DeWitt Clinton

My friend Josh, who joked that I’ve talked to him more over the past month of baseball playoffs than in the years of working together, made a comment immediately after game 4 of the World Series: “The sun still hasn’t risen on a world in which the Sox broke the Curse.”
Well, fortunately the sun did [...]

…well, that’s not exactly right.
This story takes us back 18 years. To the 28th of October. Back to 1986.
You see, on that day, somewhere in one of the cozy towns outlying the city of Boston, a little blond boy turned 12 years old. He thought it was a Pretty Big Deal. [...]

For the past three years, everything a few feet away from me has looked like this:

Before:

I suspected that it wasn’t healthy for me to keep squinting, but one thing or another always kept me from getting my eyes checked out. But last week it started getting so ridiculous that I finally went to [...]

I’m sorry I haven’t been posting lately. At first I thought it might be because I must be starting to develop a distaste for computers in general. By the end of each day I simply felt so fatigued staring at a monitor that I couldn’t get excited about writing.

But no, it was simply that I [...]