2025.11.DisappearingMoment
Imagine that you and I were the subject of an experiment. We let researchers place us in comas on November 1, 2017. They awakened us eight years later. We’ve...
2025.10.DisappearingMoment
In my experience, accountability has four requirements: Truth Timeliness Legibility Storytelling No lies or errors. Reveal what you know as soon as it’s...
2025.09.DisappearingMoment
In September, I started learning about literary journals. These are publications that feature fiction, poetry, essays, or visual art. Most are online, a few...
2025.08.DisappearingMoment
I hope there is something that you love to do as much as I love to write. For me, it is the perfect balance of difficult and rewarding. Beth and I went to...
2025.07.DisappearingMoment
My background contemplation this month has been about siblings. I am astonished by how different they can be. The way that some people seem more skeptical...
2025.06.DisappearingMoment
It’s satisfying to make something that serves your needs. Which feels selfish twice over. Taking the time to make anything feels indulgent. Serving my needs?...
2025.05.DisappearingMoment
A problem with leasing a Cybertruck? You might like it. Appreciate its comforts. It might be your favorite place to listen to music. Feel like you’re in full...
2025.04.DisappearingMoment
If someone at your gym offers you unsolicited advice, ignore it. Anyone who knows their shit keeps it to themselves. Even if you ask them for guidance, they...
2025.03.DisappearingMoment
I wish I could invest in Chinese companies. I don’t think it’s possible, and not just for me. I believe that it is impossible for anyone to invest in Chinese...
2025.02.DisappearingMoment
The Russian FSB picked up where the Soviet KGB left off. The KGB specialized in covert bugs and complicit informants. The FSB uses contemporary technology....
2025.01.DisappearingMoment
Beth was a committed vegetarian when we started dating, had been for years. I was several years in, too. And I had cut out dairy and eggs a couple of years...
2024.12.DisappearingMoment
This month, a lot of people got worked up about the possibility of mystery drones over New Jersey. We made Orson Welles comparisons. The New York Times...
2024.11.DisappearingMoment
If the world is ending, I want to be surrounded by kittens when it happens. Sleeping Marty, JoJo, and Lloyd (top to bottom) Sleepy Marty, JoJo, and Lloyd...
2024.10.DisappearingMoment
What are the odds that the worst human was born between 1878 and 1893? The world population in 1945 was about 2.4 billion. If 117 billion people have been...
2024.09.DisappearingMoment
“A device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.” That was comedian Fred Allen's description of... television...
2024.08.DisappearingMoment
I stopped following the news and renounced social media in 2012. I stopped following sports in 2016. Over the past couple of years, I let myself start...
2024.07.DisappearingMoment
2024.07.DisappearingMoment My favorite record review is about Slint’s Spiderland. Melody Maker ran it in 1991. Steve Albini wrote it. I thought about that...
2024.06.DisappearingMoment
I always wanted my hair to be different. A lot of us felt that way. Many still do. I wanted to look like Kelly from the Bad News Bears. Like Ace Frehley, the...
2024.05.DisappearingMoment
Something you can do for the people you love is prepare a letter of instruction. Like other elements of estate planning, it makes mourning a bit easier. No...
2024.04.DisappearingMoment
Reading. Everything about it. Right‽ You wouldn’t be here otherwise. Our intrinsic pleasure is modulated by texts. Good writing enlivens us. Jargon sends us...