Author: Mark Egge

In this last and most recent analysis, we are ultimately alone. Not in the short, small individual relationship sense (in which we are, then we are not, then sometimes we are again), but in a vast cosmic sense. In a great, gaping, vast infinity of empty, black space sense. In the sense that, while preparing […]

Ingredients: Olive Oil Garlic 1 or 2 Hot-House tomatoes One 6 oz can tomato paste (preferably organic for that sweet elusive smug flavor) Sugar Spices (preferably thyme, rosemary, cardamom and fresh basil) Vegetable stock (or bullion vegetable base) Half & Half (or, substitute half as much Heavy Whipping Cream and increase amount of vegetable stock […]

This is bad–a seeming downward spiral toward oblivion. It’s 4:08 pm, now, and I’m still in bed. Yesterday I made it out of bed at 2:00 pm. The day before, closer to 5:00 pm. I certainly don’t want to be in bed right now. I wake at 8:00 am, roll on to my left side–agonizing–then […]

When introducing A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, author David Eggers defines the themes, motifs and other literary devices that the reader will encounter in his book. It’s brilliant–not least because it saves his book from the ignominy of being high school AP English fodder. And it’s fun. The reading is that much more entertaining […]

In Superfreakanomics, Levitt & Dubner quote Boris Johnson (journalist cum London mayor), who writes: Like all the best religions, fear of climate change satisfies our need for guilt, and self-disgust, and that eternal human sense that technological progress must be punished by the gods. And the fear of climate change is like a religion in […]