Archive for the 'bloggy stuff' Category

My Friend Ray Is Looking For A Gold Digger, I Hear

December 3rd, 2008

I just blogged about My Friend Ray’s $60,000 diet bet on the CityPaper’s blog and the first thing Ray said to me when he saw the blog was, “Man, I wish some gold digger would come along and help me lose some weight so I could treat her right when all this is over.”


look who’s in town - do you know who this is?

November 18th, 2008

the cnmi’s first member of congress, enjoying some noodles at raku


go Nats? go where?

October 8th, 2008

 as someone I (barely) know put it yesterday: they’re having YOU write about baseball?

well indeed!  baseball and free tickets and scalpers and libertarians in this week’s CityPaper.


beautiful weather

October 7th, 2008



from the podcast Big Ideas

September 11th, 2008

Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist, who says:
There is the possibility of something beautiful and true and new. But to find it requires spending a lot of tedious hours alone working on it.


heller works at the court. don’t know why this matters but it seems noteworthy.

September 9th, 2008

from the complaint that got the DC gun ban case started:
“Plaintiff Dick Anthony Heller is a natural person and a citizen of the United States
and of the District of Columbia. Mr. Heller resides in a high-crime neighborhood and is a
Special Police Officer of defendant District of Columbia. As a Special Police Officer, Mr. […]


nap time near Dupont Circle

August 22nd, 2008



where does this stuff come from?

August 20th, 2008



in my home town, the birds all go to heaven

August 15th, 2008

this is a birdhouse in front of a church in East Greenwich, RI
sparrow services at 5am, robins at 9.
my new CityPaper story is out, too, and in it you will learn why you are lucky not to be online dating. not that I speak from experience.


scrabulous has been disabled on facebook

July 30th, 2008

and the author struggles to find a reason to go on with life

le sigh