notes for nobody but myself

I think I have always known I would end up here. When I was a freshman at Kenyon - we didn’t call ourselves “first-years” then, we were freshmen, and that’s how I remember myself, the way my friends from India call the city they grew up in “Bombay” - when I was a freshman at…
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For better or worse, I was born into being a Cleveland Browns fan. Strike that: at no time has “better” been involved. There has been plenty of “worse…
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Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith died last week. I didn’t notice the news, and I confess her name didn’t mean anything to me when KCRW’s Chris Douridas…
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I’m setting up a new location for my writings. This is it.
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In honor of the reopening of Coney Island after its year of hiatus, we give you the definitive list of the twenty best roller coaster names in the…
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I dreamed I was on Jeopardy! last night. It was a dream about being unprepared. Throughout the entire dream I was asking people for things, for paper…
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Cowbell: check. Bright clothes: check. Sign: check. Marathon prep for Sean M Enright complete. Sorry you didn't see the sign, Sean, but some other guy…
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A week from now I will be a year older. It doesn't seem like it should work that way but I am assured it does. In any case, facebook which knows…
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notes for nobody but myself

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