Accident

I caused an accident.

I think people in New Jersey can’t drive.  Maybe they can’t drive anywhere else other than Manhattan.  I have years of experience driving a bicycle and a skateboard in Manhattan.  Whenever I do these things outside of Manhattan, the drivers around me act like idiots.  They honk.  My motto has always been, “Don’t honk -- drive.”  That round thing that you’re using to honk with, turn it.  

So one day I’m riding home from Subway.  I’m hungry.  I want to eat my sandwich.  I’m shooting the wrong way down a hill.  A car is coming my way.  There ‘s no way I’m stopping.  I move to the right as far as I can go.  Plenty of room for the car to pass.  I see he turns to the left or his right.  Okay.  Everything should be fine.  We pass each other.  Crunch.  He rakes the cars on the right.  I look back and laugh.  

Stupid.

The 2012 Book List

Here’s the 2013 book list:

1. 1984 -- George Orwell
2. The Caged Virgin -- Ayan Hirisi Ali
3. Are Cops Racist? -- Heather Mac Donald
4. The Plague -- Albert Camus
5. The Oxbow Incident -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
6. The Sleeper Awakes -- HG Wells
7. The Walking Dead, Compendium One -- Robert Kirkman
8. The Wasp Factory --  Ian Banks
9. The Walking Dead Book 5 -- Robert Kirkman
10. House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
11. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal -- Ian Christe
12. The Walking Dead Book 6 -- Robert Kirkman
13. The Better Angels of Our Nature -- Steven Pinker
14. The Sot-Weed Factor -- John Barth
15. The Walking Dead: Rise of the Govenor -- Robert Kirkman
16. Runaway Horses -- Yukio Mishima
17. The Walking Dead Book 7 -- Robert Kirkman
18. The Raw Shark Texts -- Steven Hall
19. Give Me Your Heart -- Joyce Carole Oates
20. Othello
21. Gilgamesh
22. John Dies at The End -- David Wong
23. World War Z -- Max Brooks
24. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave
25. Down and Out in Paris and London -- George Orwell
26. The Book of Dave -- Will Self
27. The Big Money -- John Dos Passos
28. The Shoe Maker: Anatomy of a Psychotic -- Flora Rheta Schreiber
29. Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace
30. Hamlet
31. V. -- Thomas Pynchon