by Patrick on February 5, 2010
It’s a sleepy, gloomy Friday here in Pasadena. In other words, it’s a great day to curl up with a good book and a cup of coffee or tea (or something stronger, maybe), and read a good book. I recommend Nick Flynn’s new memoir The Ticking is the Bomb, a book that somehow manages to [...]
by Patrick on January 22, 2010
It is a soggy, marshy sort of day, the fifth in a row in this week of spitting rain and wind. We’re not used to this in Southern California; rain makes us crazy, like wet Santa Ana winds. Anyway, I recommend a lot of reading this weekend. Stay inside, cultivate your mind a bit, you [...]