It’s a bit of a cliche in my family (both families, I suppose – that which I share with my parents and that which I share with Emily) that Sunday night is a dreadful time to be conscious. I expect…
Category: A Day in the Life
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It’s in the game. MVP 2005 is widely recognized by those who are obsessed with baseball video games (most of my friends) as the best baseball video game ever made. The only reason that we have not gone on to…
Drawing Blanks
But the bacteria are coming to take us down that’s my prediction it’s the answer to this culture of the quick-fix prescription. -Ani DiFranco, “Garden of Simple” I think I have a staff infection. No, not a staph infection. I’m…
I’m Feeling Lucky
I have spent the better part of the last 2.5 hours finally updating the list for OMBFP. (This stands for One Million Blogs for Peace, but I really only call it OMBFP. That’s how I roll.) Anyway, updating this list…
Complications
My father had his second cataract surgery today. There were complications. In the dormant period of time between Introspection and StoreyTelling, you may have missed the fact that I attended his first cataract surgery, an unfettered success. Both were held…
O, October!
My thoughts are scattered and they’re cloudy. The Blue Pyramid, despite the fact that it’s still deciding what exactly it wants to do with itself and where it’s going next, is quite popular according to Technorati. And Technorati should know.…
There is No Perfect Place, Yes I Know this is True
I think, despite it all, that I live with a lot of illusions. Key among them, perhaps the biggest of all-time, is that there is some place – a brief stopping point or a full destination – where everyone will…
Transcript of Notebook Jottings from October 2007 Fast
The following is a direct transcript of the notes I took while immersed in my ~40-hour fast in the woods (41.5 hours of water fasting, 31 hours in the woods). Background information available here and here. I briefly thought about…
Who’ll Stop the Rain?
When it rains in the Tenderloin, it’s easy to lose your footing. Not only is the rain itself slick in this oft-forgotten neighborhood of San Francisco, but the sidewalks are so often coated with various debris that it mingles with…
Out of the Woods
Just dropping a note to let everyone know that I am out of the woods (literally), having spent about 31 hours immersed in the woods and 41.5 hours without food. I wrote extensively in a notebook while I was out…