i’ve been blogging in one form or another since 1999. my motivations for doing it have changed over those 10 years, from catharsis to ego-tripping to therapy to writing exercise. i realized recently that all the writing i’ve done here, so much of it terrible and chronicling terrible things, is the best gift i have […]
well. this was an impressive game, right down to the finish (which, in the last 30 seconds, included a personal foul for unnecessary roughness, a fumble by the Giants which was then recovered by the Eagles, and a fight that broke out as the clock wound down). DeSean Jackson in particular just kicked ass.
it’s clear that Donovan McNabb and Michael Vick get along well (and for this we thank god, after having lived through T.O. a few years ago). just based on the relatively small sampling of photos of today’s game culled from The Daily News, it’s pretty much a lovefest out on the field.
so now for something a bit lighter. i made some LOL Eagles. i realize that that, demographically, the audience for this is vanishingly small (somehow, i don’t think many Eagles fans know what LOLcats are, but perhaps i’m underestimating). there are some inside jokes that you may not get if you’re not a fan. enjoy!
i was lucky enough to procure the use of a bike during the two and a half weeks i was in Davis. Davis is an unusually bike-friendly city, not only with bike lanes on every street, but also with dedicated bike paths that wind through many lovely areas, both on campus and off. i had […]
what follows is a complete transcript of the text messages my mother and i exchanged during the NFC championship game this afternoon (which the Eagles lost). she was at home in Lebanon, i was at a bar in New Bedford.
my mom’s texts are in bold.
2:07: ready for game @ 3??????
2:56: ready???????
2:59: Yooooou betchya!!!!
3:16: ridiculous.
3:17: calm […]
it seems like everyone my age (or slightly younger, at this point) is infected with the urge to travel internationally. perhaps i just gravitate toward similarity transient souls, but it seems like every time i turn around someone has gone to Singapore, London, Berlin, or is working on their house in Italy (that would be […]
on Tuesday, i had the opportunity to sit in on Alek’s graduate seminar class. seeing how UC Davis’ MFA program works was enlightening (it has a very different philosophy than the program i am currently in), though somewhat bittersweet because i realized that this is the sort of research i should have done before actually […]
so that flight i was worried about below? it turned out to be warranted. i had a small puddlejumper flight from Lehigh Valley International (which, by the way, is the nicest, most civilized airport ever) to Dulles, and it turned out to be the worst 50 minutes of air travel i’ve ever had. the meds […]
nyc subway self portrait, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
i often leave school very late at night. i don’t have a set time that i leave, but (especially this time of year) i almost always leave after dark. i park within a two block radius of school, usually just down Purchase Street. the first block of […]