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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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Tommer Dates Again: Entry 0.05
I had a second date with Marin on Monday, March 6. We played bar trivia, ended up with 0 points, and had a great time. But I felt no romantic chemistry – I even tried to force it – so I won’t be going further with her. I texted Susan on March 8, about a…
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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 0.04
I uninstalled the apps after meeting Susan, my one remaining Tinder match. Susan and I met at a bar semi-full of families and delightfully weird patrons with their dogs. She drank a couple Jack-and-Cokes. I drank a few stout beers. We talked until she had to run home to take her 11yo dog out for…
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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…
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Getting Old, an Ode to Presidents’ Day
Two years ago I started reading books about WW2. One after the other. I zeroed in on The Battle of the Bulge. I found these books enthralling. I even struck up a conversation with an old man while browsing the military history aisle at McKays. He recommended a book. So I bought and read that…
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Tommer Dates Again: Entry 0.02
I rejoined Tinder on Friday, January 27, 2023. I swiped for probably 30 minutes, mostly left. Anti-vaxxers, Trump lovers, religious nuts, couples looking for a third, profiles where the age didn’t seem to match the face by at least 10 years, profiles espousing various non-religious, gym-based cults, profiles espousing actual cults, profiles with longer bios…
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Play it as it Lays
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here’s a line from Play It As It Lays—“Hear that scraping, Maria?” That should be the sound of music to you.” You might have guessed the scene—an abortion.An abortion done in a room of a house by a man we can…
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The best of ‘22
or,
the inner sanctum5—The surprise book of the year. The Good Earth had a couple things going against it from the outset. One—the aforementioned William Goldman dig. And two–it’s a ubiquitous bookstagram darling.Now, this second thing shouldn’t even be a thing.It’s my own, and often misguided, contrarian instinct to doubt the wisdom of crowds—which in this case is…