When I was seven, in 1987, we moved to Washington DC. We had lived in California as long as I could remember before that, though I was born in Nevada and lived in Oregon for a while as well. We…
Tag: But the Past Isn’t Done with Us
It’s Lumi Time!
Rumor has it that it’s the most wonderful time of the year. I couldn’t agree more. You can keep your ornate displays of high-watt outdoor bulbs, your blow-up santas and penguins, your animatronic lowing cattle and rooftop reindeer a-tromping. Save…
Revisionist History
From time to time during the seven years of this blog’s existence, I’ve added new categories for indexing the various kinds of posts one sees on this page. I’ve long eschewed the notion of a specialized blogging pursuit, such as…
My Life with (Ms.) Pac-Man (or 84,400 Points Can’t Be Wrong)
Ms. Pac-Man has played a major role in my existence. I think I first played the arcade classic in the early-mid 1980s, probably just after it had come out. My father was a big fan of the early Pac-Man tables…
Cop Immunity
When I was in high school, I devised a thought experiment that I discussed extensively with my friends. It was called “Cop Immunity”. My question was whether someone would take the deal of having total immunity to all interactions of…
Fear Factor
I am continually discovering how much of my life is fueled by fear. I’ve ridiculed fear a lot in this blog lately, most especially in criticizing what motivates voters and pointing out how silly it is for Americans to fear…
Why We Love Serial… and May Eventually Hate It
Spoiler alert, kind of: I will make reference to anecdotes about this show through its current airing, which is Episode 9, but probably not say anything that actually ruins your listening experience of the show, yet. More spoiling might be…
You’ll Never Believe How Bad Internet Headlines Have Become!
Google “I didn’t write the headline“. Make sure you use the quotations. Or I’ll do it for you. 30,200 hits for disavowal of the headline content, almost entirely by the actual authors of the post or article that was being…
Decayed Decade
I almost called this post “The Full View of History”. But of course ten years is hardly a full view. A little over a decade ago, I wrote this on my blog at the time: “Yesterday, Em & I were…
Fear in the Box
Maybe election day is just a little too soon after Halloween. We’ve discussed American fear, its prevalence and perniciousness, quite recently. We are afraid of terrorists, even though what they are supposed to wield as a most scary object is,…