March 10 10
i have a job interview coming up and it’s a pretty big one. i’m kinda psyched about it. but i’m not talking about it much. it’s more of a “when i talk about it i get freaked out but when i think about it i can plan and control things” feeling more than anything [...]
January 30 10
i’m not sure why but i’ve been putting myself through the ringer as of late. i spent most of the past two weeks applying for jobs i don’t think i really want and submitting things that don’t warrant submissions to committees. i’ve made myself tired when i shouldn’t be.
i’ve been doing a lot of work [...]
January 26 10
It’s time for my annual Borges quotation.
Now, the conjectural “primitive language” of Tlön has found its ways into the schools . . . in all memories, a fictitious past occupies the place of any other. We know nothing about it without any certainty, not even that it is false . . . A scattered dynasty [...]
January 2 10
i’m bringing the album back into my music life in 2010. i’ll try to record them as I listen to them (but no more than one recorded item per day.)
December 25 09
I took a walk up and down Kane St on Christmas Eve. It was grey and dreary outside.
December 22 09
i’m back. maybe. we’ll see.
the long story is boring. the short story is that i lost my muse. perhaps i’ve discovered a new one? time will tell.
merry christmas.
November 14 09
this blog is going back into hibernation. i may be one of the most advanced bunburryists you know, but things aren’t as fun as they once were.
i’ll post once or twice more when an archive is properly developed and a new corner is found that i might speak from.
November 11 09
When i was growing up in the 1980s and 90s, i thought we commemorated all the dead on Remembrance day. Not just allied soldiers who died, but the enemy soldiers, too. Most important of all, i thought we stood in silence to remember the innocent people who got in the way.
I believed [...]
November 9 09
I’m not American. I have American cousins and American friends; my in-laws also live in the States. One of my closest friends carries an American passport, as does his child. My life is saturated with American culture. But, I’m not American.
Sometimes I feel like have a maligned insider/outsider view of the USA, though. I’ve lived [...]
October 25 09
hello. here are some things i’ve been up to lately.
- reaching for zen. i question whether buddha really is the one for me. but transcendence is a relative beast in the end, so that’s okay.
- wondering if i really do believe in contemporary popular culture. i realized this morning that i watch perhaps only one [...]