I know very little about Paul Simon’s life. Jewish, New Yorker, married to Edie Brickell. That’s about it. So it’s fitting that last night while that boring SNL 40th Anniversary special was on TV and…
Browsing Category Loneliness
Connoisseurs
This is the more I had to say about Sexy Baby. Apparently Friday is the new tomorrow. P.Holt was a project manager when I was a copywriter at Jasc, a little software company in Eden…
This is Really a Post About Soup
Before I get to the soup you should go listen to The Soup Dragons’ Divine Thing. My mind latched onto that song last night when I was making the soon-to-be-mentioned soup mostly because singing Sunken-Eyed…
The sweet-smelling ghost that haunts me
I took a shower this morningish (it was before noon, so still morning, right?), which is unusual. Since beginning the freelance lifestyle I’ve opted to move bathing to nightish and spend a lot of time…
Loneliness is a choice
My friend Steve thinks he’s funny. Little did he know when he let that bit of wit loose on the world that I was totally planning on using writing group for therapy this evening. And…
What fiction ought to be
“He and Franzen talked a lot about what writing should be for. “We had this feeling that fiction ought to be good for something,” Franzen says. “Basically, we decided it was to combat loneliness.” This…