The new Mary Poppins has been out for a week so I’m gonna talk about the only WTF moment for me: the extreme sports moment in it (skip this if you consider a critique of a scene a spoiler) At one point in the film, they need to get across town and decide to go …
Yearly Archives: 2018
The Great War
I saw Peter Jackson’s WWI movie They Shall Not Grow Old where they restored clips frame-by-frame and colorized them, and then combined those visuals with audio recordings of soldiers talking about the war, and on the surface it was an interesting project that really brought home how young everyone was and how brutal the war …
hashtag rich guy goals
Lately I’ve thought of all the ways my life would change if I ever became a rich guy. Think of this as an action plan, if I ever got to act this way. It’s sort of like becoming a prepper, it’s just I’m prepping for opulence instead of post-apocalyptic annihilation. I’ve come up with three …
My first second line
One of the best experiences on my recent trip to New Orleans was getting to witness a second line brass band parade from start to finish. I was there with a friend documenting the work done by the social clubs that put them on, and as much I tried to stay on the sidelines and …
Visiting the Whitney Plantation/Slavery Museum
When I read Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy a few years ago, I remember being shocked not just by the stories about today’s justice system, but the revelation that the first slavery museum in the US was opened to the public just a few years ago. Hundreds of years of detailed, brutal history and zero museums …
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Nine years
It was nine years ago today that I fell at home after passing out, and later learned I had a tumor growing at the base of my brain. Since then, it’s been good news as a drug regimen helped shrink the tumor and restore my hormone levels. I’m still on two pills to this day, …
What do the new emoji mean?
I’ve been a fan of emoji for many years, and every year I love seeing the new ones get released. They enter our phones and most of them are pretty descriptive, but you never know how people will adopt them, which of them will hit meme status, and ultimately what their meanings will entail. To …
*Spoilers* for season 2 of Patriot on Amazon
Don’t open this post until you’ve watched the entire second season of Patriot, and then only after you’ve watched season one as well. It’s the most fucked up comedy/action movie-like TV show there is. Smart and funny, and thought-provoking too.
New Hobby Horse with Erin McKean
I just uploaded a new episode of Hobby Horse with Erin McKean. If you’ve never seen her blog Dress A Day, you’re in for a treat. Erin has spent the past 13 years documenting how she makes her own clothes, what patterns and fabrics she chooses and posts photos of the final product. She’s got …
Loss
I honestly have no idea how I’m going to handle it when someone that hosts a podcast I’ve listened to for hundreds of episodes over many years ends up dying. I think about how much time face to face I spend with friends, even those I’ve known for over a decade, and then I contrast …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 