DFW: February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008

I Dream of Someday Writing an Entire Blog Composed of Quotations.

"Such romantic claptrap...such childish drivel...but the kid was in despair over his ruined ambitions, facing up to the fact that he didn't have it in him to do the one thing he had always wanted to do, and he ran off in an impulsive attempt to redeem himself in his own eyes."

---Paul Auster "Man in the Dark"

For further plagiarism see also The Most Essential Use of a Blog

Justin Kahn

is probably addicted to facebook.

Book Review Week Continued:Pride Cometh In the Summer.

Today we are reviewing a whole bunch of books I have on computers. These books contain every manner of deep wisdom about how complex computer systems work.












But beware! Read these books with humility. For if you do not, you will think that your mastery of the domain of computers and robots is complete and total. And then in a fit of genius you will take your ipod apart and have no idea how to put it back together again.

Book Review Week: "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris

Unlike Dave Sedaris' other books, this one is inscribed to my father. As a struggling writer, it is is nice to hear what already established authors, especially ones I personally value,have to say.


Because with all of the insecurities, all the doubts, all of the difficulties that are unique to being an author, one does often wake up in the middle of the night wondering, "But is my father enchanting?"




For Further Reading on How Great Authors have Reacted to Justin Please See:

Garrison Keilor.

Dave Barry.

So then, save me, save me.

Photo is courtesy of the very pious Radioactive Cotton.

The Practice of Medicine Used to Be About So Much More Than Just Getting Stuff That You Could Steal on Your Own.

I called and made an appointment!

I waited in the lobby and in the exam room!

The doctor gave me a prescription I could have "Picked Up On My Own."








And call me old fashioned, but if you steal OTC prescriptions at least you aren't responsible for killing the hundreds of trees necessary to wrap up single sample pills.