Category: friendship

• I am the walrus.

  Dec 6

  There’s nothing quite as funny as the number of drugs I’ve taken over the past few months (years) to help me sleep. But the week of Thanksgiving, I stepped down… more ›

• Tu boda en mi boca Thursday

  Nov 29

  “A mixed tape for un-mixed people.” AKA La música para coger…. I mean, let’s just cut to the chase. I’m not getting any younger! Well, kids: you witnessed the proposal… more ›

• Thanksgiving Thursday

  Nov 22

  A random selection of music to be thankful for: “Beaten Thursdays” by Prefuse 73 “The Columbia” by Lackthereof “Elvis Cadillac” by Rickie Lee Jones “Four Three All India Radio” by… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Nov 16

  Thumb drive? Check. I do, after all, need to record the grades of the precious students enrolled in the US history course I TA for. Stack of history quizzes? Check.… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Oct 26

  It’s like, you know, flamenco piano: when you hear the first measures of just such a beast you recognize the form (flamenco) but don’t recognize the medium (piano) because your… more ›

• Das ist der Deal

  Oct 25

  Rarely does a day go by since I first heard this song in Germany that I don’t stop to listen to it or sit down to watch this video. Yes,… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Oct 19

  I had my first setback in about a month or so after beginning my new insomnia medications: I couldn’t get to sleep Tuesday ‘evening’ until about 2:00 am (Wednesday morning).… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Oct 5

  I’m enjoying my trek through Daniel Weissbort’s From Russian with Love, a book about his friendship(s) and (professional) relationship(s) with Joseph Brodsky, translation theory, Russian, literature, and death. It is… more ›

• Scivias

  Sep 26

  I remainTogether:t(w)o-gatheredA union w/o unityIdentity w/ differenceSingable yet always (yet) unsung remainderTwinned coils twining throughHere & (t)here & no(w)here:now/hereWo ist der Mensch?W(h)er(e) ist der Mensch?Here- her- he- achAnd a thou-Sand… more ›

• Il y a / n’est plus

  Sep 22

  A hundred years of his undying death articulating as if the singular unsaid, unsaying, unsayable, in its fully exteriorized impossibility against the homogenized totalization of a text, an other. He… more ›