If im a toy then let me do what i do
you wind me up and watch what i do to you


Laura Owens, Untitled, 2004

* Interesting New Yorker article on Richard Yates

* In 1989 I worked at a camp in Maine and lived for two months in a cabin with Obama's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget. Sharp (and understanding) guy as I remember.

* Song of the Day: Cold Hard Times, by Lee Hazlewood

* "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.