Posts Tagged ‘disillusionment’

Billion-Dollar Numbness

13Oct09

The Senate Finance Committee just gave the go-ahead to move forward with the health care reform bill everyone has been yelling about for the past year. According to the reports, the estimated cost of the whole thing would be $829 billion, or $829,000,000,000. Lots of zeros.
Over the past few years, with all the recession talk and bailouts [...]


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Kerouac

01Oct09

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, [...]


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American Comedic

23Mar09

I saw way to many police cars this week.
A guy was yelling threats and profanity at a girl three houses down from mine on Saturday. The girl’s mom threatened to call the cops if he didn’t stop, and when he wouldn’t let up, she called them. I pulled down my street just as the two [...]


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Where’s Walden

26Feb09

Last week I was in the middle of struggling through a paper that I put off for far too long. I sat down to start writing it around 7:30 and then found myself having to drag my laptop downstairs, powercord and all so that I could watch 24, furiously writing and agonizing over words during [...]


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I’m Still [Mostly] Alive

12Aug08

I apologize for my apparent absence from writing here, but time and a laptop have been scarce since my return from Costa Rica. Viruses have consumed my computer and so I haven’t had as much availability as far as updating goes. Hopefully this will not be the case once classes start up again.
Regardless, I will [...]


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