Month: June 2008

  • Andy would love the analogy

    I won’t lie, I wasn’t in love with the excerpt of Fresh Kills that I read during the final months of the ABNA contest. But I have to admit, this guy sounds like a writer. (Also, I’m well-aware it was only an excerpt, and one that hadn’t been through the rigors of the Penguin editors…

  • Scrambled eggs thoughts

    Recently things keep coming up every time I want to blog, jolting me out of whatever mood I’m in and making me rethink whatever I’m about to say. For example, yesterday I was going to blog something happy (I can’t even remember what it was anymore) and then I received a phone call that totally…

  • (quote)

    From A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf: For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind one single voice. (Thanks to Mengfei for giving me this…

  • Foto Friday: Contemplation

    Thanks to everyone for your support yesterday. Sometimes I feel like a self-centered moron for getting so overwhelmed by my problems, which I know are tiny and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Like a cobweb in the middle of the dark, dank, rancid, rat-infested attic of the world’s issues. I’m lucky, and I…

  • Unsent letter #5567

    Dear Universe, Is there some kind of rule, like, we’re not allowed to have all our sh*t together at one time? Because sometimes it seems like you are monitoring everyone and going, “Oh, you fixed that part of your life? Here, then let me mess this part up for you. You need more to do.…