From the monthly archives:

May 2008

AIMS NextEinstein

AIMS NextEinstein…

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A Handy List of Great Wine Importers:
Terry Theise (Germany, Austria, France)
Kermit Lynch (France)
Alain Junguenet (France)
Louis/Dressner (France)
Kysela Pere et Fils (France) …

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According to Ferrari, all these excuses are just the procrastinator’s tissue-thin front for what’s happening on the subconscious level: “The chronic procrastinator knows he’s presenting a negative image, but he’d rather be perceived negatively for lack of effort than for lack of ability,” he says. “Lack of ability is a stable attribute, but lack of effort is shifting—it means you could do it, you might be able to do it.” Maybe it’s the “might” factor that allows us finally to draw a line between procrastination and writer’s block. A block is thick, insurmountable, cast in stone, “as impenetrable as the Great Pyramid,” in Clarke’s words. Procrastination is a more pliant creature. When we defer a challenge until a hazy, ill-defined “later,” one might say that we devalue future time and belittle our circumstances in it; but you could also say that we are irrationally exuberant about the future—it becomes an ascetic, distraction-free idyll where all appetites have been permanently gratified, where minutes stretch out as luxuriously as hours, where all our creative prayers are answered. You might even call procrastination a perverse form of optimism.

According to Ferrari, all these excuses are just the procrastinator’s tissue-thin front for what’s happening on the subconscious level: “The chronic procrastinator knows he’s presenting …

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Redhook Bait & Tackle (2/5) on Yelp.com

Redhook Bait & Tackle (2/5) on Yelp.com
Lots of character, and that’s great. But something of a coke line queuing at the restrooms the entire …

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Brownstone Billiards (2/5) on Yelp.com

Brownstone Billiards (2/5) on Yelp.com
Hard to rate a place this quixotic and oddball, but I’ll try. Don’t buy your drinks here—go across the street …

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Radical writers have always tilted against the publishing establishment—until the moment the doors open a little.

Radical writers have always tilted against the publishing establishment—until the moment the doors open a little.…

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Writers so fancy themselves as cultural guerrillas, sneaking in subtle messages of protest against the media-entertainment complex or any other form of totalitarianism.

Writers so fancy themselves as cultural guerrillas, sneaking in subtle messages of protest against the media-entertainment complex or any other form of totalitarianism.
Creative Underclass: …

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CBC Radio

This spring a Slate story of mine sparked some interest online, at Buzzfeed and 43 Folders, which led to this radio interview for a …

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