I aspire to a principled blog (see “Touring Quiz,” question 4, below); we here at Think Denk eschew name-dropping. I would never refer to famous musicians by their first names or nicknames, as in “yesterday I ran into Manny at the grocery store,” or even “I remember back when Isaac invited me up to his […]
“Better if food is late,” the Indian man on the line informed me, “than you end up in hospital.” Poof, snip: he neutered my complaint. Suddenly it was petty, silly, and short-sighted of me to be wondering why my Vindaloo was oozing so slowly up Amsterdam Avenue. If it takes an hour to make fresh […]
1) Friend M carried both a violin and a viola aboard a plane, but found himself boarding nearly last. Tyranny of overhead bins! He was attempting to reorient some nearby bags when their owner spoke: “we are very well situated here.” What, one may well ask, about their situated state precluded the reorientation of bags […]
Today I had 15 minutes to make it from pure sleep to the hotel lobby: from 5:45 to 6:00 AM. I lay still after the first heart-jolting buzzer; I sacrificed some time to inertia, a counterfeit peace. But the phone cruelly rang; the electronic, mystifying voice was Josh, checking if I was awake. I feigned […]
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