For all you OCD types who felt out of whack with a lopsided list, here’s the back 50: Back up your files. Getting to Empty is more of a process than an event. An ongoing process. That goes on and on. I should not even bother trying on a garment which is not charcoal, burgundy, [...]
December 2006
Jenny has said she’s not one for resolutions, and I’m with her: pulling “gonnas” out of your ass, as in “I’m gonna quit smoking” or “I’m gonna get in shape” or “I’m gonna quit pulling things out of my ass”, is a recipe for feelings of personal failure and severe depression in the cold, holiday-free [...]
So about three years ago I bought this couch: Big. Red. Room-dominating. Expensive as hell. (What can I say? I was going through a phase about shedding my infernal cheapness. And fuckery. So you see.) Anyway, it was/is a magnificent couch in its way, but it had no business being in my smallish, mid-century apartment. [...]
the communicatrix elsewhere: How to tell if your New Year’s resolution should be ‘find new career’
I know that as an aspiring actor, my favorite articles were (in order of desirability): pieces crammed full of proven, immediately actionable information from industry insiders interviews with industry insiders full of tips, even if tips were couched in “useless” prose (i.e., extracting said tidbits was up to me); interviews with industry insiders that were [...]