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Category Archives: writing

Bits of text. Snippets of conversations that I have in my head. Story seeds. This sort of thing.

On the remembering

There are pieces—more like remnants, really—everywhere.  Tiny things.  Things she would have missed on the way out.  To be honest, they had stopped showing up after the first year.  After the second, they were scooped up and thrown into trash or donated to Goodwill if they were feasible.  After a while I didn’t think about [...]

Circling In

I normally enjoy the walk in, although lately the weather is too cold in the morning and then slowly changes as I get closer to work to, “too hot to wear a jacket.”  It seems like this morning is particularly bad, as traffic does not want to let me cross and I’ve caught every single [...]

The smallest thing

I remember very clearly.
It’s a colder spring day in 1996 and I’m shivering in my long wool coat.  Despite living in the District for three winters, I still haven’t learned to layer.
I look over to my girlfriend, and she’s occupied with driving.  She shifts matter of factly in the stop and go traffic on Rockville [...]

Book versus Movie

I caught the Watchmen in IMAX which was great.
I felt like the combination of high definition digital projector, overpowering sound system (used judiciously) and good seating all came together with a very visual movie to push my experience over the top.  Now a lot of people disliked the movie and liked the movie.  It’s one [...]

ReTales: My favorite job

I loved answering the phone.
Which is probably why I didn’t get to do it very often.
I would clock in, and then ask the shift supervisor who the sponsor was this week.  Every week, a publishing house paid corporate money to have us push a game when we answered the phone.  I heard that corporate often [...]

ReTales WhooooOOOoooh!

I have fond memories of retail, which is strange because retail is horrible, soul destroying work that exposes you to the very worst aspects of American culture and society.  I worked for a now defunct (but then major) video game retailer in one of the busiest malls on the yellow and blue lines on the [...]

The great titling and tagging project of 2009

So, thankfully, with the WordPress UI being completely revamped, I’m inspired to tag and title all of the previous entries.
I thought that this was an awesome, awesome idea.
Until I realized I have been super lazy this entire time that I have maintained (and I use the term loosely) this website.
It started out as a windows [...]