Here’s a sob story for you. I spent this day, the second Sunday of Lent, in preparation to gorge myself on what I suspect to be God’s second physical incarnation: banana-nutella crepes at the intimidatingly posh Cafe Neo. I reluctantly gave up sweets for Lent (which I complain a lot about, but is honestly much [...]
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Una Tragedia de Cuaresma
Posted in Chicago, baklava, coffee, melodramatic, things that make me sad on February 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Birthing Pains of the Renaissance
Posted in Europe, history, melodramatic, things that make me sad on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
History has repeated itself many times in spawning a new period of creative industry and intellectual novelties: the Creativity sperm finds the Crisis egg, and together they produce a Renaissance zygote. It’s true. The greatest renaissance in history, so great that it is dubbed “THE RENAISSANCE,” came right out of a time and place whose [...]
Observations of a Feeling
Posted in melodramatic, memory, relationships, things that make me sad on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As Joe described it, I can imagine it similar to the phantom pains experienced by someone who has lost a limb. The limb can still feel as though it pulsates, functions, and hurts. There must be something there because the memory is so sharp, so when you find that it is indeed not there, it [...]
