December 30, 2022 at 05:35 PM
Should I start wearing a mask again
Notes — 2022
December 28, 2022 at 10:23 PM
Am I teaching my kids how to fly under the radar? To be invisible and live contact and conflict free. To just get by.
December 28, 2022 at 05:44 PM
I like to see what kinds of snacks other kids are eating and somehow pidgeonhole their parents based on that dumb scrap of info
December 15, 2022 at 06:31 AM
Pizza day a day early for school lunch. Which means, a bit less work for me than normal. Santa is coming to visit on a sleigh ... I mean, errrr ... a helicopter. Dropping things from helicopters seems to be a Texas thing on the major Christian holy days.
December 13, 2022 at 09:16 AM
I'm now always turning on the auto-check in the NYT crossword. It just makes life a bit nicer and simpler. Why torture myself over a letter or two?
December 09, 2022 at 12:55 AM
Saw The Smile tonight. Their groove is undeniable. The Melodie's are alright. The percussive guitars and the drums that can rise up and take over. The basement vibes of a jam noise band are cute. Hall of famers breaking back into the stage after a season away. I can see why they came to the U.S.
November 24, 2022 at 10:31 PM
Why would they talk? I wondered. As another evening passed nearly speechless and thoughtless, even the most consequential details overlooked and ignored. Miscommunicated. Half of what's said is misspoken.
October 25, 2022 at 09:55 PM
Consider the amount of your life you've spent turning socks and underwear inside out. Stop doing it now, before it's too late.
October 06, 2022 at 06:04 PM
Human communication is fundamentally a one to one phenomenon. And the internet has fouled it all up. And we all ignore phone calls now. And are unable to focus and pay small attention to what's right in front of our faces.
September 24, 2022 at 12:02 PM
I think I've thought and posted this multiple times, but I'm now convinced that YHF and Ghost are actually Jim O'Rourke albums.
September 24, 2022 at 09:44 AM
I'm obsessed with why my city chose to have the Y operate the new rec center. Not that I'm opposed. I'm obsessed with the actual decision making process. And what it means for me and the city.
September 17, 2022 at 10:08 PM
The need to move past staying up late to do nothing but spin your wheels.
September 17, 2022 at 09:35 PM
I still like flipping through channels better than flipping through the endless pile of streaming offerings.
September 06, 2022 at 10:51 PM
Why email is still the best mode of electronic communication
Respectful of attention and time Capable of deception or radical honesty Free and fast Also slower and more easily buried and unnoticed Expansive and containing a lore and etiquette Connection to history
August 30, 2022 at 03:29 PM
The rampant fetishization and hobbyization of notebooks and pens and paper has prevented many valuable words from being written - killed by indecision and aesthetic illusions.
August 25, 2022 at 10:50 PM
It's hard to believe I used to frequently wear ties and suit costs - just because.
August 03, 2022 at 12:04 PM
There's an old man here carrying a moleskine notebook in his back pocket.
August 03, 2022 at 11:35 AM
A mom was just calling her kids Nancy and Leroy to get ready to go. Don't hear those names often these modern times.
July 25, 2022 at 10:54 PM
What I want for our new house is that it would, within the first 6 months, function and appear and feel like we are about to list it for sale. Then I can live in peace.
July 12, 2022 at 07:46 PM
To a 2 year old the ocean is a giant puddle. Bringing equal joy to the one found in the store parking lot.
June 19, 2022 at 08:40 PM
The internet started to get bad when it undertook the task of showing us things. Figuring us out. Deciding what was worth our attention. These things instead of allowing us to pursue our own ends and means and interests. And organically find like minded people.
June 18, 2022 at 04:49 PM
At a Flying J on Hwy 20 in northern Iowa, the unedited version of "She Hates Me," the absolutely AWFUL Puddle of Mudddddd song, was playing on the public speaker system. Offensive to the ears and every other sense. Shameful.
June 11, 2022 at 01:40 PM
Watched the first third of Fire Walk With Me last night. That film is genuinely frightening and unnerving.
June 09, 2022 at 08:01 AM
Travel day yesterday. Made decent time in the end. Oklahoma was almost entirely rain, much very heavy. Considered stopping under a bridge. Trying to break through here and get at what's on my mind. There is a wall in my stomach and in my brain that prevents me from acting and moving in a direction. We split the driving evenly. I'm also excited for the Taptic typing feedback in iOS 16. Also I'm excited for iCloud shared family photos. Who will share mine?
Finished Drive My Car the other night. Great ones movie. The trajectory of the last third was inevitable yet surprising in its particularity.
We had to bring Sherman along. His usual caretaker refused this time because he terrorized her cats last time. Then again she could have moved the litter box.
May 28, 2022 at 09:02 PM
Kindred to being an American
-Eddie V
May 28, 2022 at 09:01 PM
The ability of a song to clarify and simplify
May 27, 2022 at 09:15 PM
First reaction to Wilco cruel country: the artwork is ... like my grandma's table doily. But my grandma didn't have a table doily.
May 22, 2022 at 08:26 PM
Killing instagram from my open apps is like breathing.
May 18, 2022 at 09:15 AM
Finally - finally getting around to dropping of M's returns. Foundation inspection. Going over full inspection report again. Costco trip. Which Costco will be closest now? Analyzing all my latest tweets. Soccer lunch at the newly opened McD's play place. Which is just ... WHUFF.
May 05, 2022 at 11:24 AM
Checking out DVDs from the library is much more interesting and exciting to all the kids in my family except for the 13 y/o. The little ritual of inserting the DVD. The annoying ads and menu navigation - it's all gravy to them - interesting and novel - even if the exact same show is available on streaming whatever.
April 28, 2022 at 02:25 PM
I just told F “I’m thinking about taking you and lw to Costco to get hot dogs for dinner” - and his immediate response was “I want to go there TO GET SAMPLES. I think about going there TO GET SAMPLES every day.”
April 08, 2022 at 09:09 PM
My brain — consumed by chatter, clatter, and whatever is the matter — can't know how to start anything but the next episode.
April 06, 2022 at 08:13 AM
Here is a thing that just happened: my 2 y/o engaged the Echo to "play," as he often does. It chose to play "Music by The Replacements." Then I said, "This song hits daddy right in heart of all my feels." Then everyone wanted to turn the song off immediately.
April 05, 2022 at 10:28 AM
I wish that more people just ordered black coffee at every coffee shop. Save everyone lots of time.
March 01, 2022 at 04:05 PM
Maybe most specifically the tech talk and Apple nerd sphere of shows. I appreciate that community and I'm not going to abandon it. But it's dawning on me how vapid and repetitive most of it is. Year after year the same discussions over and over.
March 01, 2022 at 04:03 PM
I can feel myself moving away from podcasts. Dare I say my dependence upon podcasts to get through the day. This has been an ongoing concern passed down from my window cleaning days, working outside and invisibly and alone.
February 28, 2022 at 11:02 AM
I don't know when I'll be able to move past knowing that many thousands of people carry on life as if they believe "a thing" (could be any number of things ... let my readers fill in the blank) - when in reality their motives are entirely cynical and selfish.
February 27, 2022 at 11:00 PM
I finished Leviathan Wakes today. Absolutely flew through it. I never noticed or cared the leaps of logic that Miller makes along the way that don't add up. Just a wild ride of a book.
February 24, 2022 at 05:12 PM
I'm sure a part of the reason I dug into Station Eleven so hard was because it took place in Chicago. I had a long held dream, even through high school, to live in Chicago. We took annual trips there growing up. Also Mackenzie Davis was in one of my all time favorite shows, Halt & Catch Fire. Which I might be ready for a rewatch of.
February 23, 2022 at 04:09 PM
I've been preoccupied with a section of twitter that is focused on gender, specifically issues of masculinity, and gender roles. I can't stop looking at it and I don't know why. I want to say that the men inhabiting these spaces are attention seeking and wrong in what they're doing, and that the way they're proclaiming some partial truths about Jesus and Christianity are harming the church.
But I don't know how to articulate this. My brain can't coalesce around a central idea to pick at. I need to find a way to slow it down and pick it apart to tease something out. It all seems to go along with a right wing political attitude that brings with it all of the weirdness you'd expect. And it's also very agrarian and rural and backward looking. It feels like a retreat to more a more black and white era.
February 21, 2022 at 01:39 PM
Walking Sherman. I saw two houses next to each other both running their AC. Come on people.
February 17, 2022 at 01:06 PM
Of course the tailor for Tarrey Town has to be from the lady village. What Gordon could possibly mend clothes, with those giant hands.
February 16, 2022 at 03:47 PM
I want you to be amazed by me - but there's nothing amazing to see or hear or feel. It's a cluttered kitchen counter of a man.
February 02, 2022 at 09:47 AM
Grocery store feels apocalyptic this morning. People remember the great blackout and freeze of 2021.
February 01, 2022 at 12:04 PM
When all else fails, tweet about it.
January 29, 2022 at 12:01 AM
Ringo sleeping during THE Long and winding road
January 28, 2022 at 10:35 PM
S11: the way the past is so real to us. The way we are present in the before and the now and the future all at once. And not present also. Withholding our presence to protect our fragile selves.
January 28, 2022 at 10:26 PM
s11: When spring comes We're going to run out of food. Then whoever's left is going to want to fight each other. We have to get out of here. This can't last.
January 28, 2022 at 11:18 AM
Cleaning the house. This is what websites are for.
January 27, 2022 at 09:43 PM
Watching Station Eleven. Loving everything about this show, right down to the fonts in the titles. The way it depicts the world spinning right off its axis while you try to make your morning toast or something banal like that.
January 27, 2022 at 09:38 PM
Watching Station Eleven. Loving everything about this show, right down to the fonts in the titles. The way it depicts the world spinning right off its axis while you try to make your morning toast or something banal like that.
January 22, 2022 at 10:12 PM
Watching The Power of the Dog instead of football.
January 19, 2022 at 07:34 AM
Domination today Wordle 214 2/6 🟨🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
January 18, 2022 at 07:22 AM
How can Americans not look into their own hearts and immediately realize that racism in this country remains an ongoing concern? How can anyone claim to have clean hands?
January 09, 2022 at 11:12 AM
As a tennis fan, I have never much liked N Djok - and his antics in recent years have only decreased his stature in my eyes. Something about his vengeful and emotional and swashbuckling style has always bugged me. But seriously, shame on him for his behavior. His legacy is permanently tarnished.
January 09, 2022 at 09:16 AM
Feeling like I have a cold this morning. Or is it Covid? I don't think it's COVID-19, caused by the sars-cov2 virus. It's the common cold, caused by the sars-cov-v0.2 virus. Makes you feel a bit run down, then you bounce back like the champion that you are.
January 07, 2022 at 07:39 PM
I like using heavy gauge guitar strings to discourage my fingers from doing silly things like bending notes.
January 01, 2022 at 12:31 AM
Watched Don't Look Up for New Year's Eve. The movie had a bitter heart at its core, which I didn't appreciate. Even the shared meal around the table at the end felt in vain. While only the horrible ones live on at all. And humanity is doomed to repeat itself endlessly.