I’m usually resigned to throw up these entries: they mean I’m too busy/lazy/drunk to give each subject the thought-filled entry it deserves. But usually the tangential ideas I have to accompany said link dissipate when the chaos of modern living interferes. Alas. –Speech Al Gore [http:
This fall I’m going to once again forsake my pride (and laziness) and try to be a novelist. I’m going to do it a bit differently this year. Instead of subscribing to the strict regimen of daily word bursts, striving merely for a word count, I’m going
There’s a decent discussion on Plastic [http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=05/09/25/04062507;cmt=84] about a newly released list of the 100 most influential intellectuals [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3249]. Readers were asked to select their top 5. Here
…in the far left lane, with the music too loud and your head wrapped around a thought, creeping past ninety five? The engine is smooth enough the vehicle doesn’t vibrate, so you stroll past the neighboring cars, oblivous to your own reckless endangerment. That’s been me for a
I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb.