Shorts
Mario Cuomo said that you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose. To us Americans, every election, nothing is more poetic than the myth of the outsider.
Entertainment
I Finally Finished City on Fire
I respect people trying to write ambitious novels far more than I like reading them.
I know very little about my parents' courtship or their wedding. I also know very little about the day that I was born. I do, however, know where I was conceived.
On My Twenty-Ninth Birthday, I Bought a Skateboard
I wrote this a decade ago. I wanted to ollie before I turned 30 but life got in the way. Carpe diem, people.
Over twenty years, I've watched my frat bros become doctors, lawyers, parents. I've even seen two pass away.
Sometimes thinking about worst-case scenarios in your own life is a luxury.