In Which I Start Reading the LA Times....

The paper arrived for the first time at our place here in Silverlake today. Something about getting your local rag really makes you feel like you're rooted in a new location. But though that observation might sound uplifting--and hey, this piece in the Times today was particularly great--it also inspires me to reflect critically upon my media consumption habits over the past several years. I'm not of my parents' generation--reading the newspaper daily is not an ingrained routine for me. As a result, I stopped getting the Washington Post in, like, 2003. More generally, the diversity of my media tastes declined as I've buried myself in book projects. There was just something about living in D.C., without getting the Post, without a T.V., and without a car to listen to NPR in while driving, that left me out of the loop at times. That and traveling and being inundated with ...