I woke up on the first day of 2009 in a hotel room in Chicago. I was hungover. I was in a room with Mike and Tyler and I yelled a lot and made lots of bold statements about 2009! being! the! year ( Read more... )

Stuff I saw this summer for the first time ( Read more... )

What do you do on the day that one of your personal heroes dies? John Darnielle's been talking about cancer a lot. Really weirds me out. Reminds me of the day I accidentally told Lynsey Major that Vonnegut died when I thought she knew. I smoked some Pall Malls and stood outside our apartment feeling sad for a few hours ( Read more... )

This is my first year for fantasy football. Comment with your e-mail address (or mail me at arussell19@gmail.com) if you want in.

Also, my life has been pretty damn awesome lately. Hope yours has too.

My 11 year old cousin was here this week. He likes House, apparently. His one comment about it was that in the episode "The Jerk" he said:

"I don't want to grow up and be like him!"

It's been almost three months of The Single Life starring our hero. I used to post more than anyone I knew, now I try not to re-write the same post every few days ( Read more... )

.... if you've never driven to a casino at one in the morning on a whim because you and corey buran ran into two guys you kinda know at a bar...

...you should. just saying.

i debated back and forth if i should have left my old post up. decided not to.

everyone knows how I feel, anyway.

i'm totally fine except for one thing.

I was at work today all day and I composed this big thing about times in my life I've "redefined" myself internally. Times I decided to embrace things about myself I previously didn't like. The Alex Bad thing, a few times in high school. After freshman year of college when I decided to stop using the "depressed" tag ( Read more... )

i wake up early for no reason and force myself to go back to sleep.

i sleep for twenty seven more minutes.

i dream we are in new york. austin duck, who i have not seen in a long time, is there.

she is there.

we get on a bus. she sits on my lap. i tell her, "i didn't expect to see you again."

she smiles.

i wake up.

i'm alone.