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caught the early plane back to London, fifty acorns tied in a sack

Still editing the same novel. I got to talk to Tess Gerritsen about this project when I was at Muse and the Marketplace. I felt so self-conscious during the whole conversation that I became at least three separate people. But the topic of the seminar she’d given was How You Know If You Have A [...]

when johnny comes marching home again

A two-man panhandling team worked the MBTA Red Line on Monday evening. One was dressed in full Army fatigues: BDUs, boots, cover, duffel bag slung over the shoulder. His jacket had a tag that said “U.S. ARMY” and a flag on one shoulder, but no other patches or insignia. As soon as the doors closed [...]

blood, tits and scowling

New post up on Overthinking It about premium cable’s favorite genre for historical drama: Blood, Tits and Scowling. And yes, it’s a genre: The beauty of Blood, Tits and Scowling as a genre is that, when you put them all together, it creates a perpetual engine for drama. A competent showrunner and a good production [...]

ready to give up so I seek the old earth

Look, Conor, I’m as intrigued as anyone at the Paul/Frank bill that would end the federal prohibition on pot use. In fact, it’s something of a shame that it’s taken two crusty white men to introduce legislation that would improve the lives of a few million young black men. Were there no better opportunities? Was [...]

overthrow the effigy, the vast majority

I had some time to kill in the Inman Square / Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge weekend before last, so I hit up some used bookstores. I only intended to browse there. Of course I ended up buying. That’s what I do in used bookstores. It doesn’t matter that my shelves at home are filled [...]

but just saying it could even make it happen

Much thanks to Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias for reminding us how useless polls are. The poll in question, a survey conducted at the liberal Netroots Nation conference this past week, found the following: 27 percent strongly approving of Obama and 53 percent approving “somewhat.” Thirteen percent said they “somewhat disapprove,” and 7 percent strongly [...]

ain’t had the blues yet today, but I can feel them coming on

Those of you following me on Facebook or Twitter know about the hassle I’ve been going through with Comcast lo these past weeks. Months now, if you trace it to the first modem outages in early April. Throughout this whole ordeal, I’ve been more impressed than I expected by Comcast’s customer service. Every time I’ve [...]

these are the days when you wish your bed was already made

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. – Arthuer Schopenhauer Our office shares a floor and a restroom with a rent-a-desk tech center. Coming out of the men’s room the other day, I found a man with professorial wrinkles and a denim shirt smiling at me. “They locked me [...]

your former glories and all your stories

Guys, I figured it out. One of the key dilemmas of human experience. The question of why the artists we discover in our youth – our turbulent adolescence, the college years where we develop our critical stance – seem so much better to us than the artists who start their careers when we’re old. “Today’s [...]

x-men: tinker, xavier, lensherr, spy

New post up on Overthinking It comparing X-Men First Class to the spy fiction of the Sixties: Despite the explosive mutant battle on the shores of Cuba that caps the film, the primary conflict in First Class is espionage. Sebastian Shaw operates behind the scenes to provoke the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to the brink [...]

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