August 16, 2009
By NerdNerd at 9:56 pm
[Editor's Note: PubliCola's D.C. correspondent is taking a break from the politics beat. He's spending the summer in America's real capital city, Brooklyn, NY.] I’ve been reading a lot of Soviet-era Russian literature lately, for school, and it’s been giving me the weirdest dreams. I woke up on Monday morning phasing in and out of [...] read more →
August 9, 2009
By NerdNerd at 5:55 pm
[Editor's Note: PubliCola's D.C. correspondent is taking a break from the politics beat. He's spending the summer in America's real capital city, Brooklyn, NY.] I woke up the morning of my NJPIRG interview feeling terrible. My ears were still ringing from the sludge metal concert. My brain felt like a water balloon. It had been [...] read more →
August 2, 2009
By NerdNerd at 9:33 pm
[Editor's Note: PubliCola's D.C. correspondent is taking a break from the politics beat. He's spending the summer in America's real capital city, Brooklyn, NY—where he's going to become a movie star.] I’ve spent the serious part of every day this summer scanning Craigslist for jobs. But I’m not really qualified for anything, and when they [...] read more →
July 27, 2009
By NerdNerd at 1:27 pm
[Editor's Note: PubliCola's D.C. correspondent is taking a break from the politics beat. He's spending the summer in America's real capital city, Brooklyn, NY.] Mike and I were sitting under a bus shelter in Baltimore, watching the rain come down in sheets. We’d been in Baltimore for a couple of days, and now, at one [...] read more →
July 19, 2009
By NerdNerd at 12:31 pm
[Editor's Note: PubliCola's D.C. correspondent is taking a break from the politics beat. He's spending the summer in America's real capital city, Brooklyn, NY.] It was 3 a.m., and I was walking (maybe skipping) down Flushing Avenue, past shuttered pawn shops and warehouses covered in graffiti. It was Monday morning, and I had a plane [...] read more →
July 12, 2009
By NerdNerd at 10:26 pm
[Editor's Note: PubliCola's D.C. correspondent is taking a break from the politics beat. He's spending the summer in America's real capital city, Brooklyn, NY.] One of the things that bugs me about reporting on politics is the way political journalists and politicos talk about "the electorate" and watch polls that describe how people feel about [...] read more →
July 5, 2009
By NerdNerd at 6:20 pm
[Editor's Note: PubliCola's D.C. correspondent is taking a break from the politics beat. He's spending the summer in America's real capital city, Brooklyn, NY.] All the magic of the subway is pretty much gone now that I actually have to use the subway to get to work everyday (a tragic development in my Brooklyn life [...] read more →
June 28, 2009
By NerdNerd at 11:58 am
[Editor's Note: This Sunday starts Season Two of NerdNerd. We're leaving Sarah Mirk's goofus adventures in Portland behind and joining our very own Washington D.C. correspondent Chris Kissel in progress. Kissel does not live in D.C. He actually lives in Seattle, works at Bailey/Coy bookstore on Broadway, and goes to S.U. But he's decided to [...] read more →
May 24, 2009
By NerdNerd at 11:36 am
All my friends are graduating from college this week. Look at them, on their Facebooks, smiling in the sunshine, drinking beer in the street, making the rest of us jealous. I graduated from college last year and on this, the one year anniversary of wrapping up my education, I was feeling a little lonely and [...] read more →
May 11, 2009
By NerdNerd at 9:25 am
[Editor's Note: NerdNerd is supposed to run on Saturdays ... or Sundays, but it was a busy weekend.] I can’t wait for the future to get here already. Someday, when I am a real adult, I will not find half-empty cans of Hamms under my bed when I clean my room. Laundry will not be [...] read more →
May 3, 2009
By NerdNerd at 1:38 pm
I’ve been on a work bender this past month, working 12 hours a day and surviving on a bagel-coffee diet. I wish I had some Sociology 101 villain to blame this on (Protestant work ethic? Capitalist ambition?), but I was raised Unitarian by parents who prioritized Scrabble ahead of overtime. I spend my work day [...] read more →
April 27, 2009
By NerdNerd at 10:20 am
I am at a dull florescent committee hearing in Salem, Oregon, watching nine state legislators engage in an activity lobbyists call “gut and stuff.” That sounds like a move invented in Savage Love, but no, it’s apparently a salacious move developed in the legislature. The politicians have torn apart the carcass of a dead transportation bill [...] read more →
