I want to not be illiterate. Sometimes I'm close. In an effort to be, you know, smarter - I'm trying to read real books. I picked up Slaughterhouse-Five about a month ago along with several other books (2 Klosterman books on pop culture, Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, a book about the 2005-2006 Suns season, etc). I read all the candy first. The only ...

"Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club... and kiss my ass!" ---Kurt Vonnegut

“If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” —W.C. Fields

[this is heather, folks] Ok, don't freak out, but I quit my job today. I'm hugely relieved. Over the last few months I've been feeling a lack of passion and enthusiasm. A general apathy combined with weariness. Due to the overly public nature of blogs I don't want to talk too much about it here, so email me if you're interested. Basically I'll be heading back to the ...

I'm good now.