Essay

Back when twitter was fun—and I mean way back, not just pre-Musk—I had three or four tweets that “did numbers”. Nothing you would call viral, but in the hundreds of retweets. And one of them was something like: It’s a shame we’ll never get a Terry Gross interview of Terry Gross. I wrote this, not really expecting any response, late one night when I was feeling things. And I meant it. Read more…

I loved this book so much I read it twice in succession. As is typical with Powers, there’s a lot going on here. His usual themes, surrounding technology, art, and the natural world, are in full form, coming together in a multi-threaded and highly rewarding character driven plot. This story is especially current and relevant to me as he grapples with things that cut deep in my own life. Like Powers, I have a background in technology. Read more…

When I was around 14 years old, casting around for new things to listen to, I found The Nylons 1984 album Seamless in my dad’s record collection. I loved the whole album right away, but I especially loved The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

I’ve been in a bit of a groove lately reading about badly behaved women

I’ve been in a bit of a groove lately reading about badly behaved women

I watched Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla on Saturday and I can’t stop thinking about it.

I re-read this book yesterday as a sort of healing balm as I grieve…

Tonight I sat up late watching ninja turtles on the tv and waiting for my brother to finish dying.

I talked to my Aunt about The Road once several years ago. She said she loves McCarthy, but she didn’t like this book. I remember her saying she couldn’t enjoy a book that is “so hopeless”.

With all this talk about thinking machines it seems like a good time to point out that computers don’t even understand math, which is something they’re very very good at.

It must be earned.