Heart-rending story in the New York Times, The Life and Death of Therapist Bob Bergeron. … but perhaps rending not the way you think. Depending on whether, of course, you are a gay man. I’m not, but the beauty-fade? The loss of looks, beyond one’s control? Like, life? Getting sick? Old? The Creeping Decrepits, my son calls them. He, however, is only eighteen years younger than I, so he’ll get his. (He’s a Good Boy.) (Also a senior geo-tech engineer, so I probably won’t be sending him this post.) Read the rest of this entry »
Men. Women. Just Saying.
April 29th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
North Korea: Failure to Launch
April 15th, 2012 § 3 comments § permalink
I never watch the news, but you know what I learned on the news? The fucking humanitarian aid, food and supplies, North Korea receives? The North Korean people are told that these are tributes. To their Leader. Then, if they’re lucky, I guess they get to eat. Read the rest of this entry »
Fuck Me, I Think I’m Elder
January 30th, 2012 § 8 comments § permalink
Is this like something you have to be? Or automatically become?
And why are there these special, all-cringeworthy words for getting older?
Why aren’t I the same person, in somewhat different form? Read the rest of this entry »
You Don’t Know What Is Happening Here, Do You, Ms. Katehi?
November 20th, 2011 § 9 comments § permalink
Verrry interesting. The slow tap tap of her heels … in all that silence. Just devastating.
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Letting Go Of Steve
October 10th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
Jobs had been teaching us to say goodbye to all that for decades — we just didn’t know it.
… in these final years, when the auditorium lights in would go down and the crowd would go wild for Jobs, who increasingly greeted his followers and touted the latest neat, new thing even as he wore the look of a person who was not going into that future with us.
He would be getting off here; we were to proceed without him … Let it go and look ahead was the message all along.
Hank Stueval in the Washington Post
Okay, I’m going to cry some more. Read the rest of this entry »
What To Do About Larry
October 4th, 2011 § Comments Off § permalink
Should Google Tweak the News? asks the New York Times.
Count me Horrified. Can the Times retract, even, the question?
”Should Google play an editorial role in presenting readers with news?” Read the rest of this entry »
The Shock of the New
September 7th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
On Richard Brody’s New Yorker Blog, the DVD of the Week is that fave, that treasure, Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Read the rest of this entry »
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
August 28th, 2011 § Comments Off § permalink
What is important to understand is that these same messages about how awful the latest version of Mac OS X is appear each and every time there’s a new upgrade. Thomas Reed, Apple Discussions
An Apple user since 1992, and OS X since Jaguar—I strongly disagree. Read the rest of this entry »
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