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Not Happy? Change Something!
I was a vegetarian from around the time I was 13 to around the time I was 23. That’s a whole decade where I did not eat meat. It’s kind of funny to think back at those days – especially when the happiest day of my week is the day that I get to visit [...]
My Personal Dagobah
I went to the movies the other day – the theater on 2nd Ave and 31st street. This is a section of town that I hate. It reminds me of the past. Of ex-lovers. Of disappointment and fear. In the iconography of my life, this section of town is my version of the cave on [...]
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
Well, it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It’ll never do, somehow When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I’ll be gone You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on [...]
Me Write Pretty One Day
“Writing is pain. I’m not here to make it less painful for you. I’m here to take you to new levels where you will experience deeper and different kinds of pain.” – Pat Mouton, Liverpool High School English I started writing this post 15 days ago, when the most influential teacher in my life Pat [...]
The Blues
I spent most of yesterday staying dry in my house and painting my living room. It was actually a fun project and, since the living room neighbors my bedroom, necessary to bring some color to the downstairs part of my apartment. As you can tell from these two pictures, the walls were in dire need [...]
You are what you love
It’s late at night and I’m just finishing up working. It’s a Friday night, but it doesn’t have the same closure of most Friday nights. I’m feeling alone and tired. At the end of the day, I can’t help but think about a quote from a Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins Song, “You are [...]
Oh, Sister
Today on Facebook, my sister started posting various pictures from her childhood. Of course, I appeared in a good deal of them. It’s weird to look back at the various pictures she posted – seeing all the strangers, all those faces from the past, and wonder what happened over all these years. I’ve grown up [...]
Remembering What Never Happened
On March 1st, I will toast to all things that could of been, for the things that actually happen tend to ultimately disappoint, while the things that never happen never do. They just remain there with the a sweet sullen melancholy of what could have been…. One of my favorite aspects of blogging is that [...]
The Beast and Dragon, Adored
I sat in the back of Destination, my arm around Emily, as she asked me how I could be such a hopeless romantic and an asshole. I started to tell the story of the former love of my life; a story that contains vignettes that have her filled with such vitriol that she behaves in [...]
The L Train is for “Love”; The F Train is for….
Each morning, I get on the L Train at 14th street and 1st Ave. It’s a short but nice walk for me through Tompkins Square Park and up Avenue A and across to 1st near Stuyvesant Town. I put in my (now deceased) pair of Skullcandy headphones that I received from Skullcandy back in the [...]
