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Month: September 2008

  • RIP DFW

    It’s taken me a few days to write this post, partly because I’ve been busy (remarkable in itself, since I’m officially unemployed right now), and partly because I’m still not really sure what I want to say. David Foster Wallace committed suicide last Friday, and the world lost an acrobatic writer and a dazzling mind.…

  • The Republican Ticket

    I’ve been off the grid for a couple weeks, backpacking with my brothers. We embarked a day or two after McCain announced his surprising (and IMHO almost surreal) choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate. This, and she, dominated the headlines as we headed into the mountains, and I was hoping the shock and…