eliot and the evening
one of the foibles of being a copy editor is that your deadline is king, and so your social life sometimes falls by the wayside. being at a weekly, i get to work during the day like a normal person, but on thursday, our production day, outside life is put on hold ’til the paper … Read more
summer’s coming, winter’s running …
song for the day: “summer’s coming” by sean watkins, from the album blinders on it’s still spring — a fact about which a friend and i were arguing the other day. but the days are getting longer, the air is heating up, the bugs are coming out, and vegetables other than cabbages are being harvested. … Read more
cherry pie at 1 am
from the bookshelves: heretics, by g.k. chesterton i have a writer friend who tells me he’s going to write a book titled pancakes at midnight. that title has the perfect cadence to it … so much so that it’s a bit too perfect. no, my friends, “cherry pie at 1 am” is where it’s at … Read more
