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Originally aired Friday February 4th, 2011. Gary Lacrosse’s new Podcast, “Conversations,” continues with co-hosts Andrew and Richard. The conversation is about walking. Richard still uses a Discman when he walks around, and it has a maximum bass booster. Andrew insists it has ESP. Richard determines Wednesday is the least important day of the week. Andrew […]

Some 40,000 years ago, a volcano erupts in southern Italy, sending a blanket of ash as far as Moscow. Along the way it dusts the people of Kostenki village and all their effects, including bones, shells and teeth pierced by hand-spun drill. In Neolithic Pakistan, a hand drill made of green jasper bores into the […]

A few weeks ago the Northwest artist James L. Acord passed away. I have fond memories of visiting James out on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, when he was working and living there. He was the only person working outside of the defense / nuclear industry to posses a permit for uranium. He sculpted with it. […]

One must fight the pressing of the bummer button. One must resist the ennui of the slowly-impending midwestern blizzard everyone keeps shrieking about on weather.com and in various emails to me. One must make oneself read the Baudelaire translation of Poe one bought during a long walk across the entirety of the left bank in […]

That’s right, after a little break, I am back. Prepare for some posts!

Urban Honking Radio is proud to present the debut episode of our new podcast, Conversations by Gary Lacrosse. Every week Gary Lacrosse selects a timely, societal, and cultural topic while welcoming a special guest for discussions and questions straight from his personal journal. Co-hosts Richard & Andrew help field live telephone call-ins from around the […]

Yesterday for the last day of ITP’s 4-in-4, Mike Cohen, David Phillips, Spike McCue, Liza Singer and I sweded The Incident. “Sweded The Incident,” of course, when written out makes about as much sense as “Yahoo Serious Festival”, but let me explain what that means. “Sweding” is a style of lo-fi recreation of movies that […]

A year and a half ago, I quit being a professional programmer. For the four years or so previous to that, I’d made websites for a living, either for clients or for my own startup. At that time, if you’d asked me what matters in a programming language — what makes one good — I […]

When my brother was a wee boy, still in ski school, he once got stuck on a chairlift that broke down. He was probably 8 years old. Me, being in the big kids competitive freestyle team he would soon join, was not stuck on said chairlift, and was in fact enjoying hot chocolate somewhere while […]