Posted in Life Stuff on Apr 22nd, 2010
An artist named Marina Abramović is performing in the Museum of Modern Art, in an installation called The Artist is Present, where she sits in a chair all day, from the museum’s opening to closing. Apparently, that’s all she does, sit in a chair, staring straight ahead, which is apparently art.
Well, shit. I’ve been sitting [...]
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Posted in Life Stuff on Apr 2nd, 2010
If there were a children’s book about me called What Makes Christopher Go?!? it would be two pages long and contain colorful illustrations of a pack of cigarettes and a cup of coffee. Over the past two weeks I’ve had neither, and it has severely affected my ability to, shall we say, go.
See, I had [...]
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Posted in Life Stuff on Mar 17th, 2010
I discovered something disturbing the other day. Cigarettes are apparently bad for you! I can’t believe no one ever thought to mention this to me.
So, this weekend, after roughly twenty years, cigarettes and I will part ways. I’ve tried to quit before, generally with no success, save the time I quit for about eighteen months [...]
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