As I sat on the park bench in my Chuck Taylors and Buddy Holly glasses, cup of coffee in one hand, cigarette hanging from my mouth and a battered copy of "On the Road" on my knees, I felt I was trying way too hard.
2010-01-04 12:01:25 / Rating: 5054.5 / 
When I was reading Walden on a park bench, a homeless black man walked past and said "I used to read Thoreau".
2008-07-23 11:54:59 / Rating: 864.75 /
I'm too old to read until 2 AM and still expect to be productive the next day.
2008-05-22 12:33:29 / Rating: 477.25 /
I knew I was pronouncing "island" (is-land) wrong when I discovered the word "isle" in third grade.
2007-11-14 10:54:09 / Rating: 570.25 /
I can't describe it, but it was the strangest feeling when I realized I was alone in a dermatologist's office reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Fates Worse Than Death."
2006-11-01 16:19:53 / Rating: 439 /
