Archive for June 20, 2004
Sunrise, Sunset
It’s Sunday night. The sun has set. And I seem to have squandered my weekend. ‘Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ is paused on the DVD player. Dinner (mixed greens with pine nuts, sunflower seeds, tofu, garbonzo beans, and a hard boiled egg) is gone. I made the requisite paternal communique. I spent time in Central…
Read MoreSimplest Terms, Convenient Definitions
Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you’re crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. John Hughes bottled the cultural zeitgeist of teen angst before it turned midnight…
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