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Pondering Hate And Love In The Wake of Destruction

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 17, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

As a species, we are the most terrible, the most wanton, the most cruel. Because we have knowledge. Because we have power. And because we understand that to wage violence is to become God for a day. The shooter, who had a name once, lived out his powerful dream, and now more than thirty are dead in my town.

2006 Year In Review

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 9, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

2006 rose from the ashes of 2005 like a sphinx (well, what else would rise from the ashes?) and promptly sat around for twelve months watching television. It was quite simply the laziest year on record. And that includes 1937, in which depressed Americans, poor, hungry, tired, and huddled, decided they’d had enough of being [...]

Touring Wine Country

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 19, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

It turns out that Napa Valley is the valley where rich wine snobs go to purchase overpriced bottles of stuff you can buy with a different label anywhere else and call it average. But not Sonoma. No, Sonoma Valley has a different breed of people. Down to earth people. Humble folk. Just small vintners, really, [...]

Fere Est Perfectus

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 13, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

Well, I suppose that just about qualifies me for a short break. After finishing my first book in about a month and a half back in November 2005 (woot!), I then took the next ten months to write the second book, though technically I took almost three months off for various employment reasons. Now, at [...]

John Waters World

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 1, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

I have, I suppose, my first official pitch meeting today at 1PM, which is not to say I’m confused about whether today is in fact the correct date for the meeting–I have gone through one rescheduling already, so my confidence in the date and time are pretty near the temperatures of a supernova’s initial .02 [...]

The Hows Of Love

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 18, 2006 ⋅ 5 comments

Where was I? Leaving some of you panting with curiosity, or possibly just thirsting for a strong ipecac. Ewwww! Love! He’s in love! What’s next, a save the rainforest crusade? Essays on the Free Trade coffee movement that will save mankind? Why not just an all-”Hello Kitty” Fringecast to top off the nausea? But you [...]

Gatsby Memories

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 17, 2006 ⋅ 5 comments

I fell in love in New York. Not with New York, though I do have the makings of a small affair already with that city that I may need to break off before Los Angeles finds out and kicks me out of the house. Please don’t tell her–it’d break her heart. No. I fell in [...]

A Truth Universally Acknowledged

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 9, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that on the day before a trip out of town, all hell will break loose and nothing you plan will come to fruition. I’m heading out of town for a week tomorrow morning, and natch, I have obligations and necessary contortions I must force my life into to accomplish [...]

Sentimental Gentleman

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 8, 2006 ⋅ 4 comments

I’m 26, which makes me sick to think of how much time has passed and I haven’t done anything to make the world a better place. Not that anyone really does. At best the best person in the world is able to affect it in a way that resonates throughout history, but even then, the [...]

A Year’s Prospectus

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 7, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

I returned from San Francisco last night around 11:20, after a grueling drive back along the 5. Driving there is like waking up from a wonderful dream. Driving back is the long wait of horrible anticipation before brain surgery. And it’s not just San Francisco. Any drive of four or more hours has a special [...]

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