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Tommer Dates Again: Entry 0.12
New year, new me. Just kidding. It’s a Friday night and I just played with my cat for a beat, while listening to Paul Simon, until I asked myself if I still had feelings for my ex-wife, who filed for divorce almost nine years ago, after six years of marriage. Given the therapy, the hookups,…
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Tommer Dates Again: Entry 0.11
My heart is broken today. I’m OK. I’ll be all right. But: Jésus fucking Cristo, life hurts for no good, goddamn reason. I told my mom, who called me after I texted her I was dumped today, the worst part of being a therapized 41yo in a moment like this is I have no choice…
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Tommer Dates Again: Entry 0.1
THE FUCKENING has not happened. It could have happened on Sunday, May 7, 2023, with Erin, not the same one from 0.09, no, there are so many Erins. None have brought about the fuckening, though some have tried. This Erin is an attorney, and has had a hard time finding a partner, while her siblings…
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Old Man’s War
Blurbs mean a lot to me. I put a great deal of trust in them, and time and again blurbs have proven an excellent curator of books. But blurbs are used and abused—like everything else. Old Man’s War has a blurb on its front cover that states the following— “…Scalzi’s astonishingly proficient first novel reads…
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Neuromancer, and a little Disney
I finished Neuromancer a few days ago during a long and delay-ridden day of travel. I carelessly gave it three stars.That was rash. Neuromancer continues to linger with me. It drips with PKD. But even more so this book inhabits Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. These two examples are obviously linked, but Scott’s adaptation of PKD…
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slouching towards indifference
The draw of Joan Didion is alluring. I’ve surrendered to her siren call before, and will again. I wax and wane with Didion—currently waning. Didion brings the esoteric to the mainstream. That’s the draw. People feel better about themselves when they read Didion. Readers feel smarter, and well read afterwards. I read Play it as…
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Tommer Dates Again: Entry 0.06
Hooo-oh-oooly shit, Ali has taken the lead. And then she left for a work trip to Paris and Dubai. Tonight (Wednesday, 3/22), Ricky and I went to the Blue Room at Third Man Records to see Okey Dokey and Zella Day. Michelle was there. Ricky and I both searched for her. She’s 5’2″, 40-yo, and…
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Oscar Wilde, and the Canon reconsidered
I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray a few days ago. I was astonished by how much I enjoyed this book. Astonished because I’ve grown weary of the Canon. Dusty, stodgy, and arcane feeling books written so long ago. Don’t read this as millennial angst. Mine isn’t the youth’s lament that traditionally bemoans its elder’s…
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Some sci-fi, a review
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Edition, October 1979 by Edward L. Ferman My rating: 2 of 5 stars Last week I watched an episode of a show called Mythic Quest. But alas, it was a flashback episode and essentially a one-off. The episode centered around three characters working at a sci-fi…
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Tommer Dates Again: Entry 0.03
This will be a dating digest post. I met six women in seven days, all Hinge matches. In chronological order: Jamie, Kristina, Chelsea, Laura, Dani, and Marin. I also saw Fitz and the Tantrums that week. They were phenomenal live. By Sunday, I was exhausted. Jamie and Kristina were video calls. I was supposed to…