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the guy who invented ramen (aka Wonderfuliciousness) is dead, prompting a spot-on response from NYT: not a eulogy to the man, but an ode to the noodle.

i signed on AIM for the first time in i don't know how long. i'd been waiting for someone to come on gchat, but they never do, so i was like, wtf, let's rock it old school style and dial up the A-I-M. and mary hit me up and was all like, "yo, how you be?" and i was all like, "aww, shit, how you be?" and then we talked about life and she said nice ( Read more... )

MAJOR NEWS:
in America Feb 12 - 26.
*******in Chicago Feb 16-25.**********

WAAAAHOO!!!!! celebrate my birthday belatedly with me! all of you!

(i'll buy you a beer to make up for all the emails i didn't write.)

paul auster, brooklyn follies
salman rushdie, shalimar the clown

it's rare to read two great novels in a row, and i've just had the pleasure. both were totally absorbing (if you like reading books, anyways. you know who you are/aren't). and both reminded me of the inexpressable fun of reading a really good story.

enjoy!

in israel, kids wear headgear (the orthdontic monster-mouth kind) in public. outside. in 2006.

it is thanksgiving in america. today. maybe it is cold there? or there are leaves turning? or gray skies? or autumnal sunshine?
i am in israel. today. it is 61 degrees here, and the next 5 days are forecast to be between 65 and 66 degrees. it is sunny as always.

our lunch today: turkey like they used to serve in bartlett. sweet potatoes with no ( Read more... )

i talked about lonelygirl15 with chuk at the end of august. i don't remember if i said that i thought she was fake or not. it's funny that people aren't mad about this but were mad about jt leroy. weirdos, the whole world is. (maybe everyone already knows about this. continents mean my wired news reaches me at a time remove.)

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i feel done here. done with whatever it was i decided i needed to do. now i just want to go home (to chicago) and have it be last year. i will be sitting at my desk in the big bedroom, with the windows onto the street, and i won't see JZ Smith gathering leaves because it's too cold for that now. and lauren will come home from work and watch some ( Read more... )

she was born oct 3, motzei yom kippur. her name is sarah and she is very cute/ugly.


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