Johnathan Franzen on yak.
Golden Strand
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
A letter to my son Kai, as part of a culmination project for the Mountain School.
Kai,
There is never really enough time to say everything, only moments and fragments in the soft haze of memory that allow us to make sense of it all. I write this letter at a time in my life where you [...]
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment…
Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Question: I need 100 ways to say “I love you” to my girlfriend. We made a bet last night that I couldn’t come up with 100 and I can’t lose! Help me pa-pa-pa-pa-please non-expert. —Rod
Answer: Here’s the way to say “I love you”: rarely. To say it a hundred ways is to cheapen a pure [...]
What is twitter good for?
Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
A question I ask myself time and again. You can add Facebook to that as well.
Love Is An Asymptotic Line
Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
“3QuarksDaily has a mashup moment with Poetry Daily”:http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/07/among-the-inert.html
Being inert love rarely bonds, requiring the meeting of two specific individuals, their union instigated by a certain kind of conversation and formalized, typically in the sterility of a bedroom, though there are no shortage of alternate venues.
It’s Not Freedom
Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
“Another thought provoking digby post”:http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-not-freedom-by-digby-rick-perlstein.html:
By methodically undermining the public’s will and ability to underwrite the public good, systematically accelerating economic inequality, and making turning oneself into a commodity - “selling out” - the only possible route for young people who wish a reasonably secure middle class existence, conservatives killed liberty.
What it’s like at Glastonbury
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Spot on on the conditions. But my reaction was the complete opposite.
American Poetry in the new century
Thursday, September 21st, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Relevance, an issue near and dear to my heart.
Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Excellent forest for the trees essay on the American state of fear.
Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
Friday, June 9th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Cf. the O’Reilly Web 2.0 kerfuffle.
Following Our Bliss
Saturday, July 9th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
“Why do you work so hard?”:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/07/08/notes070805.DTL&nl=fix Or how difficult it is to follow our bliss.
There remains this enormous and wicked sociocultural myth. It is this: Hard work is all there is.
Call it “the cafe question.” Any given weekday you can stroll by any given coffee shop in the city and see dozens of people milling [...]
Greetings from the Unitarian Jihad
Thursday, April 14th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
Too precious and WTF not to post.
Always Remembering
Friday, March 4th, 2005 at 10:33 pm
An incredibly poignant “story”:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/4/151715/5913 about survivors of the Holocaust, serendipity and their children and grandchildren who vow to never forget. Amazing and beautiful.
The Relationship’s The Thing
Sunday, November 28th, 2004 at 10:50 am
The Relationship Revolution, an essay written in 2001, loses none of its insight 3 years later.
bq(blockquote).. In truth, we are not at the beginning, middle or end of an Information Age. Those images, those metaphors, conceal rather than reveal what’s really going on here. While it is true that digital technologies have completely transformed [...]
The case for a smart, agile and decent Pax Americana
Thursday, October 21st, 2004 at 1:56 pm
David Brin makes the case for Pax Americana sans the jingoistic triumphalism.