Eric Schlosser, Gods of Metal
Y-12 is the United States’ most secure weapons-grade Uranium storage facility. It is known as the “Fort Knox of Uranium”. …
Everything Everything, Get To Heaven
It’s difficult to write honestly about your feelings. It’s difficult to write about your feelings consistently, for a living on …
Inherent Vice: A Short Review
Tonight I finally caught up with Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel. It stars Joaquin …
Understated Classics #31: The White Room by The KLF
This little masterpiece was released in 1991. I got my copy on cassette for Christmas that year, but by May in 1992 they’d already …
Untitled 2
A few months ago I wrote about an idea for a novel that I’d abandoned. I mentioned in that post that I’d abandoned it because …
First Light, Last Light
I often ponder whether the joys of waking up early are greater than those of staying up late. Empirical evidence seems to bear this out: all …
Minions: A Short Review
The Minions got their own movie, just as I predicted in my review of Despicable Me 2. I went to see it this week and I enjoyed it a lot. …
An Initial Comparison of Apple Music and Spotify
My previous post about Apple Music was more a response to how it was presented at the WWDC Keynote rather than to the idea of Apple Music …
Album Digest, June 2015
To reboot this series, Album Digest June 2015 features five fantastic albums from Hot Chip, Jamie xx, Blanck Mass, Holly Herndon, and The …
Time Is Time and That Is That
A brief rant about Facebook: I hate the fact that the news feed defaults to “Top Stories” even though I change it back to “Most Recent” …
Learn X in Y Minutes
I found “Learn X in Y minutes” (www.learnxinyminutes.com) while researching the programming languages needed for a new project. …