Archive for May, 2008



Officially old.

All the signs are there.
I walked home from work last night, and by the time I got home, I’d grown stiff and weary. (Of course, that could have something to do with the fact that I work nearly eight miles from home, but that isn’t really the point. Young people can walk seven or eight […]

Gray day.

Heavy reading.
I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been to report on a story like this, your own story.
People do it all the time, of course, in the form of memoir, but this isn’t a memoir, not a one-sided recollection of events. It’s an exploration of a rape, of the perpetrator, that neither makes […]

Happy Cinco de Drinko.
Also, happy first anniversary to me and the fine city of Chicago. I celebrated unofficially with K. by sampling the much-heralded cocktails at Violet Hour. I celebrated so unofficially, I don’t even think I told her I was celebrating.
Now, I’m gonna go take what coins I’ve collected to the CoinStar, deposit […]




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