by Adam | Wednesday 28 May 2008
A brief TFR shout-out to Michael Maze for bringing this wonderful piece to my attention. This is pretty special, everyone should read this...as I'm learning...this means me. Selfishly, I'd like to connect it to a post I recently wrote about...
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by Adam | Tuesday 20 May 2008
I go to Central Park three times a week now that school is out and I'm also slightly unemployed. Pardon the dust, we are renovating here. My friend Mike calls and asks where I am. It had been raining off-and-on...
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by Adam | Monday 19 May 2008
FRANKFURT, Germany, May 16 (UPI) -- A German scientist has proved that people forced to smile and take on-the-job insults suffer more and longer-lasting stress that may harm their health. Dieter Zapf of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt...
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by Adam | Friday 16 May 2008
The next day I started reading Goodbye, Columbus. The End...
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by Adam | Wednesday 14 May 2008
It's hardly credible how it's 3 A.M. again on Sunday -- Mother's Day May -- and I've put my flask on a stranger's sill and bared my chest getting smaller by the year. The blinds are down in the...
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by Adam | Tuesday 6 May 2008
It’s 12:56 A.M. on the seis of Mayo which is to say the evening didn’t end as surreptitiously as nights do where a tequila tradition prevails. My friend works for the city (not just any city, but New York) and...
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by Adam | Friday 2 May 2008
it makes everything seem possible. This all came from one day, last Monday, which was the first day of spring. First the aliens landed: On the subway uptown I turned the tables on a sketcher: I ran around the reservoir...
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