I almost never remember my dreams, but lately I’ve found myself recalling one now and again. Last week, I dreamed an episode of the long-defunct sitcom Night Court revolving around lecherous prosecutor Dan Fielding, who as the episode closes has just decided to abjure some kink or other. Then, as the credits roll, we get […]

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So I’m hoping I might harness the distributed genius of Teh Internets for a long-term project I’m working on. I’m looking for stories that fit the following description: A big group—maybe a whole society, maybe an organization within it, like a corporation or government agency—is involved in doing something that’s not just morally wrong, but […]

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Whew. Well, after far too much hooha, I’ve extracted what was salvagable from my hard drive, wiped it, and done a clean reinstall, the result of which is that the machine appears to be running better than ever. Memo to self: Set up weekly backups of the hard drive in the even this happens again. […]

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No, no, I haven’t abandoned blogging forever. My laptop is hosed, and (having managed to get it running off a bootable external HD) I’m devoting way too much energy to learning my way around the OSX Unix shell as I try to figure out how much of my data I can recover. (Doubly a waste […]

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So after three years at Reason, I’ve switched to Contributing Editor status, which means I’ll still be writing and blogging for them regularly, but not on full-time staff, which should give me some time to work on a whole bunch of other projects I’ve wanted to get to for a while—among them, actually posting here […]

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So, over the past couple days, numerous friends have approached me with some equivalent of “Hey, there’s this movie Brick, and one of the characters is you…” Now, since I was about ten, I’ve been hearing I look slightly like Lukas Haas, so I quickly guessed that he was the actor in question. But they […]

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I put on Pretty Hate Machine the other day; first time in years. And hey, there we go, quicker than you can say “tea-soaked madeline,” I’m black-clad 13, dark jeans and a 2600 T-shirt, denim jacket with the circle-A patch—Chuck Taylors slapping pale green tile and “The Only Time” on headphones blocking locker doors’ clang. […]

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…is also the frighteningly talented winner of this year’s Felix Morley Journalism Prize. That much concentrated awesomeness seems almost unjust… but nobody’s figured out how to redistribute awesomeness to the less awesomely endowed, so she’s probably safe—for now.

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I’m fundamentally a little flaky, so any kind of cognitive outsourcing I can do when it comes to keeping myself organized and remembering when I need to do what is invaluable. So I’m glad amigo Tim has hepped me to 30 Boxes, which is a web-based calendar with a couple of handy features. One nice […]

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So, as I mentioned in a previous post, I’m fresh back from a trip to Madrid and Paris with the lovely Kerry Howley—about which I expect I’ll have more to say once I’m over my jet lag. But here’s one observation about cultural differences: Automatic ticket machines seem not to work in these two great […]

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