Posts Tagged ‘malaise’

Damn myopia.

21Jan09

As I was writing today’s post, I had a vague sense that I’d written about Steven Chu already, but shook it off. I guess I wasn’t terribly redundant, but for God’s sake, I feel awfully dumb about slacking off and then writing a post on a previous topic.
There are other things I’ve been planning [...]


Costume ideas.

17Oct08

I’ve developed a peculiar dread of the holiday known as Halloween. A few years ago I went out three nights in a row with three different costumes, and ever since I’ve been convinced it’s an overblown evening that ends up being a source of stress more than fun. Nothing will ever compare to the epic [...]


That’s not even the worst of it. We lost David Foster Wallace. The economy’s in the shitter. LIRR employees are cheating the system. 53 dead in Pakistan. A sizable chunk of voters still think Obama has ties to Islam. I just broke a glass.
It’s hard to be optimistic on Monday morning when things seem rather [...]


The past two months have been utterly overstimulating. I went to China and never got around to blogging about it. Then a few weeks later I went to Toronto for a long weekend. It has just been a whirlwind of a time and I’ve been emotional and trying to feel settled, and writing has taken [...]


I started this blog with enthusiasm, a backlog of already-written entries to post, and a heap of free time on my hands.
Now I’ve failed to post for weeks, and it’s certainly not for lack of material. On February 9th I had a delightful experience in the East Village that I’ve been trying to properly write [...]