In the course of riding around en route to some endeavor with a friend — someone whose judgment, intelligence, and sensibilities I trust implicitly — we indulged in some idle banter during which he asked what my desert island drink would be. Everyone is familiar with this sort of question. What is your favorite color? [...]
Archive for December, 2009
One of my first blog posts at The Spiral Staircase was about the LimoJet, which I found tacky beyond belief. Well, a new contender has appeared: the Batmobile Limo. OK, so this transgression against all things holy isn’t exactly killin’ babies or anything, but as I wrote before, there is something deeply wrong about a [...]
Living in Place
Posted: December 8, 2009 in Blogosphere, Consumerism, Environment, Ethics, Idealism, Industrial CollapseI have struggled from time to time to describe to friends and acquaintances why I’m disinclined to travel these days. They reply with the same blank incomprehension upon learning that I don’t watch TV: “Wha? How can you not …?!” If this blog were ever truly destined to help me work out my ideas rather [...]
Lots of joke memes develop at Fark.com, some of which make it into the mainstream while most appear to live and die at that website alone. One that always tickles me goes something to the effect “let it go, man, ’cause it’s [already] gone.” The newsbit to which it’s attached is typically someone chasing after [...]
