Archive for June, 2009

Calm before the storm

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

It’s the wee hours before I go to work; when I first woke, forty-five minutes ago, the sky over Harlem was a dull, tiger-lily orange. (What are sailors supposed to make of that? I forget.) Kate hummed a little as I climbed back into bed and rubbed her back. The instant I [...]

Tweets of the day

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

08:46 Chopping mangos, making coffee, expecting weekend guests delayed by inclement weather, Booker T on the stereo, sourdough on the rise. #fb #
08:59 Man goes. Men go. Go, man, go! Mangoes grow as men go; Men grow as man goes. Grow, mango! Grow, man! Go grow! As man grows, grows mango. #

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Tweets of the day

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

06:59 If *I* were 37+ weeks pregnant and working overnight shifts, I’d be snarling and biting the heads off bats. My chill wife is a rockstar. #
13:13 I am rockin’ my Mr. Bento lunch.. pail. box. containers. Really, it most resembles a set of nesting matryoshka dolls, except made of lunch. #
14:25 RT @baratunde: after [...]

Tweets of the day

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

24 hours of micro updates:

19:10 RT @erdanton: Sanford spent the past five days crying in Argentina? Hasn’t he seen "Evita?" #

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Infinite Summer

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Okay, people I’ve given Infinite Jest over the years. Here’s your chance to actually read and (hopefully) enjoy the book. Via the excellent kottke.org:

the challenge
Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages1 ÷ 92 days = 75 [...]