Urban Honking

I’m in one of those zones I veer into periodically where there are two or three things making me really disproportionately angry and I just keep obsessively thinking about them all day and at night while I’m trying to sleep. Some of the things are global in nature and some are literally just a thing […]

I last wrote here on May 18th, the anniversary of my bike accident. A few months prior to that there was an event at PICA to both help offset a mountain of medical bills and to celebrate my recovery. It takes time to become what we are. There were so many amazing contributions to the event. […]

Early in Spring, 2012, just after Nicky da B’s “Express Yourself” video dropped, an online publication asked me to write an essay about bounce music, and why so many white people seemed to like it. I ended up writing not-that, but turned in a pretty thorough piece, I thought. They decided to reject it for […]

Hi everyone. Well, the day finally arrived. The day I had been awaiting with bated breath. The day marked in my iCal as “WWZ!!!!!” I asked my old man “do you know what tomorrow is” and he said “midsummer!” and I said “no, you fool” First, let me say that this entry contains spoilers. I […]

Graham Harman has always denied any deep connection between his Object-Oriented Philosophy and Object-Oriented Programming, from which he borrowed the name. Initially, fellow OOO-er Ian Bogost even resisted the use of “object-oriented” as confusing due to the failure of the computer science sense of the term to “mesh” with the philosophical one. But, the more […]

I finally put pen to paper and really tried to write down my thoughts on the zombie genre. I think parts of it are getting pretty close, and parts are still sort of lazy and muddily argued. I need to more carefully pick apart the mass culture vs. business culture stuff, for one thing. Also […]

I am eating leftover deep-dish Chicago-style pizza. If you can think of a better thing to suddenly remember is in the fridge, I would like to hear about it (don’t say “a million dollars”). Yesterday was Fathers Day and to celebrate, my dad and I rode in a gay pride parade float. It was a […]

Why is it that one’s period continues to baffle, confuse, and shock one, no matter how old one gets? Every woman I know is the same in this regard. Every single month it’s like, oh lord, what is happening to me, I am having a psychic break, call the doctor!! And then finally the woman’s […]

Baby’s first red eye! I was very afraid of it but it ended up being okay. I intentionally went to Dove Vivi right before going to the airport and ate half a pizza and a huge kale salad and a red wine and so I think I just kind of mellowed it on out. We […]

Plazm editor Tiffany Lee Brown at The Cooley Gallery Reception & one-day video installation: Saturday, June 15, 1–4 p.m. Conversation with the artist, 3 p.m. Reed College Library Lobby Anakena: The Easter Island Project Anakena: the Easter Island Project is the culmination of an interdisciplinary artwork spanning five years, seven cities, and the island of Rapa […]