the status of afflatus

I talked with Ryan Cercone yesterday for the first time since 2002. I have to go to Pittsburgh sometime soon to see him before he pulls up stakes and heads to Chicago. Everyone seems to be migrating there lately.

I question whether we’re really that much better off. [Laughs.] We have access to health care, but the lives that we’re saving tend to be sad and lonely and full of anxiety.
-Mike Doughty