Yearly Archives: 2009

Hopefuller

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flick A lit­er­ate coun­try — a hope­fuller coun­try… – For­mer Leader of the Free World, George W. Bush Recent events have tran­spired to make me less despair­ing of the future. Here, in ram­bling, semi-coherent form, are a … Con­tinue read­ing

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I think I’m being told something, but I’m not quite sure what it is.

Don’t be fright­ened to dis­play your tal­ents. — Brian Eno’s Oblique Strate­gies, as just seen on Twit­ter Your tal­ents will be rec­og­nized and suit­ably rewarded. — For­tune cookie taped to my monitor

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Thursday Frivolity, Lebowski-style

The Man has seen fit to remove the Kenny Rogers audio from my Lost Skeleton/Big Lebowski mashup. That being said, I’m not the only one doing wacky audio­vi­sual things with that clas­sic of bowl­ing, ‘Nam, rug-peeing, and Cau­casians. In the … Con­tinue read­ing

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New music for Spring!

Yes, it’s true. March 20th is the offi­cial First Day of Spring. After the win­ter we’ve been through, both weather-wise and life-wise, Carla and I (and, it seems, every­one else in our lives) could use the thaw. To cel­e­brate the momen­tous … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Fear of Falling: Why it Matters

Image by \ Ryan via Flickr I orig­i­nally wrote this back in Sep­tem­ber, after hear­ing the news of David Fos­ter Wallace’s sui­cide. Recent events have caused me to rethink why I was sit­ting on this post… Make no mis­take about peo­ple … Con­tinue read­ing

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