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a different kind of Throwback Thursday
I was sitting in a bar in Vermont on the night before we were scheduled to run the 2014 Vermont Tough Mudder and at some point someone put on Janet Jackson's "That's The Way Love Goes." And I am sure that I've heard it at some point in the last 20 years since the album, janet., came out, but for that moment, it felt like the reappearance of an old ( Read more... ) -
the limits of empathy
I am not usually one to just randomly turn on the TV and watch whatever's on, but I recently reorganized my living room, the effort for which involved disassembling and re-assembling the stereo, then testing everything to make sure that I had properly reconnected the cable and wasn't redirecting my center channel into my subwoofer. That was how I ( Read more... ) -
squires
Sunday morning, in the parking lot campground, amidst the dewy morning light, Willow and I were in the car together swapping stories of travels abroad as I waited for my new lead to show up. For variety's sake, the organizers reshuffled our pool, so the Hobbit was going with someone else ( Read more... ) -
the hum drum life
"Hey! I know you!" was the way that Greg introduced himself when he pinged me to ask for a ride to the AMC course. We'd known of each other the way one does in a scene. Faces that show up at enough events in common. Friends who include us in the same conversation but don't always introduce us to each other. Voices that appear on shared comment ( Read more... ) -
the very embodiment of Type II Fun
There is a piece of advice in this rock climbing textbook that I've been reading that, when stressing the importance of building redundancy into any apparatus that you'll use for climbing, says:
"Always keep more than one point of failure between you and the reaper. This way you have to screw up twice in order to kill yourself."
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Dirty Dozen deleted scenes: a reunion and inspiration
December 2012
I was in Long Beach for the first time. After three weekends of volunteering on Staten Island I switched to this project, because I wanted a change of scene, and also because I knew that brigid's parents lived on Long Island, and while All Hands wasn't running projects in her town, I still wanted to do something for that area. couplingchaos and mashuta had ( Read more... ) -
complex questions with not so simple answers
This morning, over coffee, I was reading Metafilter and was reading this thread about a short race/feminism/identity web comic essay called What Would Yellow Ranger Do?. It's this great piece talking about being a minority and having to put up with the surprisingly complicated nature of being asked "where are you from ( Read more... )
