Category: long story short

  • LinkedIn chat suggestion poem

    LinkedIn chat suggestion poem

    I willDon’t worryStay positiveLet me know if I can helpCheersI’ll talk to you soonI’ll talk to you laterOkay?Take careI’ll see you soonHave fun!Enjoy!😊

  • synesthetically noted

    Miniver Cheevypicks up the rice in the churchwhere the wedding has been

  • Carnegie Hill

    I’ve written a new song and have been learning how to play it. This is the first demo version I’ve felt comfortable enough to share more widely:

  • wooden houses

    I didn’t recognize my dopplegangerOn the road to SamarraUntil I saw John the Doorman,Heard the drunk, singing down the street“Let me come home!”

  • Old Man – neil young cover – acoustic uke

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19moVxFY9SI

  • Wish You Were Here (pink floyd cover), electric uke and looper

  • mediajunk.ie is back up

    thanks to my benefactor Declan we have kept the slightly shorter URL mediajunk.ie working for this site but when I moved the hosting to wpengine that was broken for a bit. Today I finally got around to checking how to fix the redirect at wpengine and it involved typing the domain in a box and…

  • 500 words on september

    Try to remember that melancholy mood associated now with September with that sound of the Fantastiks and cramming into that off-broadway setting to reveal the mysteries encoded on flatted vinyl disc before rushing off the end still untold to the port authority still a sewer of the sorts of people who feed on the sorts…

  • Too much oatmeal too late

    Trying to get B out the door for her east bay appointments, making steel cut oats the slow way, a bit too much milk so a touch more oats and done sooner than expected and thicker, cut with a bit of skim milk and tossed with berries, just too much food to eat too close…

  • Digestif

    Digestif

    I lay awake a while back having returned recently from Paris by way of Dublin pondering why we sleep, a question I thought long ago routed by the much deeper why do we wake at all, when it came to me from that other brain: we sleep to digest. This website apparatus also benefits from…

  • Let there be music

    I’m embedding this Joe Russo’s Almost Dead show (which comes very highly recommended from musicologist Jake Cohen) into my blog here to illustrate how “badging out” works as an open strategy for distributing content socially:

  • Hunkered down

    So here I am, locked down in the back room (well, it’s kind of in the front of the house but nevermind) while B hosts the weekly Saturday morning ladies’ breakfast for the women who live in our little neighborhood. How did I end up in some bizarro west coast version of a Cheever novel?

  • Truth in advertising

    Truth in advertising

    new ad shows off the iPhone’s flexibility.

  • Simple versus complex

    Simple versus complex

    Interesting how the Goog ranks results about carbohydrates in terms of authority: NutritionMD.org fitday.com verydayhealth.com diabetes.about.com nlm.nih.gov cdc.gov briancalkins.com Bodybuilding.com livestrong.com health.harvard.edu I recommend numbers 5, 6, and 10.  

  • Gratitude unbound

    Gratitude unbound

    I have a lot to be grateful for.

  • Old-school time travel

    Old-school time travel

    Privileged to read an advance draft of Martha Conway‘s stunning new novel, Thieving Forest, I was thrilled to attend her book launch party in San Francisco over the weekend. Besides the great spread of victuals and lovely wine (a champagne, a chablis, and a pinot noir) at the sadly now-closed Beast & the Hare, we also…

  • All I know is something

    …like a bird within her sang

  • Jumpstarting the flow

    The one thing I do know is that introducing even a mild amount of a toxin to an organism triggers a reaction designed to protect sensitive surfaces and vulnerable processes. Lubricants flow. The nose runs. The bowels stir. The coffee, the cigarette do their work. The flow needs spice.

  • write prompt

    my old enterzone pal Martha Conway has been tweeting things lately with hashtags like #writeprompt and #10minprompt and #amwriting. i love this! i want to play, so i just tweeted “The one thing I do know is…”

  • Not my longest blogging drought yet

    Stay tuned for more regular writingses.

  • One day in California, 1987

    One day in California, 1987

    What I do know is that at the end of the first set, Steve was basically a convert, utterly convinced that this was a thing and he was doing it. I’d gotten other friends to this point, especially after the exciting crescendo at the end of a first set. It’s a bit of a crossroads:…