Reading How To Say I Love You when something Scott David Herman wrote popped into my head. Drawing an analogy between Roger Federer and David Foster Wallace:

I gather that his own experience is not that he is particularly intelligent or observant or articulate, but rather that the things he wants to describe, imagine, evoke, etc., appear to him perfectly obvious and right within reach; and that, when it comes to writing these things down, the whole breadth of the English language appears quite compact and unbelievably easy to use.

Which is a perfect way describe my feelings about Paul Ford. Ftrain is one of the tightest, most amazing collection of stories anywhere online or off and you can pretty much do no wrong there, but here are a few of my favorites. Maybe print them out and read them on the ride home this Thanksgiving.

• Relapse - This one story basically justifies the entire internet.

• My Life with Cat and Dog, a Story - Paul’s lesbian librarian alter-ego did not get nearly enough play on Ftrain.

• Vacuuming the Lungs - Not a story, but handy advice which I actually needed on occasion.

• And my personal favorite, a two-parter: Bridge and River Consecration & East River Unconsecration - because as good as Paul Ford is at sharing heartbreak and personal horror, he’s even better at offering hope.