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The day began by spitting some blasphemous combination of rain and almost-snow. Pieces of this pesky gelatinous ...

One of the silver linings of this past fucked-up election was the obliteration of my news-watching habits. ...

~ from OCTOBER 2004 ~ I am rushing to get something while on a fifteen-minute break from work. ...

~ from OCTOBER 2004 ~   I’ve never understood those writers who could wake up and will themselves to ...

About Alan Ilagan

Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinct, xy magazine, Windy City Times, Q Northeast, Metroland, commUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology.’ He has been profiled in Unzipped, Genre, Diversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine. From 2008 to 2012 he served as manager of the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region. He and his husband Andy were married in 2010 and remain happily unburdened by children. His website has been up since 2003, making it one of the longest running personal blogs.