Is there any activity more soul-crushingly dull than writing a personal statement for school applications? Even for, oh painful irony, a blogger? I’ve been blathering about myself effortlessly for almost six years now, but now there is a goal involved, my typing rate has slowed to approximately one sentence per hour. Perhaps the problem is [...]
“Thirty two bucks to see a guy I hear every week for free?” was my reaction, when I heard that Ira Glass was coming to town. I’m a big fan of This American Life, and I even donate $5 whenever he implores me to each year. But that seemed such a stiff price for radio, [...]
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams, 1962 In the latest installment of This American Life, available for download here, commentators discuss this poem by William Carlos Williams. I remember studying [...]
So earlier, when I sat down to plod some more on my thesis, I checked my email and got a notice: my submission has been accepted for the upcoming issue of Spring Formal, a magazine put out through the Kansas City Art Institute. Yay! More details (probably) forthcoming later. In the meantime – :P Be [...]
