I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations /past and present /are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.

He wasn't the sort of person I would seek out in the pub, ... There was always tension around him and he would argue a lot and get very drunk. His wife Caitlin was a worry, too.

We have a tendency when we're faced with great tension to get some relief by writing about it in a way that's less than serious. The effect was that people were plainly suffering and maybe to release some nervous energy he exchanged some emails about how he looked on TV and how his clothes were. It made him look like he was insincere, like he couldn't deal with serious issues, and that all he was interested in was how he looked. It also made him look like he was wasting time when there was no time to waste.

Fuck the past. This was the present.

There's obviously a tremendous amount of tension between him and Infinity and it's getting closer and closer to the witching hour where he's going over to Sirius Satellite Radio, ... So many are watching, from stock watchers to radio programming watchers. It's ripe for rumors.