JOURNAL
Oct
08
2021
Potpourri:
Losing friends in your 40s seems to have maybe a higher price than before. I’ve matriculated through several sets in my adult life ...
Jan
09
2021
Day 4: Exhaustion
Briefly: I reached a point of exhaustion today.
Jan
08
2021
Day 3: January 8, 2021
I thought at first that I would “write something” about the utterly shocking but wholly unsurprising events of the last few days
Dec
16
2020
this is weird
Pandemic’s got me thinking
Dec
09
2020
the only thing
The only thing I strive to reject completely is the puritanism of my ancestors
Nov
23
2020
Cortege 11.23.2020
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Aug
12
2020
About the only
About the only affiliation I accept in this life is that I’m a Democrat. Not a joiner, and not even formally a member of the Democratic Party. But I’m a Democrat.
Jun
23
2020
Autodidact.
When you teach a child the right way to do a thing, and then the “right” way to do a great many other things, that child’s brain changes in response. It’s an adaptation, and there’s no “go-back button,” least none that I’m aware of.
Jun
18
2020
How it looks from here
The other night I watched Dave Chappelle’s new show 8:46. Highly recommended.
Jun
14
2020
Freedom and Fragility
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May
26
2020
Teachers
I was at times a pretty mediocre piano student. At times, better than mediocre. Looking back, I’ve wondered why my teachers weren’t a bit harsher—it’s almost like I got this watered-down version of the dope, because they thought I didn’t care. I kind of acted like I didn’t.
May
24
2020
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.
I’m as worried about this upcoming election as I am about the pandemic
May
20
2020
This is bananas . . .
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May
20
2020
Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende statt
Out of nowhere, during the concluding fugue, I was dissolved in tears and exclaimed, in spite of myself, “It’s so good. Thank God for this.”
May
20
2020
I dreamed
That I moved in with an old gay couple, and then promptly bought a 1987 Buick Riviera from the “wife,”
May
19
2020
I got a little careless with the Uber Eats
First of all, inadvertent admission. I deleted UE from my phone when I found out how bad they fuck over restaurants.
May
17
2020
Je pense . . .
On the veranda. Atlanta under some earlier-than-expected rain. It is very, very pleasant.
May
17
2020
French People Is Coming
FRENCH PEOPLE! FRENCH PEOPLE! FRENCH PEOPLE!
May
16
2020
Taking a break.
I’ve decided to take a one week break from all social media
May
13
2020
The Externalities, The Help and Enjoying a Good Ham Burgher
I was explaining to my father yesterday that the cost of meat in this country is artificially low, due to externalities like corn subsidies, pollution downstream from pig farms, destruction of habitat for cattle grazing, etc.
May
11
2020
When confronting fear of the future
One of my earliest memories is getting up really early morning and deciding that I was going to make Mom and Dad breakfast—do something nice for them.
