So I think there's a trend going on. A few weeks back (the night that Clay Buccholz pitched his no-hitter), I was with tolchocky and Seth at The People's Republik in Cambridge. We were enjoying our respective drinks when I noticed a young woman reading Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. It was sort of inexplicable. Even I don't bring books to ( Read more... )

I've already mentioned, complained, and read too much into my folks initially bringing me my textbooks and leaving the fiction at home. This was remedied some weeks back when Mother and Sister came out here in the new Prius (!), its trunk stuffed with Christmas presents and the books I had been missing.

Neal Stephenson's The Confusion has been ( Read more... )

The New York Times warned me, a few days ago about the terrible fate facing former college athletes: "disimprovement." The theory goes that athletes, without the extrinsic motivation of coaches, teammates, and competitions, will stop exercising and proceed to become bloated shadows of their former selves. Shadows that yell at televised sports ( Read more... )

I got a job! Well, not really, but I was going through craigslist in search of a job and I found a posting for "PAID EXTRAS - WED. 6/21." So I replied and now Sister and I are going to be in a 30-person crowd as part of a television advertisement. My acting career continues to thrive ( Read more... )

Have GF now. That is all.

Actually, it is not. First, apology for uncommunicativeness. Was a symptom. And arose from curiosity to see just how the rumor-mill grinds. Second, keep comments un-tacky. No congratulations!

Also, Tanglewood was awesome. Two shows. Met buzzardsbay. Sorry for awkward. Shostakovich Five! Beethoven Violin Concerto! Brahms Three! ( Read more... )

There was going to be a post last night, more bitter than drunken, really. But I didn't get around to finishing it and I feel no need to.

I had finished Demian a day or too ago so, if completed, it would have featured much bemoaning of the herd and drunkenness-as-escape and other-people-as-escape ( Read more... )