the Nixionary

Well, I’m leaving Colorado again.
The best part of the drive is the stretch on a little-known road between Elizabeth and I-70 that cuts through rolling farm and horse country. Once you escape the sprawl of Parker, you start going over snow-covered crests dotted with the shadows of cows, silos, and yellow grainy pokey-upeys. [...]

What would you ask for for Christmas if you couldn’t move your arms or your legs and couldn’t talk? I asked a friend this today who can’t talk or move his body, but who can spell using a special declaration system.
He said: a magnetic mattress.
I wonder if this is like those once-popular bracelets that [...]

Took my car to the repair shop in Denver where I was expecting to get a new battery installed. Instead, I got a $2400 estimate, and a phone call which went like this:
“Your car isn’t going to be ready as early as expected. Our guy who was working on it had to get [...]

I feel more fake than ever. (Faker…more fake? Faker sounds bad.)
As I was talking to my brother, who teaches at Northwestern, he brought up that many graduate schools put out what seem to be casting calls instead of guidelines for applications. They are looking for good-on-paper actors, not necessarily talented artists.
Why is our [...]

Whiners! Everywhere! Get out of my brain!
Print is not the place for people to take out their own life’s grievances. Since I just started this blog, I’ve been looking around for some best practices, and a lot of what I find in other blogs is ungrounded complaints- more expletives than eloquence. [...]