I’ve been reading a ton this spring, which is a welcome change from last year, when I read close to a decade-low number of both books and pages. I heard Junot Diaz on the radio a few weeks ago during…
Category: Quick Updates
Seventeen Years of Blogging
Yesterday was the seventeenth anniversary of Introspection, my first blog. It lasted for just seven years and change before the daily short-format gave way to this more haphazard long format, now nearly ten years into process. My first post was…
Obligatory Uber Book Update
It’s strangely unsettling writing a book without a title. Both American Dream On and The Best of All Possible Worlds were titles before they had any other content whatsoever. And Loosely Based was entitled on 12 June 2001 (as a…
Top Twenty Questions I Get Driving Uber in New Orleans
In approximate order of frequency: 1. Are you from New Orleans originally? 2. Where are you from originally? 3. How long have you been driving Uber? 4. Busy night? 5. Are you doing Uber full time or do you have…
Several Counter-Intuitive Things I’m Thinking Today
It’s gonna be roundup-style today, kids. The loose thread tying it together is that I’m thinking things I think most people I know might disagree with. The snarky among you are saying “Why should today be unlike any other day?”…
Getting Closer Every Day
Ten days ago, I wrote this post about how close most games have been for the Seattle Mariners during the 2015 season. I focused on closeness through the traditional metrics for such games – extra inning games, one-run games, walk-offs.…
It’s 2015 and You are Alive
There’s a lot going on. There always is. Despite the efforts of various media outlets, phone applications, and the narrative brain to confine your existence to a narrow set of coherent and perfectly tailored activities/perceptions, reality is a cacophony of…
5 Days Out: A Brief Photo Retrospective from Albuquerque
It is five days before perhaps my favorite night of the year and worth putting a little visual element to the experience of preparing for putting up one of the largest luminaria displays in the city where they are most…
My Public Ballot, 2014 Louisiana Run-Off Edition
This is probably the most inconsequential election I’ve ever taken part in, especially given that my primary act was to abstain from the headline race because (a) it literally forced me to vote for a Democrat or a Republican and…
It Doesn’t Really Snow Here
A quick click of the refresh button will show you some new imagery around here. To review, here was the old header: And here is the new: Of course the actual versions are much larger, trying to span the entire…