Urban Honking

we watched Forbidden Planet last night. I’d never seen it! It is a very cheaply made film. It takes place mostly on a sound stage in front of a couple of different trippy paintings and it has one of the most poorly designed robots in film history. If you could build a robot that could […]

Well, it’s another snow day. This is unreal! Think how much it has to snow, to make a town in the middle of new england call a snow day. The answer is “a lot.” It’s still snowing. I will tell you one extremely weird thing about these storms which is that they so far have […]

I am getting really into comparing the national weather service website to weather.com. I don’t really get how or why weather.com became such an ultimate clickbait nightmare–it’s just the weather! What are they trying to prove? National weather service will be like “winter storm warning in effect. Travel may become hazardous between late tonight and […]

Here I am, on the 26th floor of the library! That the library has 26 floors is only the most obvious clue that the people who commissioned and designed this building have themselves never used a library or thought about why anyone might use a library. It is absurd. I have already failed in my […]

Well here I am, in the middle of my second new england blizzard! Everyone keeps congratulating me. “This is it! You’re having a new england winter!” So far it is fairly okay, especially since they mainly keep happening during what is my weekend. The snow plows are out in force, and soon the men who […]

I just re-read my World War Z essay and it made me want to write a whole book about zombies. The fantasy of our time! “I sure would like to write a book about zombies”–everyone in America Also do you remember my essay about the secondary poster for the movie “Oblivion?” I could easily write […]

I don’t write much in my analog journal anymore, but sometimes I feel like putting pen to paper and so I do keep one around. It’s also good to have it as a kind of personal file to put the programs from funerals in or whatever. Dark! Anyway, last night I got it out because […]

We went to the basketball hall of fame on New Year’s Eve. It was really fun. It was more interesting than I thought it would be, to be honest (I thought it would be 1% interesting and 99% me holding Gary’s coat while he shot baskets, which to be fair did happen). The best thing […]

My old man is washing dishes and yelling jokes at me about things he’d like me to do in the new year – turn off the alarm when I get up in the morning – put leftover food in a tupperware or other container in order to save it in the fridge (’cause we can […]

You know the whole “elf on the shelf” thing? Isn’t it crazy how it’s the panopticon? Isn’t it crazy how we collude in our own disenfranchisement and oppression? “it’s just a stupid thing for children” you say, but “stupid things for children” are one of the primary ways new cultural values are propagated. See the […]