T-minus seven days 2018-10-31 I voted in the first election I was eligible to vote in: the 1990 primary. I don’t remember who or what I voted for. Straight...
Here’s a new one 2018-10-30 I checked my email at lunch today and had about 30 seconds of panic when I received this email from my own email address: Hello!...
Four years ago 2018-10-28 Missing my dad this fall, as I do every fall now. We visited with my mom today, carved pumpkins and so forth. We reminisced about...
Time and Consciousness 2018-10-15 Putting a thumbtack in this one for later: The sensation of cause and effect — time and its directionality — is actually the perception of...
I used to be an uncle 2018-10-05 On our bike ride home this week I told my kids about my ex-wife. We were talking about the definition of “aunt” and “uncle,” and...
I finally saw MOONRISE KINGDOM 2018-10-04 OK this review is a) six years late and b) really short but For fucks sake if you’re making a movie about camping set very...
Apple Watch review, update 2018-09-02 Jenny kind of badgered me into unpackaging my Apple Watch. (It is my birthday present after all.) I decided to wear it to my first...
A non-gadgety person’s review of Apple Watch Series 3 2018-08-31 I was one of the last people I know to buy a cel phone, ditto a smartphone. Far and away my #1 app, almost since...
Running Man 2017 2018-08-26 Watching Running Man (1987) set in the EXTREMELY FUTURISTIC YEAR of 2017. There are lots of things they got wrong (say it with me now:...
I was back on Twitter yesterday 2018-08-22 I went back on Twitter yesterday for the first time in about two weeks. I was dying inside just dying to know what was happening...
Reality TV♥ 2018-08-16 Discerning whether something is real or a fantasy is no longer a salient problem for daily existence.
Melancholy 2018-08-15 Posting eulogies for my puppy and then re-reading the eulogy for my father led me into the dangerous blind alley of nostalgia via re-reading old...
熊 2018-08-15 We have a new puppy, Kuma. Kuma means bear in Japanese. She is a rescue. Half German shepherd, half [???], and all teeth. Kuma loves...
Bismarck 2018-08-15 A few days after our puppy Newport died, we took Bismarck’s ashes to his favorite beach (Arcadia). We made a little shrine for him and...
Newport 2018-08-15 In early July, just after our trip to Newport, we got a new puppy. His name was Newport. He lived with us for seven days,...
“If you have to call out a coworker…” 2018-08-13 Umpteen years ago I got myself into a political war with a coworker. My father gave me this very good advice: “If you have to...
Three MOBY-DICKs 2018-08-09 On Matt Haughey’s advice I just downloaded my Twitter archive and it’s humbling. The tweets alone — which might reasonably represent “original writing” on my...
The Fan Letter I Never Sent to Ursula K. Le Guin 2018-01-23 Ms. LeGuin, I’ve been meaning to write you since I first read Always Coming Home, which was before I moved to Oregon, and that was...
