Books I read and celebrities I saw
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan. After reading this 505 page history, I hereby firmly resolve to not judge a book by its cover. Had I spent 10-15 minutes skimming chapters, I would have realized that this book is not in fact about “silk roads”, whatever that means to […]
Tim Gunn (April 2019) – My wife always raves about the celebrities she saw while a student in NYC, so I was cautiously optimistic during a weekend we spent there. While we did not see anyone in the Village, we did cross paths with Tim Gunn as we walked from Levain Bakery to the Museum […]
Following my highly successful – I liked it, I mean – 2017 end of year book list, I have decided to make the post a tradition. What follows is the list, in chronological order, of books I finished in 2018. If I put an asterisk after the title, it means I started the book in 2017. American […]
My wife has supernatural face memory and always sees celebrities when we are together. I am sure I saw many more celebrities without realizing it. Overall, fun sightings, but not as awesome as 2017 (Fred Armisen, Jemaine from New Zealand and Flight of the Conchords, Abbi from Broad City). The following entries are in chronological order. Josh Flagg (January) […]
On the heels of my book inventory for 2017 is this post, my celebrity sighting inventory for 2017. The New England sophisticate in me hates that I even considered documenting these events, much less put them on my professional website, but the budding Angelino in me, interacted with my forgetfulness, thinks it’s so cool that […]
Inspired by Aaron Clauset’s annual catalogue of his productivity and spurred by my forgetfulness, this post is the first of what I hope will be many that catalogue my leisure reading of the previous year. In no particular order, I read: The Autobiography of Malcolm X – As good as you’ve heard. Though dictated, it felt like the […]
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