I logged back into this account tonight to look up some information (specifically, I was trying to remember when it was that I saw Garden State for the first time - 10 years next month, if you can believe it ( Read more... )

It's been over two years since my last Livejournal post - and probably at least three or four months since I've visited this site, at all ( Read more... )

Just finished reading Hemingway's much-maligned Across the River and Into the Trees. While I can understand the criticism that it was somewhat self-indulgent and bitter, I rather liked it. (Then again, I suppose you make the argument that I too am somewhat self-indulgent and bitter.) But I've always thought there to be a certain dignity in stories ( Read more... )

"We talk about our father as though we loved him, but that was something we only discovered afterwards; while he was alive, he mostly worried us. He'd taken on so much... "   (Up in the Air ( Read more... )

My Bombardier CRJ-700 touched down at Portland International Airport at 6:19 PM, PST this evening - thus ending my tenth flight in less than four months. My flight to Oakland International went wheels-up at 6:30 AM the previous morning, so I was off Portland soil for a grand total of 35 hours, 49 minutes ( Read more... )

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Some years you can’t wait to bid good riddance to; some years you hate to see end.

And then there are years like 2010 - years that simply have to be lived, endured.

And so, for all of us who’ve loved, for all of us who’ve lost, and for all of us who’ve gained,

May you have a Happy New Year and may the good Lord bless and keep you in 2011.

Life seemed pretty good on October 31 ( Read more... )

After five and a half months and thirteen books, I finally accomplished my goal of reading all of Douglas Coupland's novels in chronological order. It was an interesting exercise

This is the gayest thing I've said all year, but it was pretty cool to see them cover Paramour on Glee.