We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Ray Bradbury
It’s (Still) Not About the Technology
With 100,000 subscribers, The New Yorker is enjoying better sales on the iPad than its sister Condé Nast publications — including Wired Magazine.
But wait… Wired is all about technology — and in particular all things digital — and the iPad is a digital platform. Shouldn’t they go together like peaches and cream? Pizza and beer? Like Wired Magazine and a freaking 21st century wireless multimedia tablet display? Well, yeah.
August 3, 2011
Special Writers’ Edition If you would write, you must read. Building conflict, one cruelty at a time. Quick 50 Writing...
Our Intermission is Over
I must apologize for not having written here of late. I’d been awaiting inspiration. As it turns out inspiration was likewise waiting for me, albeit in another, quieter place; one free of politics and social media and noisy aggregators of fluff and nonsense....
Happy Birthday, Al
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind...
Sugaring Season in Vermont
Driving around Vermont this time of year you’re sure to see the telltale blooms of steam billowing from hilltop sugar houses… Vermont’s surest sign that we’re at the muddy intersection between a long, snowy winter and spring greening. I suspect...
Oscar 2010 Blind Picks
Having watched none of tonight’s contenders for the little golden man — that’s right… of all of the nominations I’ve seen not a single one1 — I figure I’m still about as qualified as the next guy to pick the winners. Which,...
Repost: Town Meeting Day
Reposted in honor of Vermont’s annual tradition… today is Town Meeting Day! Town Meeting Day — the first Tuesday in March — is an institution in Vermont, and throughout much of New England. It’s notable for being a hands-on, participatory...
Things I’ve Learned This Week
Don’t take a back injury lying down. 300-year-old double bases are for playing. Well. Neil Gaiman has a knack for breaking it down....
White on White (on Red)
Local news: an untold billion crystalline paratroopers cast their downy way down, whirling, twirling, tumbling to land — gently — on roofs and posts and caps and the occasional expectant, outthrust tongue. It’s winter… it should by god snow....
Would Poe Approve?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `’Tis some...
And You Thought the Movie was Horrifying
“A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda at the nation’s largest movie chain pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public...
Oh, hi.
Wow… November, huh? I mean, I’ve managed to go without updating Bloggle for a while at a time, but this is a stretch even for me. I had the best of intentions, of course. And it’s only on the occasion that I picked up a bug and have been away from...There And Back Again
Have I mentioned that I’ve been stupid busy lately? I was certain I had, but… you know. Memory. Goldfish. Mad Cow. Mooooo. Regardless, I haven’t yet forgotten I’m supposed to be writing something here from time to time. Let’s see…...
Hello, Vancouver, Goodbye
Herself and I had a too abbreviated experience in Vancouver, owing to a increasingly typical SNAFU on the part of United Airlines — %&#$!%, United! — which left us in Chicago for, oh, some 24 hours longer than we’d planned. (Chicago, you know I...