boredom. In Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game, it was boredom that drove General Zaroff to hunt men …
Brains and Snail Mail
Jeffrey McDaniels says it best in The Wild Cousin of Potpourri: …I have to confess, my salaciouslittle Einstein, sometimes when your head’s turned, I sneak …
It is a truth universally acknowledged
that Pride and Prejudice will always be my standard of comparison for all stories making use of the girl-can’t-stand-boy (or girl)/unresolved tension trope (sexual or …
Sunday morning comin’ down
One of the great mysteries in life: It’s so easy to wake up early in the weekends when nothing’s urgent on my to-do list, but …
42 divided by 2 was seven years ago.
21 was when I stopped counting. The year I ran from my thesis. It was the year I was mugged for the first time in …
Cap O’ Rushes
Small things, they get away more quickly than they used to. I feel like a kid who gets handed the joystick by the arcade’s top …
The Memex Project
I’m combining my two current projects – 25 MTW and LUE into one big hairy ambitious monster – The Memex Project. While the cellar door …