Paul Attinello

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  • Being-in-the-world

    Still been a bit groggy, and dismayed by the grogginess (though grateful for that extra hour today). Finally forced myself out of the house in midafternoon; walked through the neighborhood, among people doing the things people do (students in couples shopping, a guy with a big smile riding a bike, various children). Mild envy of…

  • Fall back

    I love getting that hour back in the fall, when the clocks return to ‘real’ time. It’s silly, I suppose – living up here in the north, where by late October the night has eaten more than half the day anyway (official dawn-to-dusk is now eleven hours, and in December that will go down to…

  • Against junk; and a small panic

    I’m bothered by the amount of junk in my life – by which I don’t mean anything that Bukowski or Burroughs would talk about – but more like what’s meant by junk mail, junk television… junk yard dogs. Well not exactly that last one, but you know what I’m saying. Over the years my reading…

  • That weird humming

    Every year my neighbors change – this is an area with lots of students, some of whom are a bit unpredictable. I’ve never had a real disaster (as V– seems to have this year, with loud music from upstairs), but some of the changes are a bit, well, peculiar. For instance: I keep being awake…

  • Olympian

    Having finally done some work today, I watched CSI – and it’s my favorite episode, ‘4×4’, an intricate puzzle of four overlapping segments that intersect in unexpected ways. Although the episode initially seems to run along the normal patterns for the show, the overlaps start amplifying the watcher’s awareness of the people involved, without them…

  • Workshopping

    Today I co-presented a workshop on writing about AIDS for the local gay and lesbian writer’s festival. During the months of arranging for this workshop, I’d worried that the overlap between the HIV and writing communities here was small or nonexistent – which is probably true; but we managed to guilt some of our friends…

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