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Peter Davis1 delivered the Graduate English Address as a Harvard Law School graduate at Harvard’s 2018 Commencement. His speech is titled A Counterculture of Commitment. The defining characteristic of our generation, says Davis, is...
This week was mostly conversations — new scope, new people, a lot of catch-ups. When you step into a bigger job, the temptation is to start deciding. The better move is quieter. Four things I was reminded of. First listen 1. In a new...
Having arrived back home with no particular difficulty, I am actually kind of relieved that studios are still giving The Odyssey and Spider-Man a bit of space, so I can watch some suddenly-good baseball and write movie reviews. I opted...
This week I am reviewing a wild card read, as I was not quite sure what to expect. Antony Carr (1916-1995) wrote five mystery novels during the 1950s. Online information is limited but two of his other mysteries appear to be A Comedy of...
Kroyer, Hip, Hip, Hurrah! 1888, Gothenburg Museum of Art, SwedenImpressionism was at first a French art movement, starting in the second half of the C19th. Impressionist techniques included visible, thick brush strokes of pure colour,...
It’s been a while since I’ve tried making a game. I write little ideas down in my notebook here and there, snippets or ideas that I think might be fun to do something with, but it’s been I think two years since I’ve made a finished game,...
In Port Tennant, Swansea, in the late 1950s, Sunday school was not negotiable. You went to school, you played endless games of Kick the Can on the patch of wasteland we called the Bank, and on Sunday you were scrubbed, buttoned into...
How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know? How much should we update, therefore, that it is a lot worse than we know, after accounting for all the things we now know? At some point, when the ‘oh this was a harmless...
He stepped inside, arms full, milk tea from Auntea Jennie in his right hand and various plastic bags holding plastic containers and featuring a cute yellow duck. The post The People of Jiangsu, and How to Confuse Them first appeared on...
Five Curious Habits of My Poodle The offering Most dogs aren't happy if someone stands beside them while they eat. If you are standing next to mine at mealtime, you might get a piece to taste, just like he sometimes gets one from our...
A poemAre there any good guys? Like, the rich pedophile billionaires that run the country; are there any good ones that aren't pushing for an authoritarian rule over the country? I hope so! A Blow'emIn my desperation and loneliness, I...
In which I, yes, stare at the navel a little bit. I'm waiting for pizza in the festival line when the clock strikes midnight. We're sweaty, tired, and ecstatic all the same. Greasy cheese becomes a delicacy. K comes back from the...
The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin (Tor, 1980) Hugh, suddenly overwhelmed by the dreary, lifeless routine of work-television-work, runs from the house he shares with his mother. He does not know where he is going. He runs down...
It has been almost 65 years, since Martin K. Speckter dreamed of the better world, the world where we do not waste punctuation marks. It was one gloomy night he was by the fireplace with his wife, when it hit him. “Honey, we need to save...
The doomer take on the internet is that it is designed to divide, to polarize, to isolate, to weaponize… maybe in the pursuit of monetization but usually - according to the pundits - a more nefarious purpose. While I consider myself to...