Scott Rahin
42 posts
By Scott Rahin
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Track 5: Champion Rooster
Jun 2, 2004
The fifth track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”
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Meeting
Feb 16, 2004
There are two basic sorts of pedestrians, those in motion from A to B and the loomers, who move stop-and-start, and set a shuffling pace, investigating trash, asking for quarters. To them we add two recent variations: cell phone users, and now the smokers, both of whom are banished from the bars and restaurants, self-selected social pariahs who breed either annoyance or lung cancer by their presence.
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Ceiling
Jan 13, 2004
Hole in the roof of the Smith & 9th St. Subway Station I went for an interview at a branding firm in midtown.
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Track 4: Places I Have Visited
Jan 3, 2004
The fourth track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”
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Sickbed
Jan 1, 2004
A thing that comes from dreams, but would be better forgotten.
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The Bad Turtles
Dec 31, 2003
An inventory of New Years.
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Black Box Theater
Aug 27, 2003
Being in the audience can put you on stage.
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Taking the Edge Off
Aug 24, 2003
Things we love that do not love us back.
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The time I did lines with a bunch of grad students upstate and we ran around in the woods naked firing guns at each other at random
Apr 17, 2003
Paul asked me to elucidate this a little bit. So here’s the short version.
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Track 3: Horse Canyon
Apr 15, 2003
The third track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”
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The Escape
Apr 13, 2003
At the end of winter.
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Track 2: Skinning the Chickadee
Apr 10, 2003
The second track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”
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At-Risk Teens
Mar 2, 2003
They need to do some yachting.
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The Astrakhan Awareness Network
Feb 25, 2003
In which I encourage Paul to get a haircut.
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Marketing Idea
Feb 12, 2003
Waiting for news of poison gas, Paul & I banter.
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Annoyance
Feb 11, 2003
A quick conversation between Paul & me, in which I gain the upper hand effortlessly.
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The End of Technology
Feb 5, 2003
A night out, then over.
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Some Dogs I Have Known, and How They Died
Jan 27, 2003
It’s hard on dogs when the people around them don’t have their acts together. Back when things were confused and I was always broke, I knew a lot of dogs that died. These were the three that I remember the best.
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The Ugliness Club
Nov 24, 2002
Coming to a conclusion about my place in someone’s personal history.
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Where I’m At
Sep 18, 2002
Scott Rahin writes in with an update.
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The Early Morning Movie
Sep 4, 2002
Watching T.V. to learn about my grandfather.
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Make money!
Sep 3, 2002
Make it now! Make it! At home! Do it! You must!
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Where I Grew Up
Sep 2, 2002
The town, the grid of streets.
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Seance
Aug 18, 2002
Speaking impolitely to the dead.
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Crucifixion for Better Abs
Jul 8, 2002
A cranky meditation (not really, that’s a pun) on marketing other people’s sacred beliefs and approaches.
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Track 1: Billy Goats, Angels, Anarchists, Monsters
Jun 10, 2002
The first track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”
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Oat Songs in the Dropsy, an Album
Jun 9, 2002
An album of songs intended to be used in the background.
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Scott Rahin’s Lament
Feb 5, 2002
A field of barley, my ass.
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Heloise in Hell
Jan 14, 2002
The Emergency Wardrobe Alert, and how to cope. Good advice for fuck-ups like me, freely given. Learned from repeated and painful experiences. Including a recipe for fried socks.
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The Dial, the Number
Jan 5, 2002
A work of autobiography by Scott Rahin
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Part 1: Finding My Bearings
Jan 5, 2002
Arrivals and departures.
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A Monadic Soreness
Jan 1, 2002
I sat at the Science and Technology Library, typing on a borrowed laptop, the desire for a cigarette pervading all my humors.
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Coming Back
Mar 22, 2001
Let the taxi-clogged air spread through my lungs, drawn by capillary action into my agnostic soul.
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The Discussion of Music
Feb 28, 2001
Yaaaaan Haaaamah.
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Being Good
Feb 27, 2001
A chapel in the woods.
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The Temporary End of Paul Ford
Feb 25, 2001
Get that bastard out of here, and put him on the bus.
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Faith of My Fathers
Mar 14, 2000
My faith and the place from which it came.
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Moral Futures
Mar 6, 2000
How will we approach these thorny problems tomorrow?
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Sky Frequency
Feb 27, 2000
My personal experience of faith, faith, faith.
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Revolutionaries
Feb 19, 2000
Changing the world, just by exhaling copious hot air.
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The Mysterious Stain
Jan 30, 2000
I was born in Pennsylvania, and my biggest mistake was meeting Paul Ford.
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Change of Pace
Jan 30, 2000
A fucking nasty day.