NY Life
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...
PDX Life
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...
brainmeats
Religion and Tom Waits
I don’t talk about religion, or spirituality, often in public. I’ve done it once before here getting into family history and all but that’s it. In that post, as an aside really, I wrote this:...