Have you seen Brad’s Status? Yeah, I had never heard of it either before I saw it. It’s a movie starring Ben Stiller and, since it’s my policy to always say yes to people who ask me to do things when I’m free, I ended up seeing it in the theater. Our protagonist, Brad, lives with… Read More »
Three to get married by Fulton J. Sheen A play about three daughters getting married. A comedy, I think. Their father is a priest and marries them off quickly and rather absurdly. I don’t read many plays. This one doesn’t convince me to try more. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the… Read More »
I had this idea to give up my apartment in Denver and go meander around South America because it started to snow in Denver and I hate the snow. Some friends from the States were hanging out in Colombia for a while and I finagled an invitation to join them. I texted friends who live… Read More »
The year ended! 2018 retired and it’s time to update my chart! But, first, if you don’t mind, a stroll through history. History lesson I was reading through my old journals and I came across some fun stuff I think you’ll like seeing. Or maybe you won’t. I don’t know what you like anymore. How… Read More »
I’m still alive.* I’m visiting my parents in Illinois and I wrote down a recipe that I’m never going to use because it involves deep frying and that’s scary. But maybe you’ll use it. And I still like the idea of knowing theoretically how to make it. Dahee is just yogurt in Hindi. I don’t… Read More »
Nanowrimo is over. How’d you do? I wrote 28,000 words, which is not an entire book, but it’s more than half a book and I’m going to keep writing until I create something I don’t hate. Fiction is hard. Papillon by Henri Charriere Autobiography of a French guy sent to prison on the northern coast of South… Read More »
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason So boring. Spend less than you earn. Invest the difference. Learn to money. Blah blah blah. You know all this stuff already. The writing was painful and I don’t understand why everyone likes this book. Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood by Joshua Keating The author… Read More »
Every single self-help book that I’ve ever read recommends meditation. Oh, I guess mine doesn’t. Dammit. But anyway, I finally took everyone’s advice a couple of months ago and started meditating daily for 24 minutes. Yeah, 24 minutes is an odd amount of time, but I read that suggestion in a book and the number spoke… Read More »
Confession you already know: I haven’t paid much mind to the news for the last two years. Reality is scary. We live in a terrifying place full of horrible people doing awful things and a universe governed by chance that doesn’t know me from a rock from an electron from Ursa Major. I don’t like spending my time in… Read More »
Have you heard of National Novel Writing Month? The idea is to write a 50,000-word book in the thirty days of November. You do it as the same time as a bunch of people to give yourself some accountability. That’s the National bit of the title. The resultant novel doesn’t have to win an Oscar.… Read More »