Liveblogging our reading of the Official Voter Information Guides for the General Election (SF, CA), Nov. 2, 2010, 7 a.m.–8 p.m.

Good Jobbbbbbb’s 2010 Endorsements Before I became faithful to this blog around 2007 I was a member of a group blog called Crude Futures with two friends. A post of mine from 2005 now makes me cringe (along with pretty much everything else I wrote there, or anywhere else, except for select emails that have [...]

Let This Hangover Be Not Wasted

I’m in a book club with a whole bunch of pseudonyms: Jeremiah’d, Paulie Groundphones, Li’l Broheim, Shampoosie, et al. Maybe their pseudonyms should be taken from the book we’re reading, instead of from the jovial thin air above, since the book is already populated by hundreds of perfectly named minor characters. But I’d want an [...]

“The Indie Yuppie”

Christian Lorentzen: What would have happened to Kurt Cobain if he had pulled through his depression and come out the other end to experience the joys of fatherhood? He may well have stopped touring, moved his family to a co-op on the Upper West Side, had a few more kids, applied his considerable literary talents [...]

Drafts

I’m cleaning out my email “drafts” folder, where memos to myself often get recorded and then lost forever. So here are some things for internal use only that I don’t want to forget. I have absolutely no idea what many of them are referring to; these entries have been marked with a [??] Shandong, 10th [...]

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weak litany

teeth ground down like flax seeds generous MFA student  lets the commercial cascade of raisins fill her cupped palms gimme that cascade I want a pour compound nouns with mouse in em spam email subject line “haha you’ll remember this forever” feel bittersweet hope that somehow it’s real

10/12/10

There were lots of tech-sectory people (pasty, iPad-smooth skin; 29–31; strong core strength wrapped in a thin sheen of Pirate’s Booty softness; boring clothing) holding small dogs on leashes near the two Bauer’s bus stops on 24th St this morning at like 7:15. There’s no other answer: it must be bring your puppy to Google [...]

David Mitchell

I realize that every literate person in the Anglophone world already knows the wonders of this book, but I need to report that reading Cloud Atlas on this bus this morning I nearly exploded. It gave me a full body high; I made myself suppress the sounds of several different types of pleasure (none of [...]

unsent emails (1 of 753)

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I have trouble on the weekends, pt. II