Monthly Archives: September 2018
1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Four: Books
Posted on September 4, 2018 12 Comments
Well, this one is simple. In 1998, I had no published books. In 2018 I have — (counts fingers) (counts toes) (counts fingtoes) — thirty, depending on whether you count individually published novellas (I do), and that number will rise by the end of the year. This number doesn’t count books I didn’t write entirely […]
The Whatever Digest, 9/4/18
Posted on September 4, 2018 40 Comments
Good morning! Let’s get to this thing. *** Steve Bannon and the New Yorker — Well, this was predictable enough, to anyone who wasn’t David Remnick: The New Yorker announced that Bannon would be the headliner of its upcoming “festival,” in conversation with Remnick, who is the magazine’s editor-in-chief. That didn’t sit particularly well with […]
Kitten in a Trashcan + Announcing Daily Digest
Posted on September 3, 2018 21 Comments
First, the kitten in the trashcan, because you always lead with the “A” material: Why is the kitten in the trashcan? IT KNOWS WHY. (And also, because kittens are kitten-y, and Smudge is more kitten-y than most, and jumping heedlessly into trashcans is just a thing kittens do.) Second, for the non-holiday weekdays of September, […]
1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Three: Home
Posted on September 3, 2018 36 Comments
In the last twenty years I’ve called two places “home”: The first house I ever owned, and (I suspect) the last house I’ll ever own. The first house I ever owned — and by “I” it should be understood that I am a part of a “we” as Krissy and I were both on the […]
1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Two: Money
Posted on September 2, 2018 27 Comments
Over the last twenty years I’ve had an interesting relationship with money. It’s been mostly positive, to be sure (spoiler: these last twenty years I’ve been generally financially secure), but I’ve had a lot of time to think about money and what it means to me and my life. So let’s go ahead and dig […]
1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day One: Cats
Posted on September 1, 2018 28 Comments
Over the course of 20 years, I’ve had seven cats, roughly grouped into three generations. The first generation of cats was a single cat: Rex, who I acquired in 1991 from my sister Heather. Heather and her children came to live with me for about a year when she was getting a divorce from her […]
Announcing 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20
Posted on September 1, 2018 13 Comments
As most of you probably know by now, September 2018 will mark the 20th anniversary of Whatever, the blog you are reading right at this very moment. Twenty years is a very long time to be writing anything; it’s a long time to be doing anything at all, to be honest. I wanted to commemorate […]
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