As a kid, I spent a lot of years in constant motion between my divorced parents’ houses. I was never particularly good at keeping track of belongings — maybe because I had twice as many places any single object could be? — and for whatever reason, a recurring bad-dream theme was losing small, personal [...]
Slept a little fitfully last night. Woke this morning out of a dream in which (mostly) benevolent and unbelievably powerful aliens arrive on Earth and do little things like reroute rivers, create playgrounds where there were none before, and give everyone on the planet an iPhone. Most of their astounding feats happen [...]
If you’re living on the Moon and you’re approached by Gary Coleman who tries to teach you about the impermanence and flexibility of the rules of the visible world — very much like Laurence Fishburn’s character in The Matrix did for Keanu Reeves’ “Neo” — you should listen. Because if you listen carefully and [...]
… 4:20 a.m., that is. For the last week, I’ve (mostly) been going to bed sometime between 11 and midnight, and (mostly) been rolling over awake to look at the clock between 4:13 and 4:50 a.m., having just woken out of some odd dream. (Today: an old coworker falls into the city reservoir, [...]
Long piece on the BBC yesterday about Damien Hirst, the artist most well known for his works involving dead animals in tanks of formaldehyde. Also my last day at work, my last (formal) chance to make sure that the people taking on my various roles have the knowledge necessary to keep the same balls [...]