Archive for Miscellany

I can levy judgment with the best of them


Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Hooray! I’ve been selected for jury duty in Kings County! Finally, the Man’s recognized my inate ability to confer judgement on my fellow man!!!
Ha. The Man couldn’t properly define “inate,” nor “confer.”
No, but seriously — why do we all speak of jury duty as the seventh plague? I recognize the interruption of one’s schedule; I […]

So … do we know if James Frey is dead yet?


Thursday, November 09th, 2006

Everything on this site will be so helplessly outdated by the time anyone gets around to reading it, I don’t mind posting something that occurred to me many months ago. I’ll keep it brief:
So, we all agree that James Frey substituted fiction for non-fiction, and that this was a great crime against humanity, yeah? As […]

A tremendous show of procrastination


Sunday, November 05th, 2006

I imagine that, once upon a time, I had great aspriations to post on this site; but it was summer, then (so, like, very hot out), I was in the process of moving-in with my girlfriend (only a few short blocks, but clearly a fraught decision), and I was busily conceiving of a new novel […]