Marriage Ninja

November 7, 2008

In the wake of the yes vote on Proposition 8, I’ve been using my mail-order Reverend status (courtesy of Universal Life Church Monastery, who do not discriminate against scientists or heathens) to be a Secret Marriage Vigilante. See those dudes holding hands on the bridge? Married. Boom. I’m a Reverend. Those women cuddling on a [...]

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Potassium

November 2, 2008

If Greenspan was wrong about his economic model, and even admitted it, then what does that mean for the field of economics in general? Clearly we’re due for a paradigm shift away from traditional equilibrium models toward an evolutionary viewpoint that takes into account imperfect information, irrational agents, and positive feedback, so that it can [...]

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Downpour in La Boca

October 30, 2008

When the rain started we were in La Boca, miles from the bike rental shop. Someone waved us toward a cafe embedded in the colorful buildings we had come to photograph, promising tango dancers, but we hesitated to enter this obvious tourist trap. Then the rain poured harder and who were we fooling anyway, with [...]

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Sad clown unveiled

October 29, 2008

I, Pageliacci, am a very sad clown. Partly because people write on me with markers.

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Fiction 101 contest: booyah.

October 29, 2008

Last week, in the results of the CityBeat Fiction 101 contest, they printed a combined 6 entries from Conor and me (3 each), out of a total of around 25 stories published. Conor’s amazing tale of a bowling league assassination attempt got 1st place, and our other 5 were included in “Best of the Rest” [...]

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Sad clown 3

October 26, 2008

Pageliacci tried to hold it in. He made it back to his room, loosened his bowtie and was about to set down his ukulele when he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror. The sight of his own despondent eyes triggered a burst of cavernous sobs that shook the hippos in the neighboring pen [...]

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Sad clown 2

October 25, 2008

“Why do you not smile, Pageliacci?”
The clown turned away and stared at the ground. Through the mirror, the boy could see that Pageliacci had begun to cry.
“You would not understand, child, for you are too young to know that those who laugh on the outside sometimes cry within. I too was once a boy, with [...]

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Sad clown

October 24, 2008

Pageliacci kicked off his comically oversized shoes and leaned over to set down his ukulele when the mirror caught his eye. He stood and stared himself in the eye for a moment, the roar of the audience still audible under the Big Top. His eyes welled up and one tear escaped, snowballing white pancake makeup [...]

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Chase scene

October 23, 2008

Wandering mindless along the dark sidewalk, judging the time by the closing hours of the stores and the various stages of cleanup of the employees, sudden memories of college sprint past. I turn and run after them through side streets of my old city, pinning one down on this balcony, one on that roof, and [...]

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Cracks

October 22, 2008

Staring out the car window at the power lines as a kid, I used to imagine running along the top at high speeds. And I loved the crack game (as in “break your mother’s back,” not Jay-Z’s former vocation). Except I would pretend there were lines all over the pavement, though at that age I [...]

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