May 2010
1 post
December 2009
4 posts
June 2009
1 post
“Hello My Fellow Sarcastic Sex Kittens,
For those who graciously emailed back...”
– From one of several million emails I’ve received that are apparently intended for some other Matt Gordon…
March 2009
1 post
“Adult sanity…seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available...”
– David Foster Wallace, in a letter to Don DeLillo, quoted in the March 9th New Yorker
January 2009
2 posts
Haiku ode to my new diet
Hungry hungry hung
gry. Hungry hungry hungry
hungry hungry. Starve.
November 2008
6 posts
Recounts: not for the faint of heart →
Excerpt from Obama’s speech, recorded with...
From Kim Stratton’s performance of the...
The inevitable plastic-bucket drums. Recorded live...
“They did it. They really did it. So often crudely caricatured by others, the...”
– Guardian UK
October 2008
2 posts
“Nowadays, however, save for the large footprint of the Obama campaign, Illinois...”
– http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/road-to-270-illinois.html
“Americans first voted for a President whose campaign touted him as a rugged,...”
– Jill Lepore in the New Yorker, reviewing Presidential campaign biographies since Andrew Jackson
April 2008
2 posts
“Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers - those people ride a bike.” — Wolfgang Sachs, For Love of the Automobile, 1984
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
6 posts
The Micro-Fiber Militia →
Renegade crochet artists are keeping Chicago’s pipes and bike racks warm. F’realz.
“Pettitte said Monday that he used the substance in both instances to recover...”
– Um, isn’t coming back faster from an injury a competitive advantage?
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November 2007
1 post
October 2007
3 posts
Pressing question
Baxter: (calling me in from their bedroom after I said goodnight) "Daddy?"
Me: (whispering, re-entering their room) "What is it, Bax?"
Baxter: "Why do they always have to put the next chapter on the right side of the book?"
Me: (dumbfounded) "I don't know." Beat. "Let's talk about that in the morning..."
Baxter: "Okay, goodnight."
These shoes are freaking me out →
I think I need to try them on
September 2007
2 posts
Just pretend →
Saw this on a bumper on our street. Best bumper sticker ever?
See?
Not much here, is there?
August 2007
7 posts
Altered books as art -- wow. →
(via Gaper’s Block)
Driving cross-country with a breakfast cereal... →
via Daring Fireball
11 ways I've said I "I love you"
11 words: I think that new Hugh Grant movie is showing tonight downtown. 10 words: It’s my turn to get up with the boys. 9 words: Don’t you think it’s a good night for pizza? 8 words: I wish my blog was cool like yours. 7 words: Have another gin and tonic, my love. 6 words: You do too need an iPhone! 5 words: I’m glad you’re my wife. 4 words: Time for more coffee?...
First Class reading
A partial list of my seatmate’s reading material, from a recent flight from Chicago to San Francisco: Escort radar detector quick start guide Flying Magazine (“Why pilots are unfairly judged by their landings”) Wall Street Journal Vanguard prospectus Balloon promissory note agreement with “read on plane” Post-It American Rifleman magazine Oh, and he watched, and...
Surprisingly moving take on Barry's 755; fathers... →
Son of Jor-El is Clay Hensley, the pitcher who threw the pitch that became #755. I was, shall we say, non-plussed (look it up) by my reaction to this piece
“There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our...”
– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1953
Matt Gordon: Complaining, still, about my cold and trying to figure how little work I can safely do today. Oh, and waiting for the handyman to arrive. (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
July 2007
30 posts
Matt Gordon: Enjoying the cool air and fast wifi of the Westin’s lobby (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: Driving out to O’Hare for lunch with some work people from Cincinnati (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: Coughing up a lung, reading a presentation or two (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: Riding home from O’Hare in my junior mafioso trainging car after 30 long hours in LA (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: Rocking the 405. Nothing beats 3pm traffic jams. (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: Wondering how they capture the taste of used ashtrays in the little in-room coffee packets (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: trying to fight off the airport jitters and get a decent night’s sleep (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: To heck with hay fever. To heck with Sunday night flights to LA. (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: On the way to our god-ignoring church (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)
Matt Gordon: exploring the medicinal effects of the dry gin martini (via Twitter / Matt Gordon)