Cloverfield is the latest movie to take the form of the false document. It’s also utterly gripping. The movie is supposedly filmed by the geeky one in a bunch of New York City twenty somethings, whose charmed, neurotic life comes to an abrupt end during the course of the movie at the jaws of a […]
After two weekends out of town and away from running shoes, Saturday meant a return to longer marathon runs. Unfortunately, Friday saw an unexpected return to my old habit of getting completely plastered on a Friday night and Saturday morning was cloudier than a late night jazz club pre-smoking ban, so the run got postponed.
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Yesterday I found myself on the beach, and not just yesterday actually. But yesterday the beach had a dream-like inescapability. I was trapped in the vastness.
This surfeit of time gave me an idea: to write a wiki article, and yes, I had the perfect subject: boreout.
I once had the misfortune of working in telemarketing; ‘being paid to piss people off’ was how I thought of it. But I did learn one or two lessons from my months in the wilderness of Madonna-style headsets and levels of tedium that could kill lab mice: be nice to other telly marketers.
Most people on […]
