Cities aren’t monoliths
We need to discuss cities in America for a minute, because a lot of people who don’t live in one have a few really weird misconceptions about them. I mostly want to deal with one specific one, though. Of...
The time my house stopped existing
So one time, FedEx decided my house didn’t exist. Now, I will preface this by saying this was a while ago, and I don’t hold FedEx as the worst carrier, or want to trash them, or anyone else. I’m...
Ten Years Ago Today
As of right now I have lived in Portland for an entire decade. I spent basically all of my first 38 years in NYC (with a few years in other places here and there) but ten years ago it was time for a change. I...
Ten Years Later – MonkeyBrain Comics
Ten years ago today, MonkeyBrain Comics launched. Maybe you’ve forgotten about it, never heard of it in the first place, or just didn’t realize the date. That’s all right. Ten years ago today, the thing that quite...
Ish
I wasn’t planning on posting this, must less right now when I have a bunch of stuff to get done right now and I’m all busy and argh and — anyway: Religion. Faith. All that jazz. Not something I...
One piece of clothing
I only have one piece of clothing I actually deeply and truly care about. I mean, I have lots of stuff I like that I wear, but it’s not the same. No this is something utterly different for me. In 1996 (maybe...
Pronouns
Last year I started wearing a very pretty pin on my con lanyards. It said “He/Him” and I wish I could remember the artist who did it, because it is pretty. I saw, I think it was a Google conference,...
Pavlov’s Idiot
Back in the dark ages of 2012/2013 the Pebble watch came out. I jumped on the idea quickly. I was, after all, the guy who had email on his phone back when that meant using a Sidekick and making sure it could load...
Do the work
So I got a tattoo today. It’s my 40th birthday, and so I decided to get myself something. Here it is, just after it was finished: Yup, it sits on my inside left arm, where I can see it constantly....
Get up. Water the mulch. Go inside. Work. Water the mulch.
Growing up in NY I never had a lawn or yard or anything like that. So when I moved to Portland and saw that the lawns at the house were basically only weeds, a few scraps of grass clinging on, I sighed. I wanted to...
Portland – polite garbage… wait…
After spending 38 years in NY (with tiny exceptions for a few years in Boston) I moved to Portland this past October. And already the changes have started. It’s… strange, but in no way unwelcome. The first...
This is how you get Pants.
Yesterday we had to go out, Laszlo and I, to do a bunch of errands. Along the way we ran across a Petsmart. So, hey, Watson needed a new cat tree thing to hang out on and in we went. At the door was a place...