Create PDF of PostPrint This PostI’ll start out by confessing that Dr. Cornel West largely fell off my radar over the past few years. Mea culpa. Mea culpa albus. I’ve also been mostly lukewarm on Anderson Cooper for no real reason other than CNN has the worst panel discussions imaginable. But CNN still rocks when […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This PostOne of the phrases that keeps popping up over the past three and a half years has been some variation on “I never in my life would have imagined…”, followed by a description or photo of whatever daily excess our government has committed as part of its ongoing stumble to […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This PostA night of fractured scenes, only one cohered in memory. On a full airliner. We land on the top level of a parking deck.1Planes flying through and landing on parking decks are recurrent in the i2b dreamscape. I am asked to stay seated until everyone is off the plane. As […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This PostIn which the nightly escape from our waking nightmare is sometimes not. I find myself toiling once again in the corporate world, this time an ominous place focused on cyber security.1I actually worked for two hi tech security firms along the way. It was very Blade Runner: all black and […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This PostThe nightly dreamscape has been wild of late. This series hopes to capture some of the weirdiality. Not necessarily significant. But damn…. I am on a business trip to Atlanta, sometime post-pandemic. I rent a car because I am told mass transit is impossible, and taxis are dead because Uber/Lyft […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This PostA quick addendum to yesterday’s post made necessary because I am really out of practice at this so I forgot the main thing I wanted to share about Wu Fei. Around three weeks ago, Wu Fei announced that she would present a piece of music every day through a subscription […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This PostI danced around this piece all last week. With everything so upheaved, I felt obligated to deliver something with heft, depth, and consequence. To offer something that might offset the grim reality that plagues our everyday. Writing essays about how the world is fucked up and bullshit are easy enough […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This Post “Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland A few days ago, our more-or-less president paid a visit to an Arizona factory where they manufacture Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), in this case the N95 masks that […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This Post As part of “Operation America Strong,” the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds announced they will fly joint operations over Washington, Baltimore, New York, Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Austin, sources told USA TODAY. It was inevitable that vocabulary and concepts around COVID19 would come to lean heavily on […]
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Create PDF of PostPrint This PostLove in the Time of COVID19 A fine pal suggested I offer some strategies for Boredom Immunity as we endure our varying degrees of lock down and isolation. I doubt I have anything useful to suggest, but why let that stop me, right? It hardly seems real. Unless you are […]
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