Things’ll be a little slow around here for the next week or two, probably, as moving back to America becomes priority number one. Just to give you a head’s up.
Also, one from the “moving is complicated” file: When we moved here, we bought a big 26″ widescreen CRT television off of Gumtree, the UK equivalent [...]
Entries Tagged as 'reading'
[slowdown]
August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: life · reading · website stuff
[picking the low-hanging fruit]
August 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Hey, you know who’s still a douchebag? That James Frey asshole who wrote A Milion Little Pieces.
I read a Vanity Fair article about the guy a month or two ago and thought, you know, maybe he’s not so bad, he probably deserves a second chance. And then I opened this week’s issue of TimeOut [...]
Tags: language · reading · writing
[and now, the apocalypse]
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
There’s a certain kinship between end-timers of all stripe- whether they be religious, political, resource-based, or even environmental. The source of their beliefs, and the information they take as a given, obviously varies, but there’s definitely enough similarity to make you think that, even though most people who belong to one group tend to think [...]
Tags: america · politics · reading
[writing about books]
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s Saturday, and everybody pretends that they don’t use the Internet on weekends for some reason, so I’ll bash out one of those posts about books and things, since nobody cares much about those. This is part of the ongoing project of recording all of the books I’ve read this year, so everyone can know [...]
[brain vomit]
June 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Kat and I made a challenge to one another to crank out at least a thousand words a day, every day, for the month of June. I’ve been pretty good at it so far, but today I woke up and couldn’t imagine typing a single coherent sentence. I stormed off out of the flat in [...]
Tags: reading
[gentleman of leisure]
June 5th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve had a sore throat for the past few days, which means I’ve got this awesome Iggy-Pop-on-the-talking-tracks-from-the-avenue b-album thing going on. Since I’m alone it’s resulted in my reciting various words that I think might sound cool and showing off how rough and tumble my vocal chords are right now. So far I’ve done the [...]
[all those dreams you're having]
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m feeling a bit better about the waiting game. Still sitting on ten sent queries with no reply, but none of them have been out longer than ten days; some significantly less. I’ll just pretend to be patient for a while, in the hope that it’ll actually make me patient. This is how it works. [...]
[bright]
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
You almost never get to hear things like rain falling hard on the roof in London. It rains all the time, but it rarely comes down in a pour like it’s doing right now. I had walked here twenty minutes ago in the sunshine, and I had been sweating.
This is a curious little island [...]