This week’s been a little chaotic, folks. A good friend decided to get married a thousand miles away, 10 days after Mardi Gras, and to involve me in the wedding (can’t we just rent tuxedo t-shirts? people like those, right?). Also, no doubt in hopes of bolstering my spirit of Lenten penitence, my professors have [...]

House-key: Check. Cash: Check Shorts: Thomas Murphy Ignatius short. I gave myself the preemptive pat down before leaving the house, making absolutely certain that the necessary accoutrement for the evening’s revelry was crammed into the small back zip-pouch of my tech shirt. But of greater import, I would soon realize, were the addled, diseased, and malfunctioning [...]

I can still recall the last time I found myself in a dead-heat with 100 meters to run. The sun seemed to have halted its descent, and hung half-visible over the trees to the west of the track, while floodlights surrounding the track began to illuminate all beneath. We were just long, lithe shadows hurtling [...]

In the hopes of lowering your expectations so I stand a chance at meeting them, I offer the following qualification: this will not be the greatest blog post ever written. It probably won’t even crack the top five. I will not be teaching you how to cook, or babbling about fictitious athletes, or attempting to [...]