July 2009
15 posts
...and fifteen years later.
“Outside, I sat on a bench near L. L. Bean, eating an ice cream, and tried to order “The Bourne Identity” wirelessly from the Kindle Store. But no—there is no Kindle version of “The Bourne Identity.” What?
What else was missing? Back home, I spent an hour standing in front of some fiction bookcases, checking on titles. There is no Amazon Kindle version of “The Jewel in the Crown.” There’s...
Nicholson Baker contemplating book -related...
“The main subject card catalog of the University of California at Berkeley was thrown out in the summer of 1993 to make way for eight study tables. Bryn Mawr’s main catalog is gone. The university of Hawaii’s main catalog is just about gone. A recycling firm called Earthworm, Inc., carted off the bulk of MIT’s cards in 1989 - these now mingle unintelligibly as shoe or...
Mysterious list found on my desk at work this...
- Some day this pain will be useful to you
- How I paid for college
- Candy everyone wants
- Perks of Being a Wallflower
- No kiss list
I've been a college graduate for two months. Let's...
1. I now own a bag that isn’t a cloth tote bag with a cutesy picture on it. It even has a separate cell-phone pocket.
2. A few times a week I get up before noon and go sit in an office. When I do this I am usually wearing a shirt that isn’t a t-shirt and shoes that aren’t converse.
3. At bars I’ve taken to ordering mixed drinks instead of beer.
4. I wear sunscreen...
There are many reasons to love Bushwick
Here’s one of them: Boy, about 8 years old, standing in the street in front of my building, dancing and singing Sly & the Family Stone at the top of his lungs, just for his friends, just because it’s noon on a Tuesday in July.
Oprah put Mary Robison's new book (which I haven't... →
I defend Oprah a lot (or I used to, I kinda feel like Liz Lemon has made Oprah at least a little cool) for no particular reason, except I find it way annoying how dismissive most people are of Oprah’s book club (suck it, Franzen)(sorry, Durga).
I haven’t owned my own tv…ever, actually. This is somewhat surprising considering the fact that when I was in kindergarden I actually gave our (little, wood paneled) tv a Valentine, but not really surprising at all considering the fact that I can pretty much watch whatever I want on my computer. Restricting my tv habits to the computer does make it slightly harder for me to get into...
the plan
I’m going to only read books set in New York City and watch movies that have really great scenes of 1970s excess.
There are roosters in my neighborhood that crow...
These are the kinds of things you learn on the 5th of July.
