It seems to be a slow Saturday night, and I can tell that from Twitter where I saw that people as diverse as right-wing evangelical acivist Nathan Tabor, from Winston-Salem, NC, moderate conservative pundit David Frum and liberal journalist Suzy Khimm were all watching the Republican debate from Michigan tonight.
So, perhaps this will mean more blog traffic than normal.
A funny thing happened the other day as my mom and I were browsing through an independent bookstore in Roanoke, Va. I stumbled across a copy of a self-help book entitled "Clean Like a Man" by Tom McNulty. I saw on the back jacket that comic/actor Richard Lewis ("Curb Your Enthuiasm") had strongly endorsed it as he confessed to being an Oscar Madison-type.
My mom looked when I showed her the book, which I should probably read_twice, and said (paraphrase): "Oh come on. You know you'll never read the thing; sorry son, but you are a hopeless cause."
So, with that, here are highlights from a list I made today on ways I could improve my life:
1. Lose weight
2. Get a good-paying job
3. Write a short story or even a short, short story
4. Clean house (hence, the reason for the vacuum cleaner image)
5. Try to get more hits on the two blogs; surely there is someone in a hut in the jungles of Burundi who cares about what I have to say.
6. Develop more confidence around attractive women; some guy found a way to ask Anne Hathaway out on a date.
7. Go on more long walks
8. Read Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" or at least the first chapter.
9. Watch more Jean-Luc Godard films (we would've gone with Ingmar Bergman, but his films make me feel very depressed, especially "Fanny and Alexander," it's more gut-wrenching than "Schindler's List").
10. Listen to more Turkish psychedlic music from the 1970s.
11. Save up money to buy a $500 antique Swiss cuckoo clock.
12. Drink more Counter Culture* coffee instead of Starbucks.
*-Company based in Durham, NC. Reportedly, they use beans from farms in Rwanda and/or Uganda.
