The Flying Tiger |
My mom just wrote me an e-mail, to tell me that the family came over to America 50 years ago today-- on an airplane called the Flying Tiger, so she says.
There were ten of them at the time, three gene...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:19:00 GMT |
Astrology. Taking Over my Brain. |
When I was a kid, my mother became borderline obsessed with a series of mechanisms that ostensibly explain your personality and behavior.
There was Meyer's Briggs-- this test that, from the coldness o...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:59:00 GMT |
Want to be a Star? |
I didn't realize- until I read Primo Levi's fiction piece in last week's New Yorker- that it was such a tired convention to glamourize human beings by comparing them to extra terrestrial phenomena lik...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:33:00 GMT |
Class Theory |
"The life of the rich is but one long Sunday."
-GEORG BuCHNER, Woyzeck-
Posted by on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:58:00 GMT |
Your Opinion |
"If you enjoy the opinions you posess, if they give you a glow, be suspicious. They may be posessing you. An opinion should be treated like a guest who is likely to stay too late and drink all the whi...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:36:00 GMT |
Viva, Viva |
"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. ...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:17:00 GMT |
