Archive for April, 2009
Adventures in Cleaning, Part I
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009I like to think I’m inclined towards the monastic lifestyle — that in implicit rejection of the blatant consumerism that defined American life until the late Great Meltdown, I had my material existence stripped down to purely necessary items, mixed in with particularly interesting artifacts, some good art, and any number of first-edition hardcovers.
Then I [...]
You Are Not Your Antiques
Sunday, April 5th, 2009There’s a line from a later Bob Dylan song that goes something like, “The things you want the most are the things you need the least.” Or words to that effect; Dylan is usually 6:30am commuting music, when the synapses crackle slower than syrup on a sub-zero day. But I’m moving in three and a [...]