Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t I?

I’m not going to apologise for it: I’m a quitter and a coward; I have an extraordinarily low threshold for pain. If the world should ever be reduced to a grey, bleak, horizonless rock I have no qualms about offing myself in the quickest, most convenient, way. The whole shtick about never losing hope, about [...]

The one big surprise is that as it turns out, God is the sun. It makes sense, if you think about it. Why we didn’t see it sooner I cannot say. Every day the sun was right there burning, ours and other planets hovering around it, always apologizing, and we didn’t think it was God. [...]

You ever have one of those days when you feel like you’re a character in a book? Not a movie because you can’t act to save your life, and/or everyone knows a narrator in a movie is practically a death knell, but these things go through your mind and you think, this could be a [...]

Madeleine L’Engle died last week, and thus my childhood came to an end. To this day I maintain that no children’s fiction character, least of all a certain boy wizard who shall not be named, holds a flame to the greatness that was the Murry Family series (A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, [...]

Am reading Bret Easton Ellis’s* “Less than Zero”, while also watching Entourage on video. One is superficial, irreverent, and extremely entertaining**; the other superficial, irreverent, but mildly depressing. I find myself oscillating between the extremes.
There’s a style of writing called “Stream of Consciousness“, which I love love love, if only because it tells you how [...]

God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
ps. How ironic is it that the Google ads are all for religious god-centric conspiracy shit? “Who will be the next pope”? Man, you gotta love the net.

From Kiko the Daysleeper

The Fourth State of Matter by Jo Ann Beard.
Kind of reminds me of this guy. Also, James Leer. Not that I managed to finish Wonder Boys, Kiko. You were right; Chabon is a technical bore.
In Total Randomness this week, I was also reading up on the geologic time scale, in conjunction with global warming and [...]

Not even “The Simpsons” can make me feel better today.
I was walking the cat, and all I could think was, he broke my heart.
He wasn’t even on Wiki’s front page. Or on McSweeney’s He is now. He’s in Slashdot but it took them a while to set that article up. He is, however, on the [...]