Blas Manuel's blog

Hey, I Need One of These

Are you socially awkward? Do you feel generally useless with strangers. Then, fellow nerd, these products may be for you.

Happiness: Even That's a Mystery

How satisfied you are with your life is not at all the same thing as how you feel while you are living it.

California Always Wins

In the House, the state’s delegation will comprise 34 Democrats, or more than 15 percent of the Democratic membership.

Chew on that one for a while, America.

The Art of the Written Conversation

Currently, Sonya Chung, one of my best buddies, and I are in disagreement.

Read This, Language Nerds

It wants every word, all the lingo: idioms and euphemisms, sacred or profane, dead or alive, the King’s English or the street’s.

Sacramento Reading: 18 November 2006

I've just about got those bastards memorized by now.

Jesse Lee

At that point, I had been out of the writing life for so long that I had felt like that life was dead to me, so that fellowship meant everything.

What Will Survive of Us Is Love

1.
Okay, this is going to be a tricky one. For a few months now, I’ve wanted to write about William Logan for my little website, but two questions stopped me. First, Who am I? And, second, Who really cares?

Space Needle

If each foot took us back a year,
the dark below would be
immaculate...

We Have a Winner

I wish, because, dude, that sounds awesome.
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