My college friend Camille is now an independent booking agent for musicians. She showed Angel and me around Brooklyn. More recently, she arranged for me two free tickets to tonight's They Might Be Giants concert …
Doesn't a management training program for tech companies sound like a great idea? Also, how to get your resume read if you apply. Almost three years later, even I have to strain to get the …
I am listening to Tallahassee over and over, not eating enough, staying too late at work, wanting to see The Weather Man. It is as though I am so happy, with all of this unexpected …
Reading Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, a novel in sonnets. I like recognizing the scattered nice (precisely fitted) rhymes, and familiar external and internal locations. I adored A Suitable Boy as I loved Anna Karenina. …
was the one thing I meant to mention. Kris and Leonard: "Idylls of the King" by The Mountain Goats starts with "This place" and yet is not awful. Also includes "And the shrieking of innumerable …
I have some sufficiently non-mainstream music in this pile, so I am going to say bah to my insecurities and share the list of CDs on the shelf in my cube here at Salon: Margot …
Today I found myself quoting Keynes or Galbraith, one of those: "In the long run we are all dead."
According to my mom, my dad is actually okay with the fact that I am dating Leonard. In many ways, Leonard is like my dad. They are engineers with creative side endeavors. They love puns …
Listening to the new Franz Ferdinand CD as I turn on my work computer and start getting into the customer service tool. How can it be that life is this awesome?
As election time swings round again, Leonard's ponderings from last year come back to relevance.
