Wikipedia and Cilantro, a Close Reading (Part I)

As recent events would have it, namely that I’ve had the death cough all week (thanks roommate) I’ve had time to sit back (in truth lie nearly comatose, lest I aggravate the death cough) and contemplate things. Of course that’s basically what I do all the time anyway, (contemplate, not lie near comatose (I’m trying [...]

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A Play in One Act

Someone Who Isn’t Erin: Love the blog, but can’t get behind hating cilantro. Erin: Thanks!; I don’t care. SWIE: But, don’t you think other people should hate cilantro, want them to hate cilantro? Erin: No, that’s the folks over at ihatecilantro.com (a group I will not be joining in the foreseeable future; although I do [...]

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Requisite Post Thanksgiving Post

When you’re 25, more or less making a living as a writer of various merits and degrees of seriousness, residing in New York City and haling from small college town Ohio, returning to New York after Thanksgiving in said college town Ohio (and it’s distant cousin, Southwestern farmland Ohio) to begin reading Philip Roth’s Ghost [...]

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