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Fuchs

I’m about three points of chance from having become an ascetic. Instead I’m somewhat of a runner with a penchant for caffeine, reading, learning languages, and other wandering pursuits.

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About those Ancient Tweets

In your last post, Bryan, on the topic of Tweets and satire generally, you write you just have no stomach . . . for anything that looks like making light of real problems, or for using broken things as a means of displaying one’s wit. . . . It’s too easy to mock, to

Rank Possibilities

I’m still digesting Lee Drutman’s comment below from election night over at FiveThirtyEight. I'm wondering how his suggestion for more political parties as a remedy for hyper-partisanship would work with ranked-choice voting. I tend to prefer the notion of having no political parties. But I acknowledge

System Processing

What a week. Hell, what a start to this millennium. But these past few years in particular have me thinking about the systems we live within, the structures we erect, and a yearning to reconsider them thoughtfully. Toward that end, I have my eye on these three books, in no

Run for Your Life

I don’t listen to music as I run. I prefer to take in my surroundings to their fullest while I’m out on the trail. But this afternoon I could hear in my head “Don’t Fear the Reaper” as I passed harvested fields illuminated by a golden November

Little Distractions

It’s November 3, 2020—evening here in the United States. To you fellow citizens of this nation, I'm confident that, like me, you are presently wondering which font you should be using in your preferred text editor. Wondering after fonts, or which is the best pen for

Age-Related Sloth—or . . . Focus?

I think the world of my brother-in-law. He’s a really impressive fellow with an array of talents and a keen interest in learning. So I was surprised to hear him suggest that he has recently been feeling like his mind is hardening to new technologies. It seemed somewhere between

It’s All about Timing with Dragons

Dragons have been making a move in the Halloween space the past couple years. That seems to be a new thing. Or, at least, I don’t recall seeing dragons associated with the holiday prior to the last year or two. I appreciate that dragon symbolism and interpretation varies widely

The Subtle Joy of Paper

There’s a truth in the texture of an envelope that finds its way to your hand after a journey through the post. And the letter within is an envoy, a pact, a trust. I find that each time I receive one I can’t help but fold and refold

Mind How You Go

Twenty-odd years ago my dad locked me I got locked out of the house. My dad and I had gone out for the lunchtime buffet at Godfathers and came back sated and happy. It was a hot, summer day. Scorching and humid, really. The kind of heat that blankets the

What about the Birds?

We’re big fans of Hitchcock in our house, and among our favorites is The Birds. It’s a seasonal, spooky watch for us that always garners the same response as the opening credits roll: “Hey, this is based off a Daphne Du Maurier story. We should get that.” Which