I’m giving a rather Steve Jobs-ish presentation. I’ve invented an alarm clock with variable Snooze settings. Hit this button for 40 extra minutes of sleep. This one for only five. And if you don’t want to buy it, no problem. I’ve got instructions on how to re-wire your existing machine – – you’ll just have […]
A variation on the dining hall scene from Ridley Scott’s Alien. The characters aren’t the cast from the film. (They’re familiar from somewhere though.) There’s a lot of running up and down stairs. It’s not a matter of multiple takes so much as we keep needing to retrieve items from the deck below where the […]
I’m about 15 years old but have somehow snuck myself into this 4th grade field trip with three other guys. A true-to-life/in-the-flesh Ms. Hoover (from The Simpsons) is the class teacher. The field trip is to some school (a high school?) that’s 6 stories high. I have some kind of vendetta to extract here. Three […]
There’s some kind of “build your own bike” web meme going around. Basically everyone is posting there 10 Steps (always 10 Steps) on how to build their own bike. For most folks it’s more like “list 10 ingredients” than “10 steps”. I’m not participating per se (I have no real interest in building a bike […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time with David Foster Wallace’s family. So much time that his parents have started to affectionately call me “son” and basically treat me as one of their own. On the night in question, I return to their home quite late (having spent most of that night at a warehouse […]
Throughout the week we’ve been eating at this long table. Very Thanksgiving-ish – – but it’s been more/less a physical manifestation of this RPG that we’ve been playing. It’s a Marvel/City-of-Heroes sort of thing where everyone has super-powers but they’re only really applicable in the game context. It all gets kind of weird because the […]
There’s a dire need to get snow tires on our cars despite the fact that it’s still late summer and the leaves haven’t turned yet. This urgent responsibility is somehow complicated by the fact that there’s this swanky dinner party type event going on in our house. Guests are generally well-dressed (a black dress cocktail […]
My alma mater, St. Mary’s College of Maryland is now offering a graduate program with MAs and PhDs in an assortment of arts and sciences. In the (true?) St. Mary’s spirit, it’s a remarkably rigorous program (on paper at least) and folks are competing rather aggressively to get in. An announcement has gone out that […]
A 40 year old’s flashback to his late-teens, early-twenties but performed as a film or television program where the actors are 5-10 years older than the ages they portray. I play myself but as a 17? 18? year old with a 25 year old’s body. The layout is essentially my parents’ Tulip Drive house from […]
A & I are living in a somewhat-larger-than-we-need house but are renting out half of it to a couple of other folks. We would probably not have engaged in this arrangement if not for the dire necessity of it but it seems to be working out OK because they’re hardly ever around. A is hardly […]