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Tears Before Bedtime I Can’t Stand the Silence The new single from Tears Before Bedtime makes its intentions clear from the moment you hear its haunted, dark vocals and the thumping drum track that punctuates them… This is a track that...
My green heron friend had something to say! I imagine this is his story.It’s not easy being (a) green (heron)…And why do they call me “green” anyway? Do you see green?…having to spend each day climbing through the rocks and leaveswhen I...
It's that time again for my weekly update, which includes a short collection of noteworthy finds, posts that inspire, as well as a few reflections from the past week or two. I'll aim to land these in your inbox by the weekend, in time to...
They rush through everything. Not because they need to, but because slowing down means confronting an emptiness they’ve been running from. Source: I was obsessed with money… then I found philosophy When the corporate career fell apart...
I’m not sure if it’s a New York thing or not, but I love that small business owners have artists paint the sides of their trucks with absolutely outlandish graffiti scenes. These panel trucks roam the city with just some hand applied...
I have a folder of RSS feeds called "The Crisis." It contains feeds from Talking Points Memo, Heather Cox Richardson, Empty Wheel and Timothy Snyder. I seldom read many of the posts in that folder. It's too depressing, and they're seldom...
Personal I’ve been cooped up at home for most of this week due to health problems and just general ~~vibes~~ so there wasn’t a lot happening to talk about. However, I did manage to, at least, successfully navigate the passport portal and...
I know many young people today are struggling. The costs of living are up. Housing prices are high. College debts are mortgage-sized, and healthcare costs are ridiculous. These are facts in the United States. Healthcare and education are...
A Blender issue #152467 (“File Browser thumbnail cache broken with large amount of images”) reminded me to write this up. This particular issue is a (documented) surprise that when you have a parallel_for in TBB, some of the loop...
Despite vowing not to read sequels of books I love, I'm constantly surprised that regression to the mean is an iron-clad law of the universe. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in the series, so eagerly gobbled up the second. What a...
Midway through Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs had the biggest lead in NBA Finals history — twenty-nine points. They ended up losing by one. One word explains most of it: momentum. I think about it every time something...
In January 2024, just a few weeks after I decided to ditch Substack over its unwillingness to kick Nazis off its platform, I jotted down this half-formed thought in a scratch pad: What if we banded together and created a gaming...
Just a small pitch for watching the early movies of a director you love. Sólo con tu pareja by Alfonso Cuarón came out in 1991. It is weird and great and if you like later movies of his, Y tu mamá también (2001) and Roma (2018) which...
I just finished Richard Langston's superb new oral history of The Clean, In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul (I had a tear in my eye at the end). I always enjoy shoehorning into this blog stuff I like that really has nothing...