Here’s a screenshot of a graph of my social network on Facebook, generated with the Social Graph application. This isn’t anything new, but I was…
Pronounce the dot.
Photo by Jenn Forman Orth Yesterday my daughter and I were sitting on the front steps playing the “game of hiding.” That’s where she grabs…
Photo by Derek Bridges / CC BY 2.0 Expanding on a comment I left back o’ town: Finally saw it Thursday night. Absolutely blown-ass-away. All…
reflections (A) by camil tulcan We had overlapping houseguests last weekend. My mother-in-law was still here, and we were also playing host to a former…
Now might be a good time to register for the Lafitte Corridor hike on May 8. photo by Charles London Here’s a new song I’ve…
Sometime way back in 1992 a co-worker of mine at DialAmerica, a freaky long-haired nipple-ringed Mormon dude named Rob, told me that he and another…
We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat. — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal,…
The ubiquity of Facebook plus the end of Net Neutrality plus the conversion of the open internet into increasingly walled off proprietary information delivery systems…
Guess what I was doing 33 years ago today? Well, actually I don’t know. But I know what my mother was doing. She was posting…
Here’s a mix to enhance your Easter celebrations, however wholesome or depraved they may be.
I got this update from Baty Landis via e-mail. She’s on the task force assigned by the incoming mayor to find a new police chief. I respect Baty’s efforts on this front; she is made of sterner stuff than I. What she reports is cause for concern for all New Orleanians.
My sore throat hasn’t improved, but it has changed quite a bit over the course of the last two and a half weeks. It started…
Today is Census Day — and also April Fool’s Day — and also Maundy (aka Holy) Thursday. How best to celebrate? Here’s what some of…
I don’t seem to have been writing much here lately, and I’m not sure why. It could be that mentally I’m on spring break, and…
Abstract abstract of an abstract by Kevin Dooley A dream I had over the weekend: It was back a couple years ago when we were…
Get ready for Easter with this special message about the true meaning of the holiday.