I’m on my third day as a San Francisco resident. I thought about writing a thing before leaving, in the generic-life-update-for-a-blog category, but I figure the only people who look at this thing (well, who might look at it if it ever had anything new) are people who already knew I was moving to SF, […]
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Vergangenheitsbewältigung might be my favorite German word. Lots of jokes about the German language having a (normally long) word for everything, and, well, it’s true more often than not. “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” means “a struggle to come to terms with the past.” I’m thinking about it today because it’s the five year anniversary of the death of […]
Getting older isn’t as confusing as getting older
[disjointed entry alert: sort of writing this one on assignment, as it may be] People have accused me of living in the past. This is simply not true — I just don’t appreciate the present until it’s become the past. I think it started when I was around 15. I have (had?) very few memories of […]
The Sorrows of Young Whatever
Everything ever said about the relativity of time — be it serious or jokey or wrong — is right. Short expanses of time can be unendurably long, long stretches of time can pass by without notice, and now lasts forever while the past and the future never existed and never could or will. I whiled […]
2009 was a pretty straightforward year
…according to last.fm, anyway. my top 20 artists for the year: depeche mode pet shop boys brian eno coil the cure new order peter gabriel einstürzende neubauten the orb b! machine muslimgauze the church current 93 and one front 242 de/vision the the project pitchfork david sylvian covenant part of me is a little let down that it […]
damn, it was a good day (micah’s end-of-the-quarter remix)
RIT has been whomping my ass this year, and i respectfully, gleefully, doff my hat to it and wish another academic year adieu (well, temporarily, as i’m taking summer classes). ergo, i awoke late today and had a great day. for two hours, i read the newest novel by my favourite author: good to be god […]
because i feel like enumerating
foods in my kitchen i have more than one variety of: tea: 11 varieties mustard: 8 varieties hot sauce: 5 varieties knäckebröd: 4 varieties barbecue sauce: 3 varieties (and tamarind sauce) hummus: 2 varieties a band i have never listened to and i’ve always felt guilty about it: yo la tengo a band i have never listened to and i’ve never felt […]
he butled
well, now i can scratch it off my list — i met a man who was once a butler to the queen. tonight there was an event at school, a dinner about etiquette (as part of the business world). this fellow, john bourdage, gave a talk and showed us which fork to use (essentially). through the […]
the inspiration is too complicated to explain
love is like trying to harness the tides to power a printing press.