4 December 2002
Woah! It’s true: Intelligentsia is opening downstairs soon!

3 December 2002scrivener’s one year anniversary
Today’s bright idea: geothermal sidewalk ice melting, in Klamath Falls, Ore. Now I’m up to seven books released into the wild.

29 November 2002
Okay, so I didn’t actually release “Haussmann” on Tuesday. Instead, I released it and five other books, Chaucer to Kushner, today to celebrate Buy Nothing Day.

26 November 2002
Released my first book into the wild today, “Haussmann” over at Atomix. You’re welcome.

25 November 2002
Has the SUV backlash begun? All my Black friends (and I do have many) certainly seem to think so.

24 November 2002
“Given my long confinement in the city’s spheres of literary influence, I don’t know many people who admire President Bush or who feel anything but loathing for the reactionary scholars who teach him lessons in geography.” Lewis Lapham in December’s Harper’s

23 November 2002
“If you are a Time Traveler I am going to need the following: 1. A modified mind warping Dimensional Warp Generator # 52 4350a series wrist watch with memory adapter. 2. Reliable carbon based, or silicon based time transducing capacitor.” (from spam received today.)

16 November 2002
“What can I show you that will make you happy with yourself?” Isaac Feig, eyeglass salesman on Madison Avenue, quoted on “The Next Big Thing“

15 November 2002
Overheard on the train today, by someone lecturing someone else about not using seats for his stuff: “That’s not gangsta. That’s fucking weak.”

13 November 2002
Today’s amusing truck signage: “Mark’s Mobile Meats.”

9 November 2002
“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric because it is a product we can find in our neighborhoods.” So said George W. Bush, of course, quoted in September’s Sierra.

6 November 2002
Ah, another depressing Election Night. well, this serendipitous moment earlier today: while walking from Monroe to Randolph along the Dearborn subway today, I stopped in the weird platform between the two to listen to a violinist at Monroe and the erhu-ist (?) at Washington.