In February of 2004, I was trying to convince a small committee at Duke University that this dude named Kanye West was going to be the next big thing and we’d be silly to pass up the opportunity to sign him for a $15k concert. “I just don’t know about this Nine West character” they’d [...]

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The folks who invented the Flowbee© might have been on to something. To me, there’s nothing more I could ask for than a consistent cut that eliminates the necessity of interaction with barbers/stylsts. Unfortunately, the mechanics of such a cut involve the use of vacuums and spinning razor blades, the personal grooming equivalent of a [...]

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Playstation 2 Video Game System (negotiating repair with anonymous 14 year old via e-mail)
LOMO Soviet-Era Toy Camera (sitting on shelf, planning bolshevik revolution with disgruntled appliances)
Decorative Mirror (remains shattered underneath bed, which might explain my current love life or lack thereof)
Heart (ibid)
Oven Knob (determined that 400 degrees is actually the OFF position and vice versa)
Jumpshot [...]

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Happy 1st Birthday, Cam Jansen’s Protégé.
(if I knew you were coming, I would bake a cake…)
When I first started writing, I had no idea who my audience was… I still don’t. I’m not sure how half of you guys end up here, but thanks for coming!
Also, writing a “happy birthday blog” post probably ups my [...]

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I love the haiku. 5-7-5. So simple. My answering machine senior year asked people to leave their voicemail in haiku format. The recording itself was a haiku. (Don’t believe me? I’ve got evidence). The short format of the poem really forces you to say exactly what you mean to say.
I probably spent more time trying [...]

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I’m not sure what the statute of limitations is on this, but I have a confession to make: I’ve stolen crabs before. Not just from the ocean, but from professional crabbers.
You see, I grew up on a river on the Chesapeake. In the summertime, crabtraps line the channels everywhere. You have to slalom inside and [...]

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I am my parents’ child, not that there was any confusion about that. I guess what I mean to say is that I am definitely the product of their upbringing. My folks came up to DC this weekend to spend some quality time with me, and I guess now is a good time to write [...]

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For those of you who read this on a daily, semi-daily, or bi-monthly basis, I would imagine you are at least remotely interested in the happenings of my life. This blog is, after all, a mostly autobiographical account of things that go on in the bubble of my existence. For nearly the past year, I’ve [...]

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Excerpt from a Postcard:
“If you could only listen to one song on repeat for an entire cross-country road trip, what would it be and why?”

Click above for a quick slide show of random Polaroids taken west of the Mississippi

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At the end of Pier 45 in San Francisco, there’s a museum filled with coin-operated machines. If you drop 25 cents in a box and crank a wheel, you can watch a Marilyn Monroe silent film or footage from the Earthquake of 1906. You can have a wizard tell you your fortune (as featured in [...]

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