It was my intent to write an article this weekend for your entertainment or edification, but I will confess that I do not have any good ideas at the moment. I made a solemn oath to LiveSpace TwitBookicus, god of self indulgent web-pages, that I would not post anything in this space that seemed to gaze even in the general direction of my navel. I’m ( Read more... )

We’re back! After a multiple-year extended hiatus, this journal is being brought back to life. Yes! I have returned from my sabbaticawesome vacation to snatch this blog back from that slavering jawbeast, obscurity.

Of course, this journal was always obscure to begin with! So perhaps I will have to get cozy with the jawbeast instead. I do actually ( Read more... )

Office life has a strange sense of dread about it. It's nothing you can place your finger on, but it's pervasive. Everybody comes to the job with their own tensions, stresses, and secret desires, and it all mixes together in a kind of heady perfume of fear and loathing. Nobody acknowledges it until the day that somebody goes off and delivers all ( Read more... )

Hokay, so. Been away from the journal for a while, coping with unemployment and finding a steady job. That's working out pretty well for the moment so let me entertain you with a topic that's been on my mind for a while: religion!

Now I'm not going to tell you about my experiences with the Hare Krishnas, or as a pagan, or my recent inquest into the ( Read more... )

So in an effort to keep things lively, Julie and I cooked up another one. This is a joint effort- the writing is more authentic but the situation is more outlandish. Updates on the "Suitors" will soon follow, I'm sure.

http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/w4m/590785006.html

Southern Girl Seeks Gentlemen Callers

I remember church on Sundays, when I was a ( Read more... )

It's time I got back into the habit of writing on a daily basis. I've advertised around a little bit for this journal, so if you've come here looking for something to read, I shall not disappoint.

The first piece I am going to post is an essay written last week for the New Yorker. I didn't feel it was strong enough to publish, but I thought you all ( Read more... )