A little something from back in the day, for Joe on the occasion of his wedding.
Los Angeles is really big. Really, really big. Obscenely big. Our captain notified us 125 miles out of LAX that we were beginning our descent; 10 minutes later, all I could see outside the window was a carpet of surburbia [...]
Category Archives: history
To Have and to Hold
06-Jul-07Impressions
16-Jun-07I hadn’t known her more than a week at the time, probably even less. She had off-handedly mentioned wanting to see the new Batman movie during one of our first conversations, one of those conspicuous drops that could either be just an informative fact or a subtle invitation.
I assumed it was the latter and asked [...]
Games, part one of four
27-May-06This is the first of a four-part series discussing my favorite PC games. As a Mac user, I rarely get to play games anymore, but for a large portion of my childhood and young adult life, they were my preferred source of entertainment. This list was not compiled via some rigorous computational method, nor did [...]
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11-Jan-06Her best friend picked up her phone and looked at the alert message on the screen.
“Holy crap, you have 17 unheard voice messages! What are you doing?”
She snatched the phone back, gave it a quick glance, and punched a series of keys.
Delete all.
Confirm.
“There,” she said, brandishing the phone to her friend. “And now [...]
Though I Know You’re Not Home
16-Dec-05My old apartment still smells the same: carpet and paint and must and that something I was never quite able to put my finger on, even after having lived in it for four years. It’s a smell heavy with memories—I almost expect to walk out into the living room to see my brother challenge me [...]
