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I believe I can fly
Nothing could make my skin crawl like that girl, high on E, busting out with her acapella version of the above, thinking that that was what the room needed at that moment, forcing everyone into 30 or 40 seconds of silence and then a few phrases of mumbled appreciation. Why does everyone think they are so bloody profound when they are belting out a ( Read more... ) -
weltschmerz (VELT-shmerts)
Oye oye ( Read more... ) -
Good Friday
Good Friday. Barabas had the naming rights ( Read more... ) -
Randy
Fucking Randy. He must get on the subway at 7:00 to arrive at work when he does. And I know why. It's not to get a jumpstart on the day's work, gentle reader -- if it were, he wouldn't be sleeping on three rollerwheel chairs pulled into a line, a makeshift bed, when I arrive at 8:30 ( Read more... ) -
On My Desk
Three manila envelopes; a neon-green Nalgene bottle; two jars of Omega-3 fish oil; a tobacco pipe; a lighter; a Chinese "chop" with my name engraved in the base; a packet of two disposable Gillette razors, still unopened; a half-finished crinkle-pack of finasterade; "On Writing Well," by William Zinsser; a Nokia T29 that doesn't work; some Japanese ( Read more... ) -
The boy bands, the cell phones
Told them I had a dentist appointment this morning and slept in. Had that first porridge-thick cup of coffee at 13:00, not 8:30, so I gots my buzz on now, and there's a decent song on iTunes, and only two more hour of labor for today, which is a mild one for late-winter Asia.
How To Improve My Office Productivity1) Blow-job Teams. I can't believe ( Read more... ) -
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I need an honest working definition of "macking." What does it mean? -
Friends and editing
It's the holidays. Friends don't let friends drive drunk, and friends don't let friend edit other friends' touch-feely statement-of-purpose essays to Montessori schools in India, of all places ( Read more... ) -
Earwax
My hearing hasn’t been too clear of late. I often mistake a word or a phrase for something else. Yesterday I went to see the doctor. He wanted to listen to my heart so I took off my shirt ( Read more... ) -
Divulgement and dissimulation = Rant
I think I lack challenge. It occured to me earlier that I defined myself in my own country more by what I was not than what I was. Living in another culture, I am obviously not of any of it. So what am I? A memory of what I was not? I need a refresher course ( Read more... )