archives for January 2005

suicidal suicidal suicidal! and furthermore

Wednesday 5 January 2005 | I like a cookie

It’s not four-thirty am on a Tuesday but also we know it doesn’t get much worse than this: it’s seven-thirty pm on a Sunday, I have two reviews to write tonight and a big feature piece on romantic comedies for Valentine’s Day and half a dozen capsule reviews tomorrow night, the cramps with some nice [...]

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not with a bang but with a whimper

Sunday 2 January 2005 | I like a cookie

The whimper, in this case, coming from N.’s hunched form as he sat miserably on my bed here in the Chez Zen dining room weeping inebriatedly after many glasses of wine at a cigar club (?!) with our big-swinging-dick venture-capital Info Mesa neighbor. And after a tortuous post-zazen “party” with the lights dimmed, everyone eating [...]

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