A scattershot update. It's been a crazy set of weeks. Apologies for not posting the VGt how-to. I'll seriously get to that ASAP. Let's break it down:
Job. The job situation has gotten worse as well as better... while I am no longer writing under the same (truly terrible) editor, she got me pulled off of the one beat I really enjoy, the WTC reconstruction beat. It's been time to switch gears for a while, and I think its time to start looking for some disposable employment... a thing I can do for a while to make some cash, then leave without marring my resume too much. Especially if Grad School is in my future? yeah.
Bike. Speaking of disposable, I have this thing against expensive racing wheels... I think they're dumb. And given that I find wheelbuilding to be a truly relaxing enterprise, I've been working around the concept of disposable race-wheels. Generally, they're half-spoked front wheels with a good tubular tire made from scavenged wheel-parts. I can underbuild them to be light as I weigh in at 140lbs soaking wet, and with a good tire they handle quite well. As for the disposable part? I finally cracked my so-built front wheel, sprinting down Broadway with traffic, drafting a toyota, when I hit a large metal plate in the road. I limped it home, but the rim is cracked. Time to build new wheels.
Projects. Armchair / Shotgun is really happening. The website will be more than a splash in a few days, and submissions will be due April 2.
Life. Jay might get a dream job at Slate... Everyone cross or uncross your fingers for him as your luck-tradition sees fit. Few people deserve it as much.
About Me
- De.Corday
- Charlote de Corday, a figure of the French Revolution, was a rebel against the rebellion, an individual in a war of sides. Charlotte de Corday has thus become my nom de guerre as an individual caught up in a world that speaks in borders rather than content. I am quite simply a student of philosophy and theories of government, a musician and a coffee addict, returned to my native urban New Jersey to find a place rapidly gentrifying, changing, growing--whatever you want to call it, only to move to Brooklyn and act as the other side of that coin. I am trying to make art after four years of academy, trying to feel for an ever elusive home... also trying to keep my car running. Trying to live and work and create in a way that each is copacetic to the other two. I currently write freelance and work for a newspaper in Lower Manhattan.
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