Month: October 2020
Portrait of the artist as a bald man
More than just narcissism, selfies keep me from repeating past mistakes.
Habitat and the MADE
I learned from a video from NoClip the disappointing (but not surprising, unfortunately) news that the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment here has had to leave its building in Oakland. They’re looking for donations, and have started a Patreon, to find a new home post-COVID. The thing that stood out in that video was…
Two Things I Love About Piranesi
Entry for the 7th day of the 10th month in the year everything was relentlessly awful
Ten Little Influencers
Thoughts about The Guest List by Lucy Foley, my constantly-changing opinions about snobbery, and the value of, well, trash
Paper Exhalation
A double book report for two tangentially-related books: Paper by Mark Kurlansky, and Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Notes on Being a Decent Human
Lecturing Americans to show sympathy for Trump is like lecturing someone going through chemotherapy to show sympathy for their tumors.
