It was a lot of work, but I’ve finally launched TheBloodThatBonds.com. The site is dedicated to promoting my novel, which I’ve released as a free eBook in a variety of formats (with more coming). Please check it out and forward it to anyone you think might be interested!
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really didn’t expect that it’d be so easy to find a book that’s even more depressing, startling, and at times outright uncomfortable than Requiem for a Dream, but all one really has to do is look to Selby’s earlier work, Last [...]
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hubert Selbey Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream is a hard book to read … not due so much to its sensitive subject matter, which is frankly riveting, as to Selby’s unconventional, stream-of-consciousness prose. The guy barely believes in basic punctuation marks, let [...]
The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life by Eugene Mirman
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
I’ve seen Eugene do stand-up several times, and he’s pretty funny, though not my favorite comic of all time. His style of humor is relaxed, sometimes self-deprecating, often ironic and … confused? It’s not uncommon for him to [...]
More photography today — I’m still learning the new digital camera. I’m a fan of pictures with a really tight depth of field, meaning one thing in focus and most of the rest of the stuff blurred out. It was a hard effect to get on my previous camera in part because it didn’t allow [...]
My wife and friends are all doing this on facebook, and I’ll be posting it there as well, but what the heck … might as well post it to ye olde blog too.
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Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At [...]
Charlotte and I have decided to go to Hawaii for our honeymoon at the beginning of March. I’ve been holding off buying a new digital camera after stupidly losing mine, but we both agreed that it was crazy not to have a nice camera while we’re spending two weeks in a tropical paradise, so we [...]
Between the post about not having played Portal (which I’ve since rectified) and this post, I’m beginning to think that I should have a “shameful secrets” section on this blog. I mean, let’s be honest here … this is a pretty absurd admission. I barely even watch television, normally — an occasional “Iron Chef” or [...]
Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York by Randy Kennedy
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
If you live in New York City, which I do, the subway is probably a substantial part of your life. Even if you don’t, it’s a pretty fascinating place to visit, in person or in print. Randy Kennedy’s collection [...]
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 [...]
