Lush

October 22nd, 2008Blog0 comments

Currently Reading: Lush Life by Richard Price.

I really love reading about police procedure and how crimes are solved. Richard Price was one of the writers on The Wire and the author of Clockers; reading his latest is to put yourself in the hands of an expert.

The whole thing also feels like a postmortem slice of a society that’s changing. Particularly of gentrification — the book concerns a murder in the Lower East Side. You get an extremely detailed view of the world surrounding the crime — the recently-arrived gentrified hipsters, the been-there-forever Latinos and Chinese, how the cops have gone from “suiting up like it’s Baghdad” to hanging out in fake cabs and pulling people over for no reason.

It’s a great book — lots of fun, lots of neat details.

For the third time in its lifespan, my desktop Mac broke. And for the third time, the good people at Apple fixed it for free — even though it’s way past its warranty.

I have a feeling that the fourth time it breaks, I’m going to need to buy a new computer. At that point I will embrace this fact since my present computer will have lived a full and fruitful life.

But damn the new iMacs are pretty great looking. And running Windoze when I need to would be very useful, especially for playing those Roguelikes that are only compiled for PCs. I sorta almost want my current computer to break again so I’ll be “forced” to buy a new one, but in this economy it’s definitely worth it to keep your current possessions running for as long as possible.