Commentary: Hard vs. Easy
Dear reader(s), I’m fond of the expression “Once you’re 90% of the way done, there’s only the other 90%.” This is because, as a writer, I must be bad at math in order for the cosmic balance to be maintained, for the same reason that Ryan Reynolds must secretly have something wrong with him, I don’t know. Maybe he likes bread-and-butter pickles. Something. It’s also because, as it turns out, doing things is harder than you’d think. What kinds of things? Most of them, as it turns out. However! There is also a cosmic balance in the difficulty of things, in that for every hard thing, there must also be a corresponding easy thing. However! This is less helpful than you might think. I’ve come up with some examples: Hard: Getting out of bed early in…
Commentary: Christmas Lights and Western Civilization: vol. 1
Why is it we can put a man on the moon but we can’t design Christmas lights that last more than one season?
Commentary: Art Stuff
It’s 11/11! Make a wish! Was your wish for a stream-of-consciousness commentary post? I’ll never tell!
Still Life, Pond in Autumn
Kieran sat unmoving in his equally motionless kayak, the bright yellow plastic divided in two perfect halves by the mirror of the water’s surface.
Commentary: It Was a Protein Shake
I think you can get away with a “dear reader” type of commentary filled with the banal details of what you had for breakfast last Thursday as long it’s not every week. Or every two weeks.