http://shortstorieslongodds.com Words, User-Defined Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:37:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (As long promised, so now delivered: The first of a three-parter I did for Quorum Report in late January.) The night Barack Obama was elected, my wife and I decided to go to his inauguration.  I had a romantic notion that taking a road trip across the heartland from Texas to ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2009/06/23/on-the-inauguration-trail-part-1/ (cross posted at http://ratlist.tumblr.com) We have all watched over the last few days as Twitter went from being a hot social networking tool to being used by brave Iranians to change the world. With media restrictions in place from the Iranian government, the main source of news coming out of Iran ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2009/06/17/the-iran-elections-raw-intelligence-and-the-rat-list/ Best Song Lyrics I've Found In A While: So I'll stick to my guns, but from now on it's war: I'm armed with the past, and the will, and a brick - Frightened Rabbit, Good Arms vs. Bad Arms Best Line from Neruda That Used To Be a Favorite Until I Forgot It (Tie): I want to ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2009/05/12/some-true-things/ ( I have rescued the first two paragraphs of this from something I wrote last summer, something begun and never finished.  The rest is likewise not a real narrative but rather a collection of stuff, much of which is from a notebook I've been writing tiny bits in since last ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2009/04/25/drinking-beer-the-wrong-way/ In the fall of 1997, I started college at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I would ultimately end up attending Berklee for just three semesters. I left after the first two semesters when my hands went bad, and went back for one more semester in 2004 for one ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2009/04/09/me-and-big-awkward-on-commonwealth-avenue/