Jetta owners rejoice in their ability to balance car ownership with primordial behavior. Since injuring my foot a couple of weeks ago, I’ve seen more TV than a cabbie sees middle fingers. Stuck on the couch with my leg propped up and draped in ice packs, there’s not much else to do but turn on [...]
Category Archives: The World According to Nouns
Bastards of Young
25-Apr-05Jackpot
20-Mar-05Today, my friend Ian packed up his things and headed back to England. We’d fallen out of touch over the past couple of years, but Friday night we had the chance to catch up again. It was good to see him before he left. The following is part of a longer piece I’ve been working [...]
Update: Nathan has a slightly different account. I think his version is more exciting, regardless of which is closer to the truth. See his side of the story here. Spring, 1993: I sat quietly in the Vice Principle’s office while he grumbled at me for some offense I do not recall. Odds are it was [...]
Four Years in Fourteen Songs
30-Jan-05In January, you leave your whole life 2500 miles behind in search of something better. You step out of a taxi and into a new world. The next day, as you’re engulfed in a strange daze of hope and loneliness, it snows on your way to the subway, and the buildings down Third Avenue evaporate [...]