Closets
I’m missing the days when I was missing home.1 With Honor : This Is Our Revenge : Closets↩
Karma Kafe
Since one of the major search strings leading to my site this month has been the words “Karma Kafe complaints”, I would like to note right now that I do not have one single complaint about the Karma Kafe. It is, quite simply, my favorite restaurant in the world and I encourage everyone and anyone [...]
What One Avoids
Virtue consists less in how one handles the situations one is in than in the situations one knows to avoid getting into.
When Infatuation Has Passed
When a relationship is meant to be, love comes to fill the void that the departure of infatuation and the excitement of constantly newfound discoveries about the other person leaves behind. But this sort of love’s arrival can hurt, because there is in it an absence of the intensity that was present earlier in the [...]
A Real Drummer
You are not a real drummer until your playing sounds better than a drum machine’s; you are not a real drummer until your timing, groove and dynamics are consistently more musically appropriate than a machine’s performance could ever be. Until you are a real drummer, a band is better off just using a drum machine [...]
Today, I Am Not Sick
Today, I am not sick. I woke up today at 6 AM and I have stayed awake since then as I wasn’t tired enough at that hour to go back to bed after having had a long sleep since 10 PM, even if one punctuated by frequently waking up in the middle of the night [...]
An Irony
When we meet someone who clearly conceals their feelings and themselves, we can see them and their feelings all too easily.
After A Long Storm
The world is most beautiful after a long storm.
Quote Of The Day
Mike Depinto: All these years we’ve been overlooking a great restaurant just a block from your house. Manny Ferndandez: (Confused.) The bagel shop? Mike Depinto: Ali Baba’s, dude.1 Mike Depinto, Manny Ferndanez : A Conversation Recounted To Me : January 17th, 2005↩
To Give Oneself Over
One learns a great deal about a character by his reactions to art: one learns how much he gives himself over to things. And this is the major factor in how much he can then give.