On not being boring January 23, 2010: I'm not sure what is worse, being boring or being bored. Being boring is perhaps more egregious. Being bored I can cut the borer some slack by reminding myself of my relative impatience around someone recounting, in too great detail, local traffic lights and their illogical timing: an irritation perhaps, but hardly a conspiracy, and hardly fodder [...] by Sina Queyras