January 2011
11 posts
December 2010
16 posts
“Falling in love, like having a baby, rubs against the main current of our lives:...”
– Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
“Mr. Lockhart, who has his own complicated relationship with the city, marveled...”
– As a former usher, I think I speak for all of us when I say that Mr. Lockhart probably never greeted the ushers or did anything other than get really angry when we screwed up balloon drops. Also, why did all the cool people have to come to Pops after I stopped working there?
“This past January John Sargent, CEO of the publisher Macmillan, met with Amazon...”
– A sobering article about the changes Amazon has wrought on the publishing world and its possible ramifications for the future of the book market.
Random Things I Did Today
Heard some of the worst vomiting stories in my life, courtesy of two school nurses. I didn’t ask for the stories. They just told them. It was like word vomit about vomit.
Dumped out two big bottles of sudafed and scraped each tiny pill into individual to-go packets. This is probably the closest I will ever get in my life to making crystal meth.
Ate snowflakes like a first-grader.
Was...