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Hello, Internet! Fancy meeting you here. I’m in a weird mood, and also back in Vermont, uh, recharging. Yeah. The weirdness isn’t bummed-outness. It’s more like, now my feelings about returning to my hometown have been confirmed (yesssss!), and my expectation of it not being, like, immediate gratification have been validated. I’m kind of relieved [...]

First, this new Wuthering Heights cover makes my heart hurt: I can’t even. Just. Really? Dangnabbit. I lost my entire train of thought and this just became a list. Things that make me happy, July 2K10 edition: almond tea all the awesome dogs that live in my town finding Kobo Abe’s The Box Man at [...]

After my petty Netflix complaints in the previous post, I spent an inordinate amount of time and effort searching for something to Watch Instantly. This turned into an evening of rating several hundred movies to bump me over the 1000 mark  –and finally settling on something to watch and falling asleep 5 minutes into it. [...]

There simply was too much cell phone coverage and not enough snow in my life so I moved to Vermont almost two weeks ago. No joke, really. Small town New England –maple flavored everything, ski reports on the news, people leaving their cars unlocked and running in the grocery store parking lot. There’s been snow [...]

Ten years ago I sold my 87 Pontiac Sunbird for scrap, packed an army duffel, got on a plane, and landed in Los Angeles. The near-year I spent there encompassed some of the most fun I’ve had along with the absolute worst point in my life so far. I do not regret a minute of [...]