July 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Parallel parking as symbolic action in the big city.
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Parallel parking as symbolic action in the big city.
Most op-eds, social media posts, editorials, blog posts, tv/radio talk spots, and podcasts skip this part below.
The powerful love when that happens.
The powerful love when that happens.
April 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Most op-eds, social media posts, editorials, blog posts, tv/radio talk spots, and podcasts skip this part below.
The powerful love when that happens.
The powerful love when that happens.
Coloring sheets and crayons free for customer/citizens at the counter of the neighborhood hamburger stand.
April 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Coloring sheets and crayons free for customer/citizens at the counter of the neighborhood hamburger stand.
Liminal is a 55-minute documentary about human uses and impact on the landscape of one midwestern state, Indiana. Stunning and revealing drone photography, compelling musical score, and plenty to think and talk about. Streaming on Prime now.
March 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Liminal is a 55-minute documentary about human uses and impact on the landscape of one midwestern state, Indiana. Stunning and revealing drone photography, compelling musical score, and plenty to think and talk about. Streaming on Prime now.
Heading to the print shop. On card stock, 11" x 17" posters are inexpensive, I hear. Discount for quantity purchases.
February 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Heading to the print shop. On card stock, 11" x 17" posters are inexpensive, I hear. Discount for quantity purchases.
Over on Insta, @DanSavage reviews an activism strategy from the past.
February 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Over on Insta, @DanSavage reviews an activism strategy from the past.
A very short story by Osama Alomar.
February 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A very short story by Osama Alomar.
If Congress’s duty to direct spending is being taken away by the new regime in Washington, then we are no longer in the “No taxation without representation” country that some people died to establish in the, what decade?, oh yes, the 1770s.
February 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If Congress’s duty to direct spending is being taken away by the new regime in Washington, then we are no longer in the “No taxation without representation” country that some people died to establish in the, what decade?, oh yes, the 1770s.
"Sheer political noise" -- how @GregTSargent describes the sounds a political group makes getting serious about an existential threat.
We're not seriously involved in activism or politics if we don't know how to create sheer political noise.
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
We're not seriously involved in activism or politics if we don't know how to create sheer political noise.
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
January 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Sheer political noise" -- how @GregTSargent describes the sounds a political group makes getting serious about an existential threat.
We're not seriously involved in activism or politics if we don't know how to create sheer political noise.
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
We're not seriously involved in activism or politics if we don't know how to create sheer political noise.
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
A one-sentence theory about the weakness of our political system.
akakensmith.com/2017/06/20/t...
akakensmith.com/2017/06/20/t...
December 2, 2024 at 1:06 PM
A one-sentence theory about the weakness of our political system.
akakensmith.com/2017/06/20/t...
akakensmith.com/2017/06/20/t...
"It's like . . . the promise of a decentralised web from the 90’s rising Phoenix-like from the ashes."
November 21, 2024 at 3:46 PM
"It's like . . . the promise of a decentralised web from the 90’s rising Phoenix-like from the ashes."
Waiting with the dog on the sidewalk while C. went into a nearby shop for takeout. Chicago.
November 14, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Waiting with the dog on the sidewalk while C. went into a nearby shop for takeout. Chicago.
@NPR is reporting the fascist takeover as if it were the Super Bowl.
February 21, 2024 at 1:41 PM
@NPR is reporting the fascist takeover as if it were the Super Bowl.
A dry and troubled land.
August 26, 2023 at 3:14 PM
A dry and troubled land.
Padlocks clicked into the railings of famous and out-of-the-way bridges all around the world remind us of two things.
People want to speak up about things that matter to them and people want to commit to the best things in their lives.
People want to speak up about things that matter to them and people want to commit to the best things in their lives.
August 1, 2023 at 9:43 PM
Padlocks clicked into the railings of famous and out-of-the-way bridges all around the world remind us of two things.
People want to speak up about things that matter to them and people want to commit to the best things in their lives.
People want to speak up about things that matter to them and people want to commit to the best things in their lives.
Early in Station Eleven, a novel about a dystopian future set in Michigan and Indiana, people encounter an inventor in Traverse City who is trying to restore a small electrical system so he can continue his quest to find the lost wonder of the past world called the Internet.
August 1, 2023 at 8:52 PM
Early in Station Eleven, a novel about a dystopian future set in Michigan and Indiana, people encounter an inventor in Traverse City who is trying to restore a small electrical system so he can continue his quest to find the lost wonder of the past world called the Internet.