Bream Gives Me Hiccups

Short stories are interesting to me.  Some day I want to crack open an Infinite Jest sized book and see an epigraph that reads, "This is a very long short story."  If someone reading this actually does that you need to let me know, I'll buy ten copies of that book.  My point is that …

The Art of Asking: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Amanda Palmer is kind of a badass.  She's definitely on my list of awesome people I want to be friends with.  I've spent the last few years getting to know her music and very loosely following the various kerfuffles (I feel "scandal" isn't quite the right word.  Also kerfuffle is more fun to say.  Say …