The New Noisy Sky
A decades-long effort to redesign aircraft surveillance systems and some of the good and bad it has created.
A week in Sayulita
A week-long trip to Sayulita, Mexico in pictures.
An Unearthed Journal Joins Social Media
A lost journal discovered. The fates of books. The fate of fate.
Brain Drains
Learn, forget, learn, repeat
Oregon
My family travels into two rental cars across Oregon. What a state. The place is nice too.
The Orgo Experience
It's Wednesday, 5pm, and I'm nervously awaiting my grade in Organic Chemistry, the class I've been quietly suffering through since January. I've been getting anxious, speculative texts from classmates…
Slow-Reading with Proust
The Swann's Way experience. #literature #proust
Percival (Thelonious Ellison) Everett
Write like you talk. Play like you walk. On last night's reading at Brazos Bookstore.
Welcome to Suckville, A Week in Quarantine
Quality time spent with radioactive iodine.
Skewering the Skeuomorphs
A design trend and an upheaval.
Kerala: Judaism, Communism
Mattanchery in Kochi’s western district is a popular tourist destination notable for its eclectic blend of historical sites and bazaars. One of its most famous neighborhoods is an area…
Bill Hanley: Genius
The man who single-handedly invented the concert sound system. File under: amazing people deserving wider recognition.
The Black Orpheus Mystery
Black Orpheus is a beautiful movie with an equally beautiful soundtrack. I recently found a copy of the original LP for $3, which is now in almost constant rotation.
The Zachary Breaux Jazz Fest (Jazz Where Least Expected)
Many years ago, guitarist Zachary Breaux took a vacation with his wife and three daughters to the sandy beaches of Florida. As they meandered along the shore the group…
The Freakishly Smart President
Which President earns the title Most Freakishly Smart?
The Bufos are Back
It’s late spring and the toads have returned. Every April thousands of breeding-obsessed amphibians invade our neighborhood for an extended game of Where’s-the-tadpole? These fat little lumps, better known as the…
Roger Ebert: Hero
Roger Ebert’s battle with throat cancer has been a quiet background story for many years. News that the disease cost him his jaw and the ability to speak emerged…
Hipster Proto Bands
Band name-dropping is a tried and true technique for making yourself appear knowledgeable and cool. The more obscure the band the better. The smaller their output the better. If…
An Apple for an Apple
A brief history of the Battle of the Beatle, the legendary band's enduring conflicts with Apple Computers, EMI, and their future in the digital musicsphere.
Blinded by the Douche
“Blinded by the Light” was a perplexing piece of pop music. Despite the song’s surreal refrains, or maybe because of them, it achieved anthem-level notoriety in 1976, popular among both hipster children and…
