a memory of the smell of smoke

-30-, all the president's men, asofterworld, bad '90s pop, bill moyers, bitching about los angeles, bon mots, c-span, copy editing, driveway moments, edward r murrow, esprit de l'escalier, feminism, fivethirtyeight, getting lost downtown, it's all politics, james joyce, jewish geography, jezebel, john fante, journalism, last.fm, los angeles, mary wollstonecraft, new york times crosswords, newsweek, not reaching my potential, npr, politics, pretentious indie music, procrastination, radio, red pens, reform judaism, sabotaging myself, shield laws, sophistry, strunk and white, taking the bus, the economist, the fourth estate, the great gatsby, this american life, tom stoppard, twitter, unwarranted nostalgia, washington d.c.