CerebralDebris

I am a lucky man.

Well, we’re nearing holiday season, and like many other Americans, the holidays often serve to remind me that there’s a whole big world out there full of people less fortunate than myself. Each year I try to make some donations - the amount of which varies based on how I’m doing that year. It’s something [...]

First off, for full disclosure: I did not vote for Barack Obama. Nor did I vote for John McCain. Nor did I abstain from voting due to some kind of personal reason. I went out to PS 282 in Brooklyn, NY, and voted for Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party. While I am not a [...]

I’d like to preface this update by saying it’s not a “woe is me” post but more of a random musing. New York City and its economic dynamics fascinate me because they don’t seem to behave in a way that has any relation to the rest of the country. I made the choice to live [...]

Charlotte and I are headed out to Long Island with several of our friends for this long weekend. Monday is Labor Day for those of us in the states, and I couldn’t put it any better than Futurama’s own Hermes:
Hermes: “Labor Day? That phoney-baloney holiday crammed down our throats by fatcat union gangsters.”
Fry: “That’s the [...]

We’re going to Coney Island tonight to take in a Brooklyn Cyclones game and, most likely, wander the boardwalk afterward. There’s a chance of rain but hopefully the storms will pass us by and we’ll get to spend the evening in relative warmth and dryness.
Normally I would use this occasion to take a ton of [...]

My life sometimes seems like it was specially prepared to demonstrate Murphy’s Law. To wit: it’s not enough that I managed to leave my messenger bag in a cab on Friday night … thus pretty much condemning my Nintendo DS to being sold at some crappy pawn shop by an unscrupulous cab driver. No, that [...]

Everyone should watch this trailer for the movie my brother directed as his final project in film school. Then they should watch the movie on YouTube at the links below. Then they should email narcloft@hotmail.com and buy a copy on DVD. For $10, you’re not going to find a better college project zombie apocalypse movie [...]

The nice thing about living in New York City as opposed to a smaller town is that there’s a near-infinite number of things to do at any given time. Sometimes, though, one forgets to take advantage of these things and ends up spending nights on the couch staring at the television. My fiancée and I [...]

I’ve added pages seven through thirteen of Persephone’s Fall, the illustrated novella I wrote a few years ago. You can find the index on my Writing Page. I’ve also renewed my efforts to get my first novel published — I’ve been re-reading it for the first time in quite a while, and I’m pleased to [...]