I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I finally got around to updating my About page, and like it enough that I thought I’d let it do double-duty as today’s post. Plus I’m spent. Phew.  So here goes… I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy [...]

The commercialization of cool

I have mixed feelings when a commercial appropriates a song or poem I liked and never imagined would find its way onto a commercial. I am torn between being mad at the advertiser for debasing the piece and mad at the artist for letting it happen (sell-out!), and being practical about everyone needing to make a [...]

These are hard times for dreamers…

Last night, Jen and I set up an old-school silver home projector screen and (after an excess of technical difficulty, culminating in my 13 year old patiently explaining to us how to use the XBox controller) settled into screening Amelie, in preparation for our trip to Paris. Obviously, it is important to read Julia Child’s [...]

We live in a rainbow of chaos

(Quote by Paul Cezanne) So last night it was pouring rain, dumping rain, so hard that I got up several times during the night to check my basement and see if it was flooding (it wasn’t). I love the sound of rain on the roof, and the smell of rain in the air, but since [...]