You know, I had a great idea for a post today, then got home and saw that Brad DeLong had already done it. Brad Delong is much smarter than I am, and he’s a world-class economist to boot. I can’t outdo Brad DeLong. So I’ll steal his pictures, instead, and add one or two others:
The [...]
Doesn’t start with the hot water. Starts with the idea, the plan, the thought like the taste of liquor on your tongue, around four o’clock. Maybe earlier, much earlier, in the shower even, of that very same day. It’s there, like the promise of a call from a lover, waiting for you. Only this you [...]
I collect stories. I watch, interview, sort and relay with relish and enhanced veracity.
Here are three stories from last week that have stayed with me because, as referenced yesterday, they brought “the truth up front in daily consciousness.”
One:
The protagonist is a freshman in college, first week on campus. He is a context guy, always cognizant of [...]
As I was re-reading David Foster Wallace online, I received a forwarded email. It was from an aunt whose emails usually contain blinking/singing American flags and/or truisms that would have been cross-stitched on a pillow a generation ago. DFW would have loved her. The emails implicitly assume that I voted for Bush in both cycles [...]
After a sometimes-harrowing bus ride from Naples, the Amalfi Coast revealed itself, and I understood why people from the Mediterranean are stereotyped as dramatic.
The landscape!
I wondered how one could live a carved existence in these volcanic hills and not be dramatic.
Upon tasting the local food I wanted to grab our waiter, kiss him, then slap [...]