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Archive for October, 2008

On the day the Market crashed, I immediately, texted a very near and dear friend from back in the days when I passed the time playing the role of Cult-Diver for fun and exercise (and probably a good measure of disfunction, too).
My text read, tongue ruefully planted in cheek:
“LaThule was right!  The stock market has [...]

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I get home late to find that the front door key to the apartment building just won’t work.  The key goes into the cylinder.  I turn the key and the cylinder turns with it.  And I’m stuck outside.  This has already happened once before, about a month ago.  Buzzing the super’s apartment led nowhere.  Buzzing [...]

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So We Gonna?

And so I’m sleeping curled up on the bed, on my right side, cuz the Sufi’s say that if you sleep on your left side, you’re more liable to have them there dirty, distracting dreams I really don’t need any of right now.
Barack Obama, somewhere, just shakes his head and smiles.  He smiles in the [...]

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Cuz He Died In Print

As a sign of how my life has changed, how I have slowly cut myself off from many of the things that most folks in these here parts regard as meaningful entrainments/entertainments to lubricate/mediate daily life, consider this.  Weeks after his death and I didn’t know David Foster Wallace had died.  It took seeing a [...]

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