All this talk about remembering 9/11 has my head spinning, and I need to vent a few of my half-formed thoughts on the matter ( Read more... )

Presenting people (especially strangers) with alien ideas or circumstances in order to elicit poorly thought-out (and therefore honest) reactions has always been something of a hobby of mine... once, for example, I spent the better part of an afternoon trying unsuccessfully to give away a quarter while strolling down Market Street in San Francisco ( Read more... )

As I noted in an earlier update, time flies like an arrow (and fruit flies like a banana ( Read more... )

My stepmother's funeral-at-sea is taking place in a few hours. She was better to me than my biological mother ever was, and I'm very sorry she's gone ( Read more... )

It's early May. I'm preparing to move to Moscow, Russia on the 1st of July, and I plan on keeping a daily journal here to document my adventures in the East ( Read more... )