Bubbles
Latest Posts
Welcome to Day 12 of 13 of my tour of the Balkans with Just You. We’ve travelled from Romania through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia – and today we return to the city where we started: Bucharest. You can find the whole...
One of the beautiful things about social media is the inspirations that might come on any random day, and not even from people we know. This morning, a post from a human I don't know (Jim Hankins) came across my Facebook feed. Here's...
For absolutely no particular reason, I watched the first episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King the other night.(I almost said “re-watched” because I can’t imagine I haven’t seen this before, but it’s been 43 years since it aired, so who can...
Over the years on Bandcamp I’ve amassed a few hundred digital releases. I’ve purchased vinyl, tapes and merch from there too but they’re for another day. You know how it goes, you find a band, check them out and decided you have to buy...
I first spoke to Chi, the owner of Mō Corner (a handmade leather studio for cases for your tech, like iPods, retro handhelds and e-readers), while working on my RG Rotate revisited article, where I wanted to highlight some of the people...
Sunday Asides #109 The trailer for the new reboot of "A Different World" dropped this week, and of course, nerds are never satisfied. Well, Black folks are never satisfied, but when it comes to media representation, what else is new? For...
…you find the perfect angle for a photograph. Chrysler, September 20, 2019: In 1986, I assembled a cardboard model of this building, about three feet high. It’s served my household ever since. Despite temptation, I have never built an...
Chelsie was in my homeroom in high school. She was pretty, quiet, and almost always serious. I rarely saw her smile, but every so often she wore a short black leather jacket that seemed to fit her perfectly. I noticed her more than once,...
In the previous post, I covered the contenders that would be taking part in this second round of DVD rewriting endurance tests. In this video-heavy post, I’ll be covering the results of a total of 4285 cycles of rewriting in total,...
Matthew Bird is a watercolor painter based in the Baltimore area whose primary subjects are still life, portraits and figures. When I first glanced at the page of still life images on his website, I thought he was painting in a...
last chanceEyeballed the sides for a while before the glue up. I was thinking about what to do next and if gluing the carcass up would interfere with that. I couldn't think of anything but I went topside for a coffee break first.Lowes...
By George Eliot. It's absolutely wonderful; for me, somewhere between Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss. From what I can gather, Romola tends to be considered (when it's thought of at all) only as a curiosity ("hey, George Eliot...
I have decided to announce my sabbatical, sabbatical, sabbatical-batical-batical.
There's a bit in Robert Rodriguez's interview with Quentin Tarantino where Tarantino admits to being affected by how much of a commercial flop GRINDHOUSE turned out to be, and goes on to laugh about how Rodriguez doubled down and...
Kakistocracy is a form of government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens, often leading to incompetence, corruption, and mismanagement. It’s essentially rule by the unfit. It’s not a new word (coined in...