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and I heard it in the wind, and I saw it in the sky

Someone please explain the appeal of horror movies to me. Thanks.

no one lives forever, though; no one’s wise to try

Sometimes my obsession with Ted Leo scares me1. I have either RJ or Marie to thank for introducing me to him, not sure which. Both of them made mix CDs for me within the same six month period, one with “Me and Mia” and the other with “Biomusicology.” Or maybe “Bridges, Squares” was on one [...]

achewood, 2001-2011

New post on Overthinking It, giving a recap and light analysis of Achewood, the best webcomic the 21st century has produced so far: Yes, drum machines can be confounding. Why is Philippe standing on the instructions for the drum machine? No reason given. Five-year-olds just do odd things sometimes. Why not get him to move? [...]

if you don’t, you’ll be alone and like a ghost, I’ll be gone

I lost my class ring some time over the weekend. I wore it to work on Friday and I couldn’t find it on Sunday evening, when I was dressing up for the Yelp event at the Artists for Humanity Epicenter.* At some point in the intervening time I took it off and set it somewhere. [...]

but it’s no laughing party when you’ve been on the murder mile

Updates on writing: I commissioned a cover from Ryan Sawyer. The back and forth on design elements took about a month. Coming from a job where I deal with imprecise client demands all day, I tried to be considerate and clear in my comments on each draft. Ryan says I was fine to work with [...]

I went looking for some writing that I knew would not be there

So after an unending series of Presidents spur money into the housing market as well as institutional investing, to the point that the best investment for an exorbitant FY-over-FY rate of return is real estate, even above and beyond what the market could plausibly sustain – condos in the shittiest parts of Florida flipping four [...]

I can’t read the map, no one’s ever seen the path

Referencing “Stuff White People Like” in my post on Hipster Thanksgiving inspired me to check in on the site and see how it was doing. Apparently things are going really well or really poorly, as the last update was February 3rd of this year. I’ve written before about my belief that not all media translates [...]

check the technique, see if you can follow it

Forbes.com has published an op-ed that is the least literate thing I’ve read since the last time I read a Forbes.com op-ed. And I’m not talking about content. I’m talking purely about the ability to string a sentence together and make its meaning clear. Some highlights: Call me prejudice [sic], but if the credibility of [...]

hipster thanksgiving

This past Saturday, I was coordinating gaming schedules with Fraley, RJ and Brandon. Next weekend wasn’t looking so good. “So that’s the 22nd out,” I said. “And the weekend after that is Thanksgiving. I mean, Halloween; the hipster Thanksgiving.” Fraley gave me a quizzical look. “Well, you get to dress up, but you’re doing it [...]

hong kong, part 5

Part Four What else is there to do in Hong Kong, besides eat dim sum and buy cheap merchandise? Try a foot massage! But get a recommendation first, because every block has the sign of the smiling insole poking out of one building or another. We got a recommendation from Josh and Emma (echoed by [...]

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