February 26th, 2009

From New York to Jollibee and Back Again

For about a year I’ve had an inadvertent subscription to New York Magazine. Somehow it just started appearing in my mailbox. I kinda thought perhaps I had tried to subscribe to The New Yorker, made some ridiculous mistake, then forgotten about the episode. Strangely, none of my credit card or bank statements said anything about [...]

February 14th, 2009

Getting these keys moving again

A few weeks ago I started typing on one of my dad’s old typewriters. The arms of each key on the Royal Arrow moved slowly, as if moving through molasses. My words tripped over themselves, caught in the machine’s throat. Dust dulled the dark gray casing of the machine.

Another typewriter sat on a table [...]