My wife and I were hanging out the other day, and she asked me what I’d hope to accomplish for myself in 2020. I thought about it for a while, and it occurred to me that the mere act of having to think about what I’d like to accomplish next year meant that I didn’t …
I had something of an epiphany this weekend, and I’m still trying to figure out how to process it. Let me back up a second and explain. So on Friday night, the wife and I actually left the kid with his grandparents and stayed out and about in Manhattan after work; one of my oldest …
So I’ve been kinda fucked up lately. With the news. Like, really kinda fucked up. As in, I am really needing to go to therapy on Saturday. I want to clarify: I’m not in a dangerous place. But over the last few weeks, with news shit really starting to get, like, absurd, I’ve been aware of my face …
(deep breath) OK. I’m going to re-write a thing I’ve talked about in various other, older blogs, about one of the most pivotal events of my life. It is a weird thing, and if you were to read this and say “I think you’ve smoked too much pot”, I wouldn’t necessarily disagree. But it’s still …
So this New Yorker article popped up in my Twitter feed and got me thinking about “the end of blogs”, although my perspective is much different than the essay’s author. Her piece is about the failure of the blog (specifically The Hairpin and The Awl) to generate self-sustaining revenue, and as such, it is becoming …
Here we are, the biggest day of the nerd year. Stranger Things 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein 2, Assassin’s Creed Origins. But my head and my heart are elsewhere. I think we’re going to be saying goodbye tomorrow to our sweet Lily, Lilybug, Lilymonster, Lily von Pooten, Lil’ Flooferbutt. It’s the right decision, even though it’s agonizing and heartbreaking. …
My wife and I are home, sick, again, as we’ve been all week. It’s been a shitty week. We just finished watching Arrival. A few quick thoughts: 1. One of the problems of being parents who are afraid of hiring babysitters is that we don’t get to go to the movies as often as we’d like. …
1. [cross-posting from my secret blog, but bear with me] So every once in a while I get overwhelmed by whatever it is that overwhelms me about people, and so I publicly announce that I’m taking a Facebook hiatus, and each time I do the hiatus never lasts, and I feel like a hypocrite. I’ll …
If all goes according to plan, we close on our house this coming Friday, and we move the following Saturday, August 1. I left for work this morning and as I walked down the street I started becoming hyper-aware of my surroundings – the view of the Hudson from the top of my hill, the …
1. In last week’s entry, I wrote that I was incredibly distracted and overwhelmed by the very real possibility that the house we’d fallen love with was going to be ours within a matter of weeks, and that the speed with which this whole thing happened was dizzying and disorienting. In my excitement and confidence …
