Remembering by living
Aaron has left us. Beautiful and honest eulogies pouring in from around the world make it clear how many people and ideas his short life touched. You should go read those. But for my own personal emotional processing, I’m going [...]
When you meet a giraffe
I went to the Giraffe Center in Nairobi today. They’ve successfully brought an endangered species of giraffe back from the edge of extinction. But also, they let you feed the giraffes. This is what that looks like:
I woke up today / In a very simple way
Don’t you love when you get into a song and its chorus just happens to coincide with your resolution of the week? This hasn’t happened to me since I discovered Okkervil River’s The President’s Dead right before Gerald Ford passed, [...]
Garbage Pail Kids Reincarnated
Looking back, these were probably the most foul things my parents let us near in the otherwise innocent ’80′s. I remember not being allowed to buy the most super-disgusting Ninja Turtle villain. I couldn’t find a picture of him but [...]
Grandpa
My Dad’s eulogy for his dad, my granddad: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end [...]
The Welcome Wagon
Justin laid The Rhinocerus Egg and breaks the tie on brothers blogging vs. having a life, with Jeff now the minority in the latter category. Chandler joins The Cult of Pure Banality. Despite being unemployed, the only time Chandler can [...]
Moving Day
My own personalized version of hell will involve shoe shopping and furniture moving. And it will be really cold out. I got a little preview this weekend. My parents invited me to come down to Boca Raton, Florida with them [...]
