My dreams of late have been getting creative. I went through a phase of lucid dreaming, when I was conjuring up sparkling rivers and fields of dewy flowers, just to make things pretty. In one dream, I thought, “I should have a boyfriend,” and lo! One appeared, holding my hand as I traversed a weird…
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Laurie Anderson: Storyteller
First, and admission of ignorance: I’ve never really tried to figure out Laurie Anderson. My first experience of her was the soft-avant-garde-electro-pop-poetry she put out in the 1980s. It fit somewhere in the sphere of intellectual art rock, which was perhaps a bit too mature for a fifteen year old with giant Sisters of Mercy…
A Great Wheel
As a little Friday afternoon workplace adventure, most of us aro.com employees took a spin on the Seattle Great Wheel, down on the waterfront. This time of year, there are few tourists below retirement age or children, so apart from us there was a preponderance of the cruise ship set. As we approached there were…
Mortality in Suburbia
Every six weeks for the past 36 weeks I have taken a bus from downtown Seattle to Juanita, several miles North of Kirkland on the other side of the lake. Normally this would be a 30 minute bus trip, but on the weekends when the 520 bridge is closed it takes over an hour each…
Link Casserole 8/31/12
Eek. I put together a list of interesting reads last month. A bit dated, but here it is: This week’s reads: China Mieville’s keynote at the Edinburgh World Writer’s Conference on the future(s) of the book(s), with a demand that writers be paid to write (!) Bic is selling pens for women. At last! The…
I am more than the sum of my datum
The internets know a bit about me. I’ve never made a particular effort to hide my online behaviors from the “powers that be” because, well, it’s not very interesting or particularly revealing. I’m also curious about for what all of this seemingly banal data might be used . I see the targeted ads, and they…
Arming the Crazies
About 30 minutes into the midnight premier of ‘The Dark Night Rises’ a young man began firing into the crowd at a packed suburban multiplex in Colorado. At least 7 people died, and as many as 70 more were injured. Over the days to come we will learn more about the shooter, who we now…
A Whole New Thingy
This site will contain: Information! About me and my professional life and interests Cultural commentary, and thoughts on things I read or watch Personal experience essays Photography This summer marks a transition to a whole new thingy in my life, as one door closes, there are a few windows that I might crawl through. Blogging…
Vague and vaguerer
I seem to be losing focus, lacking connective tissues. The photos on my Flickr page… hundreds and hundreds of mosses, branches, western skies, with barely ever a human. And certainly none of those chummy shots of multitudinous shining smiles and raised glasses. Floating in some lonely ether. I don’t think this particular blog, with its…
Field Notes 7/17/11
Field notes are observations made on the day published. * The lingering aroma of burnt zucchini. * Boy with bike to his mother: “What if two cars were trying to smash this bike into a pole?” * Bus-stop sign, toppled. * Osmos is better than Angry Birds. * That laundry is not going to fold…
Plumb Wonderful 