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December 2009

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  • 2009-year-in-review
    December 31st

    2009: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

    Why we tick time off in years: we can say goodbye to all that, and start over.


  • what-happens-to-the-married
    December 30th

    WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MARRIED

    “what happens to the married / we live in a buddy comedy / we fight, kiss, and then eat chinese takeout / there’s a little acting / and we get lost / but i will take more”


  • heaven-driven-by-wires
    December 24th

    AT TIMES HEAVEN

    “you had me in between a rock and the back wall / the setting is all white / but at times / heaven feels driven by wires / rather than transcendence”


  • offbeat
    December 22nd

    OFFBEAT

    “he could not have been more offbeat or serious / as he banged the drum / in the dark”


  • December 18th

    PERMIT LOSING

    signs + iphone camera + trickery = de-signs


  • December 17th

    THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE ARTIST

    “the co-founder of the artist is the house we grow up playing in”


  • December 16th

    MY LISTENING YEAR, 2009

    The best albums and songs I listened to this year and the best live shows I saw.


  • December 15th

    MATHEMATICAL

    “we are mathematical in a way / that is why we work”


  • December 14th

    MY READING YEAR, 2009

    Ten good books I read in 2009.


  • December 10th

    VISUAL THINKING FOR WRITERS: NOTES AND SLIDES

    A catalogue of visual thinking techniques I’ve discovered over the past couple of years that have helped me with my own writing.


  • December 8th

    UNTOUCHED

    “i had never sold out the hall / before the crowd showed up early just to hang me…”


  • December 1st

    GALLEYS!

    We got the galleys (uncorrected proofs) for Newspaper Blackout in the mail today.