Urban Honking

This version takes about two minutes to watch. If you’d like to enjoy the full-length version, please visit the post prior to this. That one takes about two hours to watch. I guess it’s like a Hollywood movie preview. It shows you the whole movie in about two minutes.

A few months ago Alfredo asked me if I could fill the lobby of the Liquid Agency offices in Portland with a history of Plazm. Some of you may have stopped in during the Design Week Portland open house and got to see the exhibit along with a bunch of other Liquid work. We plan […]

What’s up turkeys? It is my last weekend before the semester’s end and the LITERALLY ONE HUNDRED papers I will then have to grade in a little less than a week. This weekend, however, I have nothing but band practice, eating, lying down, and bathing. Huzzah! I am not here to talk about my exciting […]

Become fluent in another language learn how to meditate for real, not fake-ass American meditation fix my leg injury learn to do scorpion pose read so many books I know I’ll never read go on a vacation to a cabin by a lake get LASIK for old people not regret not having children start taking […]

The weeks grow ever-more harrowing as semester nears its end. We pass one another in the halls, we professors, and our greetings grow increasingly flustered and brief. “How are you?” “Hanging in there, you?” “Sort of.” There’re also a lot of countdown greetings. “Good morning, how are you?” “Six more days” My offices both work […]

Today I have to write an 8 page talk about Virginia Woolf that I forgot I have to give on Wednesday. I’m going away this whole weekend to a conference, so suddenly I realized I gotta write this talk TODAY. Also do laundry, pack, buy tampons, the usual pre-travel stuff. I have my whole talk […]

Last night we went to see The Wicker Man at the Hollywood, which somehow neither of us had ever seen. I have always heard the scariness of this movie referred to in reverential terms usually reserved for things like the Exorcist. For some reason I associated this movie with being the scariest movie of all […]

Hey people of the earth! Well, here’s some ADVICE, for what that’s worth. What do you think? Please weigh in in the comments because I think the more the merrier, in terms of Big Life Questions. Also I just wanted to let you know that yesterday I found out that the explosion of printed material […]

Yours Truly, I am working on a graduate degree in elementary education. It’s a year long intensive program that is a special kind of hell and I keep fantasizing about quitting, but I can’t make a decision. I am 27. I finally decided to go to graduate school because I was sick of working really […]

Well as usual, I am reading and thinking about death on this beautiful Saturday. Specifically, I’m dipping into Philippe Ariès, The Hour of our Death, a famous old tome written in 1977 (the hour of my birth) in which, over the course of some six hundred-odd pages, Ariès traces Western culture’s attitudes toward Death from […]