: I’ve always loved peering into the inner workings of imaginary houses via cutout …
: On the latest episode of the Symbolic World podcast, Jonathan Pageau explains why Disney trying to …
: My wife and I are generally aware of the same cultural touchstones. I would say I was a bit more …
: Uncle Crizzle Resurfaces Back when our local newspaper, The News & Observer, was more of a going concern, I used to dig …
: After buying this razor from Henson, I have officially made two purchases after seeing the products …
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Headlights Pointed At The Dawn
For this Friday Night Video, we’re going back a way, to the mid-nineties. Smashing Pumpkins had …
: Unpublishable.txt Chris Butler writes about the words he chooses not to publish online and that end up in his …
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The Return of Googie
Anna Kodé has a piece in the New York Times (gift …
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Dell Charm
Nick Heer from Pixel Envy points out that Dell hasn’t lost its branding charm. When configuring a …
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Analogue Grand Diary
Maybe it’s a bit early to be making New Year’s resolutions. Though this used to be a popular …
: The embed function of Micro.blog uses quoteback.js. The results are quite nice when pasted into …
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Post Dreams
Not too long ago, I posted about a shoegaze cover of a music charts staple from decades ago and, …
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The Man Who Would Be King
One of my all-time favorite …
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Like A Virgin
Madonna’s most well-known album, Like A Virgin just celebrated its 40th anniversary. Like A …
: Roon Audio has a new feature that should delight headphone lovers — OPRA (Open Profiles for …
: I’m a bit surprised, but pleased, that Target carries Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble’s …
: For my money, Garrison Keillor does the gratitude thing about as eloquently as one possibly could. …
: Our town’s only movie theater just closed. I wasn’t a regular, but my son was.
: Sam Tornow writes about Thurston Moore and The Smell of Vinyl for Discogs. Moore is a famous vinyl …
: Just finished reading Shogun - Part 1 by James Clavell 📚. I don’t want to sound like a snob …
: The only social networking site my brother has ever been on is Miitomo.
: David Saavadra writes for El País about the rise and fall of the Stone Roses, a band many had pegged …
: Austin Kleon has a post on Dave “Big Dutch” Nally, whose deceptively amateurish art …
: A little quiet storm feels perfect for this Saturday morning after a busy week.
: I disclosed my most fondest Christmas wish list item to my lady friend last night — a FiiO DM13 …
: Non-standard Sunflower The election is, whether mercifully or unmercifully, in the rearview mirror. Like some others, I …
: Save, help, and protect us, O Virgin Theotokos.
: My mom asked my brother where he gets his news. He listed WRAL (a local news channel/site), IGN, …
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On Dark Horses
Recently, I had a conversation with a colleague about music. I had gone to see one of my direct …
: Luke T. Harrington, echoing the end of Voltaire’s Candide, when writing about our current …
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Yvette Young - Always
Upon discovering the new single from Yvette Young (via Instagram of all places), I was immediately …
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The Mouse House Redux
Some of my fondest memories are of times at the Disney World theme park. In fact, some of the first …
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Triple Seven
I had been reading a lot of buzz around the Indianapolis band, Wishy, and their seamless blend of …
: I’m eager to check out the Devo Tiny Desk Concert, which draws me in the same way the Cypress …
: The new anti-toxicity feature on Bluesky that allows a user to detach their original post from a …
: I loved the “Pack Lunch, Drop Kids Off, Skate,Work” short photo essay from the NYT (gift …
: While I think the journaling addition to HEY calendar looks very inviting, the idea of storing …
: Back To Worship I missed Divine Liturgy last week because I had to bid goodbye to my wife’s aunt, who just …
: Noble Oak - Eveningstar Recently, a friend on Mastodon asked followers about their first cassette purchase. I had no trouble …
: One Actress And A Melon The creative forces behind Ginger Root have a concept for a show featuring one actress (it’s …
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Your Analyst Was A Placekicker For The Falcons
I woke up at 4 AM a few days ago, hungry from fasting. I decided to check out what the internet had …
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Music Media Mayhem
I go back and forth about how I like to listen to music and on what media. I've been doing this for …
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A La Sala
In Paul Simpson’s review of the new album from the Houston-based Khruangbin (sorry, no link), A La …
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The City We Forgot To Name
Asymmetrical news coverage at most of the mainstream media sites is something that I’ve almost just …
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Substack Lock-In
Probably the closest publishing platform to the one I'm using — Ghost — is Substack. Although …
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Borderline Savings Time
A friend recently introduced me to the Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy podcast, wherein Fr. Andrew Stephen …
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Sharing Is Caring
In many ways, though not in all, it’s gotten much harder to share the music you love with …
: Oh Spotify, All Is Forgiven Neil Young put his catalog back on Spotify. He was moved to do so by the fact that Apple and Amazon …
: We’re Big Pants People Again The NYT recently ran a piece about baggy pants coming into fashion again. The observances about the …
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Community Versus The Individual
Alisa Ruddell wrote a masterful and in-depth review of the visually stunning animated film The …
: What We Do Now The new J. Mascis album, What We Do Now dropped recently, and has garnered a fair amount of …
: Sophie I’ve loved the fourth track on the Small Black record, Limits of Desire ever since the album was …
: Enswiftification I don’t always read Freddie deBoer because he can sometimes be a bit… well, mean. At the same time, …
: Parallel Play Lately, when my wife and I are both on our iPads, she watching Law & Order reruns and me reading …
: Blessings Unbound I’ve read a few conservative reactions to the pronouncement from Pope Francis that Catholic clergy …
: The New Aggregators This seems to have been the week for feed aggregators, with The Icon Factory and Silvio Rizzi …
: Blame Me This video for the song “Blame Me” by Bathe Alone is described as a “short film.” It’s full of …
: Messages Jane Penny, the frontwoman for TOPS is following in the footsteps of her bandmate Marta Cikojevic …
: Pitchfork Scales Back Spencer Kornhaber covers the merger of Pitchfork with GQ for The Atlantic. Yesterday, Condé Nast’s …
: The Darkness of AI Casey Shutt considers an article on AI by Paul Kingsnorth for Mere Orthodoxy. Kingsnorth sees …
: Going After Spotify Jess Weatherbed writes for The Verge about members of the European Parliament targeting Spotify with …
: Sacred Time As I headed to Divine Liturgy yesterday morning, I was glad to be able to participate in sacred …
: Connection Vs. Isolation I've been fascinated by the idea that the opposite of addiction is connection since I first heard …
: Unconditional It was getting dangerously close to the end of the year, and I still hadn't picked out a favorite …
: All Over By Xmas The first band you think of when you think of Christmas music is probably not Ladytron. Then again, …
: Hotline TNT - Protocol Cartwheel, the new album by Hotline TNT on Jack White's Third Man Records, has the distinction of …
: What Would It Take? Years ago, then presidential candidate Donald Trump famously said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. …
: Nevermind The Mainstream Ted Gioia writes about the battle between macroculture and microculture. ChatGPT makes the …
: Surburban Solutions At the beginning of this year, I went through a bit of a thought experiment. I imagined that I had …
: The AI Poison Pill I have benefitted from the use of AI recently. When I wanted to buy a complementary DAC and speaker …
: Ubiquitous Therapy As someone who in college majored in psychology and family and child counseling, I’m a proponent of …
: A New Listening Experience I finally reached the breaking point with Apple Music. I’ve been a loyal Apple Music subscriber ever …
: Bury Your Credit Card We recently had a training exercise at work which took the form of a quiz on various compliance …
: Disappointment and Modernity Fr. Stephen Freeman writes about the modern condition in a way that resonates with me and what I've …
: The Exercise of Humility The first time I went to an Orthodox Christian Church, it was with a group of confirmation students …
: Sonic Economics I've been writing recently about my new appreciation for physical media for my music collection. …
: Karaoke Night Karaoke Night by soccer mommy When I went to the Hopscotch music festival a few weeks ago, two of …
: Matter Podcasts Integration Matter continues to add features that make a subscription to the service even more valuable. The …
: No War For Heavy Metal (Outcore) This article about the lifecycle of tricks in skateboarding really brought back memories for me. It …
: Time To Make The Donuts Last week, I spent some time serving at a soup kitchen. This soup kitchen no longer serves soup, but …
: May They Persevere The moment when I became a catechumen in the Orthodox Church is captured on Instagram. There are a …
: Natural Ones If the soundtrack to the movie Kids isn't my favorite film score, it's certainly close to it. I …
: Link Rot Jason Morehead laments the way content is disappearing from the internet. He brings up the way …
: No Country for Rich Men North of Richmond Recently, a musician with the adopted name of Oliver Anthony became famous overnight for a song he …
: Site-Specific Browsers At the recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple previewed their new OS for the Mac, …
: 🎵 Keep It To Yourself If all goes as planned, I will be going to see the bands TOPS and Men I Trust at the Ritz in the …
: Issue No. 59 It has been an eventful week in the news, with the former president and his cadre of criminals …
: 🎵 Tides Turn We haven't yet made it through the first half of the year, but I think I have a contender for my …
: Issue No. 58 I realize that Wordle probably isn't as popular as it used to be. However, the game is still fun and …
: The Heavenly Option Bandcamp just featured a primer on indie pop deep cuts in Bandcamp Daily, and I was surprised to …
: Unravel Two I started playing Unravel Two on the Xbox at the insistence of my 11-yr.-old. Playing cooperative …
: 🎵 Romantic Piano Gia Margaret caught my ear a few years ago, after she contracted a vocal illness that forced her to …
: 🎵 New Beginning In this retro-futuristic video, the members of Automatic live through the final days on Earth and …
: Road To Knowhere Road to Knowhere by Tommy GuerreroI bought Tommy Guerrero's album, A Little Bit Of Somethin', when …
: Doctrine of the Mean A few months ago, in my Orthodoxy 101 class, we discussed Aristotle's "doctrine of the mean." I …
: The Prescience of Seinfeld Maya Salam writes for The New York Times (gift article) about how close Seinfeld was to capturing …
: That's So Meta John Herrman writes about the failure of the metaverse concept. He's clearly disillusioned with …
: Tongues of the Future Malcolm Harris writes for Wired magazine about Doug Rushkoff, a techno optimist who had his …
: Privacy Policy Last updated 05/14/2023 What Information is Collected and HowCanned Dragons is a personal blog. When …
: Issue No. 55 The Legend of Zelda Gets An UpdateThe latest The Legend of Zelda installation, Tears of the Kingdom, …
: Windsurf I don't typically use fan-made videos for Friday Night Videos, but this one is just so perfect. The …
: I'm Still Uncomfortable With Amazon A couple of years ago, I wrote about Amazon and my discomfort with a number of the practices that …
: Rise Above “The discovery that dead people stayed dead was not first made by the philosophers of the …
: Here's To Shutting Up I recently listened to an episode of the Art of Manliness podcast about the ability to shut up in a …
: Flux Observer Adam Wood hosts a show called Flux Observer that features one of my favorite podcast concepts: Wood …
: Tumbling Down Jonathan Haidt and his colleague, Greg Lukianoff, believe that the enormous increase in mental …
: The Candy Culture Wars John Paul Brammer wades into the candy culture wars (which are adjacent to the chicken sandwich …
: American Shoegaze The recent piece on the new wave of American shoegaze in Stereogum was nothing if not exhaustive. …
: Last Known Good I've been working on my blog design lately. Occasionally, a situation will arise in which I do …
: Home Canned Dragons is a weblog about faith, noise and technology, written by Robert Rackley. "For the …
: Rock and Roll As Youth Culture I used to have a well-worn VHS cassette of Sonic Youth’s tour video, 1991: The Year Punk …
: No Roof, No Floor I generally don't do year-end lists, but I like to share a couple of my favorites things from the …
: Is Mastodon Really Is The Spiritual Successor To Twitter? Mastodon was created in 2016, and the site still harkens back to its origins, a time when Gamergate …
: Rooted In Place In a worship service recently, our pastor explored the genealogy of Jesus as presented in the book …
: Junca De Sol Andromeda I was already a fan of the angular and noisy Truman's Water, Glen Galloway's former band, when he …
: When You Sleep Live at The Murmrr Theatre by DIIV Perhaps the definitive cover of My Bloody Valentine’s …
: This Time, I'm Out After 14 years and over 10,000 tweets, I've deactivated my Twitter account. I've been critical of …
: Predicted Collapse My degree is in psychology, and though I focused on family and child counseling, …
: Ignoring The Big Fish In The Room For a few years now, I’ve followed a “read the Bible in a year” program. Last year, I used the plan …
: The Ghost of Jehovah This week I got the latest issue of Presbyterians Today, the periodical from the Presbyterian Church …
: Your Musk, My Tusks So, the deal has finally gone through, and Elon Musk is the new owner of Twitter. The first thing I …
: Many People Are Saying… Several times a week, I get an email from my son's high school with a link to a newsletter-type of …
: The Spawn of The Daily Show If you are as interested in media trends and their implications as I am, an article in The New …
: 🎵 Matthew 7:7 This week's Friday Night Video is a bit of a departure from other recent entries in the series. …
: 🎵 I Would Die 4 You I feel blessed to have come across a clean recording of Chvrches' version of Prince's messianic "I …
: Sophists and Frost Giants I never stop wanting to love the New York Times and they never stop stopping me by publishing dopes …
: 🎵 Billie Toppy Men I Trust return with a new single to accompany their tour of the states. This one surprised me by …
: Blogging As Self-Care I have been on a sort of crusade to get more people to blog recently. If I come across a person who …
: Andor Depicts War Amongst The Stars I will start by showing my cards here and admitting that I can’t wait to see Andor, the latest of …
: 🎵 True Mathematics Frank Yang commemorates the 20th anniversary of Ladytron's Light & Magic LP in a post on Space …
: Freestyle Fever A fellow microblogger has been posting videos of himself freestyle skateboarding and it has reminded …
: Culture Wars Come To Middle Earth In Your Favorite Pop Culture Has Just Gone “Woke.” Now What? by Jason Morehead, the author examines …
: Institutions Absorb Anxiety I'm not sure what to think of this piece from Mere Orthodoxy on panic over the direction of Western …
: Typing As Music In a piece for the New Yorker, David Owen writes about the world of mechanical keyboard enthusiasts …
: 🎵 Cannonball If you look back at the music I've shared on this blog, you wouldn't doubt my devotion to nostalgic …
: Skateboard Hooligans I was reading my friend Adam's newsletter, Tendrils, and I came upon some quick thoughts about the …
: Issue No. 32 Moving Past DisruptionPaul Ford writes for Wired Magazine as the co-founder of a software company …
: Minimal Mac I was texting with an old friend the other day, and he was documenting his progress in getting three …
: The Radiant Citadel One of the co-creators of the latest official D&D adventure, Journeys Through the Radiant …
: An Argument for Blog Portability Last week, I published a micro post about my thoughts after reading Matt Birchler admonish his …
: The Friend Of My Enemy The biggest irony of the last couple of weeks has to be Rep. Peter Meijer’s loss in the Western …
: Issue No. 29 Relative Sci-fiI've heard some grumblings about the new Star Wars TV series online. The Book of Boba …
: Airshow I consider myself fortunate to have procured a subscription to the feed reader platform Feedbin, …
: Arc Welder When I first heard about Arc, from the Browser Company, I thought, who would want to get in the …
: 🎵 Always There The first thing that hits you from Swiss outfit The Churchhill Garden's "Always There" are the …
: Sch-Sch-Sch-Schism A few years ago, when I was teaching confirmation at the PC(USA) Presbyterian Church of which I am a …
: 🎵 Finest Hour - The Radio Dept. The concept of the Finest Hour playlist is to distill a favorite band's discography into an hour of …
: To The Holy The church that I have been attending, All Saints Orthodox Church has a new website design and a …
: Issue No. 24 The U.S. has been shaken by the repeal of the judicial precedent set by the Supreme Court in Roe v. …
: 🎵 Finest Hour – Polvo In a recent newsletter, Adam Wood proposed something called "Finest Hour." The project was to create …
: Issue No. 23 The heat is on. While we have successive heat waves sweeping across the U.S., I'm thinking about a …
: Ironsworn: Starforged I wrote about the sci-fi successor to the fantasy tabletop RPG Ironsworn in the Week on the Web …
: Issue No. 22 I sent out a note last Sunday about switching my blogging to a self-hosted solution. It was a lot of …
: 🎵Decades and Dreams I posted a video from Atlanta's Bailey Crone, AKA Bathe Alone, just a few months ago. I had to share …
: Work In Progress I wanted to let everyone know that there have been some changes to the blog. Frosted Echoes has gone …
: 🎵 Terminal Ever since she showed up in the band TOPS, I've thought Marta Cikojevic looked like a 70's icon. Had …
: Rotten Apple I have been growing increasingly frustrated with Apple lately. Apple is a giant company now, as …
: Breaking News A colleague was just telling me about how he hasn't watched the news in approximately three years. …
: 🎵 I’m A Sensory Explosion Lumenette is a new musical project from Christine Byrd (Hammock contributor and wife of musician …
: Reading It Later I have a Kobo Libra 2 ereader, and it’s one of my favorite devices. Of course, it is used for …
: Now Inspired by Derek Sivers, this page includes a sample of what I’m thinking about and working on …
: 🎵 Perfectly Out Of Time Stray Fossa is a band that Apple Music kept pushing on me until I realized that I really liked them. …
: Come To The Dark Side (We Have Cookies) A lot of times, when I watch movies that pit good vs. evil in easily distinguishable sides, I wonder …
: 🎵 Mint Julep - Covers Covers by Mint Julep The 1980s was a decade that started with an album called The Age of Plastic. …
: Why, As A Christian, I Can Sympathize With Some Prayer Shaming This post was originally published on Medium — December 13, 2015. Unfortunately, due to the …
: Orthodox Christianity, The Far Right and the Green-Eyed Christ A new book entitled Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in …
: 🎵 Full Moon Baby I love how Hollie Cook is able to blend reggae and dream pop vibes on her new single, “Full Moon …
: Less Is More I have decided I need to introduce some changes to how I post online. I typically write a lot of …
: Smashing Political Binaries Lois M. Collins has a profile of Elizabeth Bruenig, whom I’ve long admired, for Deseret News. The …
: 🎵 Come On Let's Go Captured Tracks recording artist Scout Gillett covers the standout Broadcast track "Come On Let's …
: Cashing In My Chips My first thought when read (at the end of a long day of work) that Elon Musk had purchased Twitter, …
: Dance Music For Introverts Sometimes Apple Music inspires me by algorithmically playing fitting sequential songs after a …
: Eastertide I look at Easter not just as a day, but as a kickoff, if you will, for Eastertide. I see it as …
: Issue No. 16 Other than writing, I have been trying to avoid too much screen time. This week, I turned to paper …
: Populations In The Lurch Derek Thompson wrote a newsletter edition for the Altantic about population growth collapsing in the …
: Buzzing Towards Babylon With no formal announcement (whoops), Wordpress.com changed their pricing significantly, removing …
: Writing For An Online Audience At Micro Camp 2021, Patrick Rhone did a talk on writing a book and he delved into the topic of …
: Hyper-capitalism vs. The World Rebecca Riddell has an opinion piece for the Washington Post (🔗 Via Lisa Sieverts) on the US trying …
: Work For Love Ministry mastermind Al Jourgenson, or "Uncle Al" as he is affectionately known (probably as much for …
: Horror Head Frank Yang, of the late Chromewaves.net, has a new blog called Space Echo, where he does what he …
: The Twitter Corps In a piece entitled It's Not Your Fault You're a Jerk on Twitter, Katherine Cross writes for Wired …
: Keeping It In The Box When I was a kid, I spent a good amount of time with a cousin of the same age. Throughout our …
: Issue No. 12 I’ve been experimenting with different blogging tools for the last few months. My favorite blog is …
: Imprecatory Prayer I had never come across the phrase "imprecatory prayer" until recently, even if I knew well what it …
: Issue No. 11 As I mentioned this week, my great-great-grandfather moved his family from the Ukraine to Minnesota …
: Beating Monsters With The Cross The day before President’s Day, I went to church for the first time since last summer. I’ve been …
: Brothertiger “Torn Open” Torn Open (feat. Yvette Young) by Brothertiger I know, I know, I just wrote about Brothertiger …
: Issue No. 10 I did watch some of the Super Bowl, despite my aversion to sports where people regularly get brain …
: Pop Psychology and the Decline of Marriage It turns out that not everything I learned in college en route to getting my psychology degree has …
: Issue No. 9 Spin magazine posted some rants from musicians and industry insiders who think we need to talk about …
: Elevator Pitch Beliefs The clip of Stephen Colbert expressing some basics about his faith is making the rounds (especially …
: Worth the Wait FEEL GOOD ABOUT FEELING BAD by J U L I A • K W A M Y A I met Julia Kwamya at a Radio Dept. show a …
: Issue No. 8 Welcome to the eighth issue of Week on the Web. I hope your week has gone well. After just under a …
: Spotify Canceled If you aren't up-to-date on why artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are upset with Spotify's …
: Tatooine Under New Management ⚠️Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Book Of Boba Fett. Matt Poppe typically reviews …
: Issue No. 7 The big news in the world of American Christianity this week seems to be the Vanity Fair profile of …
: Repairing the Cracks (kintsugi style) Sometimes, I feel like I need to stop ruminating on the "deep cleavages in American society," as …
: Issue No. 5 This week, I gave in to the hype and started playing Wordle and quickly became addicted to my daily …
: Barrie "Darjeeling" Barrie is another band that was recommended to me by the Apple Music algorithm. I immediately …
: Exchanging the Truth For Lies Professor at a Christian college, Chad Ragsdale, has a blog post in which he embeds an episode of …
: Anger Unmasked In our county, mask mandates in schools continue to be a hot button issue. There are parents who …
: Issue No. 4 Andy Nicolaides over at the Dent urges us to take it easy on ourselves when it comes to social …
: 🎵 Geowulf "Saltwater" Last week, I wrote about some musical favorites from 2021. This week, I'm posting the video from one …
: Issue No. 3 Image source: Artturi Jalli/UnsplashMy favorite Christmas piece this season was How Christmas …
: 🎵 Spectres “Northern Towns” For this Friday Night Video, Spectres comes your way with some powerful, muscular post-punk. At …
: Issue No. 2 Matt Birchler writes in Photography Needs to be Fun about how the new Glass photography network …
: Hazel English "Nine Stories" This is definitely the most playful music video I've seen in some time. You have Hazel English, …
: Pissed or Blissed? Austin Kleon quotes Bill O’Hanlon when he talks about the four energies for writing. The first two …
: Issue No. 1 Amazon employees yet again have reason to complain about their treatment from the company as it …
: Hoops "Cars and Girls" Last week I featured an important song in the Japanese city pop genre and made the comparison to …
: America Defeated Itself In America, those that lived during the time of World War II are often referred to as "The Greatest …
: Mariya Takeuchi The song for this video is from 1984, but the video was shot just recently. Originally not a huge …
: Endless Talk About Culture War Alex Nowrasteh writes for Arc Digital on why there is so much culture war commentary ("from encoded …
: Punishing Facebook Facebook has been outed in the US for its dishonorable practices, but what it’s done in this country …
: Asymmetric Possibilities The other night, I was reading through the cover story for this month's issue of The Atlantic, The …
: Spotify Envy Around this time of year, people are always buzzing about their Spotify Wrapped playlists. They post …
: Work Drugs "Nervous Night" Work Drugs bring their smooth yacht rock to this video of a girl wandering around a city. There are …
: eBay Has Become The Pirate Bay Over the years, I've had three eBay ID's. eBay used to allow logins from a single-sign on provider …
: Bathe Alone "Limbo" Bathe Alone recently recorded a series of videos at The Standard Electric Recorders Company. These …
: Inoculation Station Paul Kingsnorth kind of lost me on his anti-vaxxer rant this week. He is particularly worried about …
: Kessler Syndrome I remember a time, not long ago, when we laughed at the introduction of Space Force from …
: Weezer “Take On Me” On the Weezer appreciation scale, I’m at the end next to Leslie Jones’ character in the infamous SNL …
: Learning Prayer From Cartoon Bears When my oldest was younger, we used to read a Berenstain Bears book about prayer. While the books …
: Paying For The Product Over the years, Cory Doctorow has made himself an expert on digital privacy. This essay is mainly …
: About Canned Dragons is a personal web log by a prolific notetaker named Robert. This blog pulls in …
: Everyday Radicalism B.D McClay points out how everything we do is being reframed as political. Rest is a radical act. …
: Munya “Voyage” A few weeks ago, I blogged about Quebec artist MUNYA and her upcoming album, Voyage to Mars. MUNYA …
: Colatura “At The Met” I realize that I posted a video from Colatura not long ago, but the second single off of their debut …
: Likes and Easy Feedback There has been a fair amount of debate recently about the utility of being able to “like” posts on …
: Common Sense Violence ⚠️Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Apple TV+ series Foundation, as well as some graphic …
: TCD (Total Cost of Dishonesty) Years ago, I had a bad experience post-surgery when my wisdom teeth taken out. A couple of days …
: You Are Not Your Own The radio started when I turned on the ignition. NPR had been playing from when my wife drove the …
: The Great Pitchfork Apology Pitchfork recently revised ratings on 20 albums from the past, mostly raising scores, but also …
: The Night the Darkness Revolted Revenge bedtime procrastination came up as a topic of discussion on Micro.blog a little while ago (I …
: The Resemblance is Uncanny A couple of years ago, I compared contemporary Christians who expressed their desire for an …
: Gimmie Indie Rock Garrett Martin writes for Paste Magazine about the seminal year for indie rock that was 1995 and the …
: Duett - Leisure Leisure by DuettDuett has been around for a while, but just came to my attention via Bandcamp's …
: Tough Love I recently started listening to the much-acclaimed podcast on the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, …
: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Apps The new photo sharing app, Glass, has been getting a lot of attention. One particular corner of the …
: Personal Knowledge Management My name is Robert, and I have a knowledge management problem. As I mention in my bio, I'm a prolific …
: Work Drugs "Drive" WORK DRUGS/PICTURED RESORT EP by Work DrugsLast week, I chose a live recording of Pictured Resort …
: Film School "Isla" Film School just dropped a single for "Isla," from their upcoming album We Weren't Here …
: Ethical Consumerism and the Amazon Dilemma Last Christmas, my sister had one prohibition on her wishlist for her Secret Santa: Nothing should …
: Music As Teenage Cultural Capital When I lived out my teen years, in the early nineties, the musical landscape was much different than …
: China Literally Moved Mountains for Apple Jack Nicas reports for the New York Times. In 2004, Apple decided to expand in China with a factory …
: The Sound of the Fury When Medium decided to stop funding many of the publications on their platform, most editors of …
: Cassandra Jenkins “Hard Drive” Have you ever thought about how hypnosis so closely resembles guided meditation? Especially the …
: WandaVision Collateral Damage Over at Opuszine, Jason Morehead has a detailed examination of what the WandaVision experiment put …
: Fear and Loathing In These United States By most accounts, evangelical Christians are concerned about the path this country is taking and …
: Inside the Gallery I have to admit, I have been somewhat surprised at people arguing against tech companies being able …
: Vinyl Church Jonas Ellison writes about wanting to attend a vinyl church, and I’m here for it. What does he mean …
: The Digital News Stand When I think of new media coming to us in the form of a la carte, individual packages, I can’t help …
: You’re Not The CEO Mio works at a record store in Gothenburg, Sweden (also home to one of the finest contemporary psych …
: Star Wars Is About Faith Earlier this year, on Star Wars day, I looked forward to seeing The Rise of Skywalker again and I …
: The Cult of Seeking to Serve Matt Taibbi has a thought-provoking edition of his newsletter where he ponders whether journalism is …
: The Social Media Morass A few months ago, Consequence of Sound reported on Disney passing on the chance to buy Twitter …
: Chipping Away At Democracy There has never been a better time to quit Facebook, after the company recently revealed a policy …
: A Continuing Odyssey This past week, Alto’s Odyssey, the sequel to the much lauded iOS game Alto’s Adventure, was …