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 [...]
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 [...]
September 21 09
we don’t know a thing about things like atmospheric pressure and ocean currents and the motions of the planets but we do know that we love the first couple days of the fall when the air is crisp and the sun’s rays are golden and everything outside looks like it does on the the 35mm [...]
July 31 09
so you went on a trip and did something and i asked oh yeah how was that and you told me it was really great and then you explained in detail all the awesome things that made that something so great and i smiled and nodded and listened and then related it to a time [...]
May 24 09
This is a meme. It has been years since I played along with a meme. In fact, the last time I played a meme, I got so angry with the internet that it led me to rethink my relationship with it, and i walked away from blogging for almost three years.
But this meme [...]
May 20 09
- Everything’s the same!
- everything is the same, yes.
- What could this mean?
- nothing. it means nothing.
- What does that mean?
- nothing.
- Oh no.
- Oh, yes.
May 17 09
- What are you waiting for?
– Nuthin.
- Then what are you doing?
- Waiting.
- For what?
- Nuthin.
May 10 09
(poor crackpot-theory alert. read at my peril and yours.)
I’ve just come back from a trip. I’ve been away. I was gone. I left my existence in one space and ventured forward into another for nine days.
Then I returned.
I think the manner in which we describe ourselves – often through the verb “to be” – is [...]
April 18 09
my first hockey sweater was a montreal canadiens sweater. well, no. it was actually a CCM polyester knit that was completely free of any NHL team or corporate logo. I was five years of age and it was the early 1980s, so i probably didn’t care if the big CH was on the front or [...]