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field notes 10 Jun 2013 | 07:58 pm
I’m sitting at the pharmacy waiting to pick up some medicine for my brother. An old woman with a white ponytail in a bright coral sweater and pants sits down next to me and exclaims, “Oh, it’s nice in...
where i've been 15 Apr 2013 | 08:25 am
I'm just going to jump in as though we're mid-conversation. Last August, I got sick. And I finally got better, oh, a little less than a month ago. Truly better, up-and-around, drive-a-car, live-life-...
j. crew emergency teams and procedures 25 Jan 2013 | 02:52 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As you will see, Team/Color Names have been updated to reflect current trends. However, the actual colors have not ch...
after newtown 15 Dec 2012 | 07:36 am
First the shock. Then the alternating waves of rage and grief. Then the grief rises and rises and rises, shaking and howling, until it breaks open into something else. It becomes something calm and im...
can an old blog learn new tricks? 23 May 2012 | 01:27 pm
Dear Gallivanting Monkey, It's nearly seven years that you and I have been together. I don't think this is a breakup letter - it's more a State of the Union address, or couples therapy (except only I...
ye olde 500th annualle oscarre dresstravaganza commentarye and reviewe 28 Feb 2012 | 01:05 am
I've translated this from the original Chaucer, who as everyone knows was a total pop culture Nostradamus. Oscarre Teuthousande and Tweylfe! Let's beginne at the beginning, which was 2:00 PST, as I w...
that didn't happen 27 Feb 2012 | 06:04 pm
For all of you sneaky bastards who subscribe to an RSS feed and think that what you may have just seen was the actual Oscar Dress review post, forget it. You accidentally caught the post in its underw...
paper anniversary 21 Jan 2012 | 04:17 pm
It’s one year now since I decided to write a book. (It’s also my seventh wedding anniversary tomorrow, but there’s no need to do a State of the Union there. We’re slicing through the years with good m...
captain phillips rides again 28 Oct 2011 | 04:21 pm
When Dave was a kindergartener in Australia, he fell in love with a little blonde girl in his class. Her name was Cathy Phillips, but that's immaterial, because she was that girl. She didn't need a na...
yar 9 Oct 2011 | 10:36 pm
I had the alarming realization lately that I’m going to be spending nine months of every year driving to and from Finn’s (and, someday, Fred’s) elementary school until I'm 51 years old. Holy fuck. F...
