Tag: New York

• Observations from initial cannabis experiments (September 7, 2024)

  A year after a friend introduced me to cannabis edibles, I procured some for myself, and tried them a few times in varying circumstances. This is what happened.

• Three months with the Yale Assure deadbolt (May 7, 2023)

  A great lock, at least if you're a thrall to Apple stuff. (I am a thrall to Apple stuff.)

• Stuff I did (and stopped doing) in 2021 (January 3, 2022)

  My 2021 was less about accomplishment than revision. Most of it was good, and none of it was easy.

• Pleasant thoughts about Spider-Man (January 15, 2021)

  I bought some groceries, and I thought about Spider-Man.

• Two New York diary entries (December 27, 2020)

  Brief encounters with Aspects of the City.

• “Soft green hills straddling the convergence of creeks” (August 16, 2020)

  I love this wonderful NYT feature about Freshkills park on Staten Island, written by Robert Sullivan and beautifully illustrated with Jade Doskow’s photogrpahs.

• Annihilation, an excellent but overlong music video (June 28, 2020)

  I enjoyed this music-video adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's horror trilogy, though it makes the mistake of stretching itself across a feature film's running length.

• Narrascope! and an IndieWeb meetup, both this month (May 12, 2020)

  This month holds two free online events I’m involved with: a full-sized, week-long conference about narrative games, and a short and humble meetup about the independent web.

• Masks are clothes now, and we should all wear them (April 12, 2020)

  Despite offering minimal protection, masks' role as a unifying social signal has made them a requisite article of clothing during the pandemic.

• Dispatch from locked-down New York, March 2020 (March 28, 2020)

  Pausing to acknowledge and describe my arguably precarious situation before I go off ranting about the internet again.

• I subscribed to The New York Times’s weekend print edition (December 7, 2019)

  A chance encounter with my new home city's sunday paper has me reconsider the way that I approach the news in general, and this newspaper specifically.

• Thank you, Boston, and everyone (November 28, 2019)

  A thank-you note to all my New England friends who have made possible all the joy I have felt over the last 20 years.

• I read Going into Town (November 4, 2019)

  I took both delight and great comfort from Roz Chast's newcomer-oriented guide to New York City.

• My 9/11 memories (September 11, 2019)

  Bits and pieces of a confused day.