Archive for March, 2009
Apartment Hunting
Saturday, March 28th, 2009Spent all day on the hunt for a new apartment. In the processes, I learned something very interesting about myself: I have an immediate and visceral reaction to the sight of a bathroom done in pink tile and pinker plaster, and that immediate-and-visceral reaction is “Get me the hell out of here right now.” The [...]
Twitter Walken
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009In early 1983, the U.S. government initiated the world’s first TCP/IP network, in order to preserve some modicum of communication between its various nodes in the event of thermonuclear war. Actually, they thought that was the reason, but as it turns out, that wasn’t the case.
In 1988, that network opened wide, with three commercial Internet [...]
Dollhouse’s Dangerous Game
Thursday, March 19th, 2009To: Richard Connell
From: Me
Re: “Dollhouse”
Ah, Richie, you’ve been dead for almost sixty years; but I’ve had a quarter-bottle of Campos Reales 2008 (left behind by one of my best friends before they drove off into the sunset – re: 1,000 miles from NYC, to a place with an actual yard and trees – with their [...]
I Trust You to Kill Me
Sunday, March 15th, 2009Wrote my 100th article for eWeek… well, given the pace, it’s now at 107, but even so.
In other news, discovered that Rocco DeLuca re-did “I Trust You to Kill Me” for his new album, “Mercy.” I’ve been a fan of his work ever since I saw the documentary, released two years ago, that delineates the [...]
War Journal
Monday, March 2nd, 2009So, while at my grandmother’s house over the weekend, I found a canvas sack containing my great-grandfather’s World War I gear: his towel, his cap, three straight-razors with ivory handles still in their boxes, his round tin dog-tags, his postcards of France and troop transports. And at the bottom of the sack, preserved against the [...]