The New Orleans Saints: A Benediction
The New Orleans Saints are playing in Super Bowl XLIV this Sunday and it’s officially a thing. I knew it was a thing – officially – when my sister, an ornithologist and the world’s foremost expert on the Swainson’s warbler, a small swampy bird that’s notoriously tough to spot, gave me the run down on [...]
Read Moresynesthesia (writing)
These past four months or so I’ve been preparing myself for the novel I promised myself I’d write before my 28th birthday [update: not my first, but the long overdue second attempt]. My problem has never been with words, more with plot and accessibility – that’s where the poetry business comes in – so basically [...]
Read Morethe week i got stolen
I knew, as it was happening, that a pre-dawn livery cab ride across state lines was bad news. Those drivers aren’t used to 3 AM straight-aways, they go too fast. Then, approaching Newark Int’l Airport, the whole freighted gestalt of a fluorescent Anheuser-Busch billboard behind an honest-to-god smokestack looking like an industrial fire. And finally, [...]
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