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Sep 12, 2011 • I haven’t always had it easy. Who has? I take that back. I actually have ALWAYS had it easy. Easier than almost everyone ever. I’ve been spared nearly all imaginable traumas, I have marketable talents, my parents are alive, people enjoy my company, I’m deeply in love with a beautiful wife and I have healthy...
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Sep 11, 2011 • I’ve been on edge all day. It felt familiar – perking up at every siren… shit did they hit us again?? What WOULD be the best evacuation route? And where would we go? North, I guess. Every day after 9/11 – for at least a full year – I’d wonder, “will it be today??” Shit....
I become increasingly germophobic, daily. It surprises me. Maybe it’s just a phase coinciding with the small children I need to protect. I mean, I wash my hands all day long, but it’s usually because there’s baby feces on them. But I realized yesterday I didn’t want to pet the cat (we have a foster...
I don’t know. There are many things that Jo and I never had to talk about, to be on the same page. Especially with parenting, I know we are so lucky to share the same thinking about so many things. Here’s one: neither of us would ever tell our little girls that ANYTHING or ANYONE...
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Aug 25, 2011 • I’m simultaneously working on two stories set in the future. One way way ahead and the other really close. Is that a bad idea? Two totally different worlds, with absolutely different tones and formats and stories to tell. This is true: the one in the distant future takes place in Brooklyn and the one in...
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Aug 25, 2011 • We came back from vacation to mice this Summer. For about a month, they terrorized us with their tiny poop. I won’t say they didn’t break my will – too negative… but they won many battles in at the beginning of the war. The images below were captured by the new motion-sensor security cameras. The...
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Aug 25, 2011 • For consideration in this esteemed canon, I submit the first episode of this past season of South Park (Season 15, Ep 1). Most every episode of South Park has a beautifully loony balance of thought-provoking and thought-retarding scenes. This one is batshit crazy, extraordinarily gross and TRULY FUNNY. And stupid. So nice. Season 15?! These...
