A White Bear wrote a few months ago about getting into a bizarre conversation with a random guy at the Russian Baths about why guys are into “gear.” AWB recounts discussing this question with me at the baths, where I “was helpfully explaining something about a masculine desire for control and mastery, possibly out of [...]
On the continued theme of wholesome fun from the past, I’m postponing murderous fun to focus on the power of magnetism, before I have to pack these games away for several weeks.
Long ago, there were people who could have come up with a Nintendo Wii or a Sony X Box, if only the technology existed. [...]
What we’re watching, reading/looking at, watching, and, uh, rejecting:
The American Experience, “Walt Whitman” (PBS)
Last Thursday night we serendipitously stumbled upon the broadcast of The American Experience episode on Walt Whitman. One commentator noted that “it was as if Whitman had read a want ad’s notice for ‘National Poet’ and signed up.”
For me, the highlight [...]
The first toy I can remember wanting really badly is, of course, one that I never got. This was back in the late ’70s, when the original Battlestar Galactica was my favorite show, Star Wars my favorite movie, and fighting in space with guns was by far the greatest joy imaginable. And so one evening [...]
Every once in a while I think — usually while calling 5 minutes before I get home to say I’m 5 minutes away from home — how odd it is that in the last century I didn’t own a cell phone.
Aside from email, which I didn’t have until the fall of 1994, it’s probably the [...]