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Archive for April, 2009

I don’t know if you can see it very well, but at the center of this photo – taken at the campus of the University of Missouri – is a dressed-down fire-and-brimstone preacher who has in his ear a Bluetooth.

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Do you ever have days when you feel out of place wherever you go, like no matter where you are you’ve just crashed a stranger’s birthday party, and you don’t know anyone, and everyone knows you shouldn’t be there?  I do, and it makes me want to go home and change my shirt.

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Maybe you can help me answer that question.  Here in Missouri, next to me, someone’s celebrating her 23rd birthday.  I feel old.  It’s awesome.

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The answer is yes, but the full story is that I prefer orange juice.

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A few years ago I read a book.  It was Double Fold, by Nicholson Baker, and it concerns the current state of libraries – more specifically, their tendency to obliterate the very books they’re charged with preserving.  In the name of saving space on their shelves and in their annexes, for several decades libraries have [...]

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