And then it happened again, one of those planned conversations that go quickly awry, that leave you alone with rage, a clarifying rage in this instance, in which it all came back in harsh light: our fading marraige, the two New York years in which she withheld from me all kisses on the mouth, withheld these quietly and steadily and without ( Read more... )

Democratic Congresswoman Shot Dead in Tucsonexcerpt:: "U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was killed after being shot in the head in Tucson while holding a public event, the National Public Radio reported Saturday ( Read more... )

Husserlian appresentation is essentially a codification into the perceptual moment of the Socratic humility contained in Socrate's interpretation of the Oracle at Delphi. It is knowing what it is that you don't know: that the moon has another side, for example.

in the landscape of dustbunnies ( Read more... )

it's one of those things, you're walking along the south face, you look in and you're like, can i touch this, or is it mars? it's so viciously three dimensional it overwhelms any sense of perspective, and you're right on the cusp of some kind of fucking mystical moment when the fucking 67 year old hippie tour guide says something moronic like god ( Read more... )

( david mamet derides his employees )

midnightglobe's 5 star martini ( Read more... )

Turning Thirty ( Read more... )

Here I am, about to turn thirty, commuting home from my 9-5, and something hits me. I am singing along to El Scorcho, and I feel like nineteen, not twentynine. My heart feels open, like the future is a blue horizon ( Read more... )

completed applications for cornell, rutgers, and buffalo. only lehigh to go ( Read more... )