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Another Ill-Mannered Appliance

My fridge is a little bit broken. Not full-on, throw out your food and scream at the landlord broken, but a little. It’s been not that cold in there for days. I threw out the milk on Monday; we stopped … Continue reading

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Winter Is A Rotten Child

Sleep, vi: The most wonderful pastime for a young man to engage in, short of training for the circus. Sheet, n: A most wondrous place for a young man to engage in the above pastime. Works best in pairs, which … Continue reading

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Insomnia Over Medium

Asked to describe my current state of consciousness, I would need one word only. Loathsome. I came to wakefulness with a start at around 5:30 AM—two hours ago—in a fevered state apparently brought on by unremembered unpleasant dreams. It was … Continue reading

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Breakfast Fast Fast

I’m writing this in the Baltimore airport, home of that fly flyboy Arby’s, but to my left is not roast beef. Rather, I have carried with me a sandwich fragment, as precious and slight as a few lines of Sappho, … Continue reading

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On Love And Farting

Butternut squash—fuck off. It’s May again. Well, not really. But it was 71 degrees in New York today, and the temperature provided a much needed timewarp to six months ago or six months from now. It is a change of … Continue reading

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A Bedroom Safari

For the last few nights, rather than eating, I have been food. For the first time since the start of summer mosquitos have invaded, pouring into my apartment through the ducts of unused air-conditioners to feast of my sleeping form. … Continue reading

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Reluctant Breakfast Warrior

I woke up on Saturday at 9:45. I had been dreaming about dinner, which reminded my slumbering consciousness of breakfast, a thought which ripped my eyes open without any ceremony of yawning, stretching, or general lazing around. I had left … Continue reading

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Leisure Headache

I write this not at the glass and steel expanse that is my usual workstation, but splayed out backwards onto my sofa, computer on my lap, craning my neck towards the desk fan which is endeavoring to import a little … Continue reading

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The Most Important Meal of Today

Rather uncharacteristically of myself, I’m writing on a Saturday and my topic is breakfast. But today is the Fourth of July, and therefore a day for shattering convention. (Also fireworks.) And since I’m writing about a breakfast that happened at … Continue reading

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Chipotle is Dumb

I was going to start this post with a metaphor, but I am much too full. This is a good thing, as an excess of posts on this blog have been about managing hunger. I am now typing only because … Continue reading

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