Impossible to work

I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve spent the past week with my nose firmly stuck in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. If you haven’t read it, or don’t know who Alasdair Gray is, you should really get started on correcting this deficiency. I’ll help you out.
Alasdair Gray is a Glaswegian novelist, poet, playwright, visual artist […]

If you know me, or have been reading this blog, you’ll know that my friend Paul is a photographer and that he is currently in Lebanon. He also occasionally writes “dispatches” for The Digital Journalist. His latest dispatch is available here. It’s pretty good (then again, I edit most everything he writes and am therefore […]

A few months ago (read: a year ago) I was at 57th Street Books with Sepoy. We were looking for a book for a present for someone or maybe we were just in the bookstore poking about. But odds are we were there to buy something for somebody since whenever you need to buy somebody […]

When I say Oklahoma you probably think cowboys and indians. Maybe you think of a particularly nasty Race Riot. You might think of the Flaming Lips. Most likely, you classify it as one of the red states, and it is. But today, it’s made a  step forward.
I try to keep up with gay issues in […]

Done. The men who moved my stuff were amazing. If you’re looking for a mover, I’ve got a recommendation.
It’s nice to be going from an apartment with no ventilation and hardly any way to circulate the air in it efficiently to a place with lots of windows and ceiling fans.
The big deep tub is nice […]

My apartment is slowly coming together. I’ve been thinking nonstop about what to do to make the place comfortable and homelike. So I’ve been looking at a lot of really pretty pictures of items I will never be able to afford. Sarah (who, in addition to being a great collaborator is a low budget home […]