I got a Netflix account. It’s changed my life, not because they mail DVDs to me so much as the way they allow me to watch movies instantly, streaming by way of the Internet. Tonight it’s Manhattan Murder Mystery.
What interests me about this movie, partly, is that all the people in it use regular phones. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Answer the ‘pone
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexander graham bell, kitchens, murder mysteries on November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Posted in What Condition My Condition Is In, tagged grad school on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t like writing seminar papers anymore.
Travel and the problem of me not doing it very much
Posted in No need to let the neighbors run my life, tagged creative nonfiction, neighbors, nonfiction writing, problems, travel on November 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s hard to blog sometimes.
I’ve been corresponding with someone I haven’t seen in years, a woman who has been all over the world and will probably end up going out into space someday, that’s how good she is at getting around to places. She is a consummate traveler.
As a nonfiction writer, it’s hard to know [...]
I voted
Posted in Prosperity, tagged election day, greedo, voting on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I voted today. I used the paper ballot, and then was led to a machine that collected my ballot. I fed the sheet of paper with my pen marks on it into a slot at the top of the machine. It was, disconcertingly, just like a paper shredder.
Greedo was there. I didn’t ask which way [...]
