~ standing as i am on the precipice of unemployment, i’ve been making a point to take advantage of my flagging solvency while it lasts (and of course accelerating it in the process*), which has meant buying funny-tasting wine from private importers, eating ribs for breakfast, going to fancy cocktail and charcuterie joints, and flying [...]
Archive for the ‘rant’ Category
Poverties of Spirit, or, “They’re Not Poor, They Just Don’t Have Any Money.”
October 26, 2011
a big thanks to all the all the Invisible folks, nic, chloe, and kelvin; joey and emily for reading; and everyone who showed up for the TO Food & Trembling launch this weekend, and likewise to CanZine and the Broken Pencil peoples for having me as part of their Radical Reading Series. the former went [...]
Actions Louder Than Groans.
October 14, 2011
thinking of late about Thanksgiving, and my misgivings therewith, i was reminded that i had been doing some similar thinking just last year around this time. which is to say that i was having misgivings – if not the same ones, as it turns out. so i think i’ll get right into it, starting with [...]
Forced, False, Fraught*
February 27, 2011
well, that was certainly a New Years Eve of a Nuit Blanche, if ever so ignominious a comparison could be made. given our failure to plan any specific activities/itinerary, it may be tempting to charge us with responsibility for the night being (oblique pun intended) a total washout, but given that my stated standards leaving [...]
Joyce vs. Schultz, or, Merry Christmas, Round-Headed Kid.
February 26, 2011
~ as it turns out, what i have for months assumed to be a rosemary plant growing on my kitchen table, is in fact I Don’t Know, Some Kind of Goddamn Spruce Tree? what is exciting to me about this realization is that is has involved the discovery of a heretofore unrealized aspect of human [...]
Don’t Take Your Sword To The Table? or, Peace-Binding For the Big Feast.
February 25, 2011
~ for the politics and politesse of dietary constraints and the guest/host relationship, “debate” is probably too strong a word, but it is certainly a fraught issue on both sides of which i have found myself at different times in my life. i have spoken to many people – lapsed, lapsing, and prolapsed vegans and [...]
Exactly The Kind Of Comeuppance That Waits In The Wings Every Time I Open My Mouth.
January 25, 2011
Awareness is a funny thing. how something can lurk just beneath the surface of consciousness for who knows how long, until one day it dawns suddenly upon one that they think, or like, or don’t think, or don’t like x. a curious frisson is produced, almost akin to the sensation one has when, after gazing [...]
Lessons Not So Much Learned As Accumulated, Like Stretch-Marks of the Spirit.
December 30, 2010
* * * if ever we took seriously our new years resolutions, at least those uttered with the greatest frequency and conviction in the first 48 hours of the New Year, we would none of us ever go to a new years party again, i am convinced. again this year, as the day approaches (the [...]
America Is Not The World / You Could Get Sent Down For Mixing Latin and Greek
December 2, 2010
i made myself an americano* this morning, for i believe the first time in my life. i was just feeling incapable of appreciating the severity of a normal espresso (it was 7am and life has been hard lately), and stovetop espresso tends to make my skin crawl (not in a bad way, necessarily. not like, [...]
Cradled In The Waves, A Little Bloated, A Little Tempest-Toss’d.
October 7, 2010
field notes from one among many increasingly underwhelming Prodigal returns, with the author’s glosses. ~ DAY ONE: started strong, delved well into the mysterious mimetic wellspring that is DORITOS ALL NIGHTER CHEESEBURGER CHIPS (also, to a lesser extent, LAST CALL JALAPEÑO POPPERS, which are pretty credibly jalapeñé, but with an admirable 10(ish) different kinds of [...]
