I completely forgot to mention it ( Read more... )

It was weird. I realized, while I was in Skokie, that it was easy for me to feel at home there. A Chaim's Bakery here, a Kohn Shoes there, a bagelry here, a bagelry there, everybody getting ready for Pesach already, and of course, the restaurant I went to, Barnum and BagelThe decor was hideous, kitschy, faded gaudy circus colors and booths that had ( Read more... )

I'm going to go see a movie for the first time, God, since late January, I think. I'm going to go see Far from Heaven, which sounds really good, and besides that it's the only movie theater I can get to easily besides the one in Evanston. (It's about three blocks from the El downtown and about two blocks from where the Northwestern Intercampus ( Read more... )

I've been enjoying myself today. I feel so guilty. People are fucking dying, and I'm ENJOYING myself?

I got my iPod this morning, via Airborne Express, and then I went to lunch, came back, did my laundry (that took some time), and then did some reading.

I'm reading W.P. Kinsella's The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, a book with a voice and a theme as ( Read more... )

I know I'm not the only one, but I'd like to point out briefly that the leaders of the (theoretical) opposition to all of this idiocy have more combined military service than most of the people actually running the war ( Read more... )

I love this song. I've already posted about it once ( Read more... )

I almost bought a CD for the first time today. It's pitiful, I was at the Virgin on Michigan Ave. and I was browsing through their listen-to-clips-to-find-music catalogue and decided I wanted some R.E.M ( Read more... )

I decided to pick back up the metaphorical pen and write some today. What was the topic, you ask, breathlessly, my approximately four readers, anxious for a few words like morsels for a man starving. Or not ( Read more... )

I am liberated, done, for the next, well, slightly less than two weeks. (It is now thirteen days and 22 hours.) I'm of mixed feelings about it. I took my last final, in Spanish, at noon, and since 1 p.m. I've been free ( Read more... )

It sounds like, whether we want it or not, our so-called president has decided that we are going to war ( Read more... )