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Friday September 22, 2023Lucky enough to have seen Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service last night at the Mann. My son’s first concert (he’s a huge Postal Service fan). I think we both made a bunch of core memories; I know I did.
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Sunday August 27, 2023Sunny Day Real Estate last night in Baltimore.
Still can’t believe how tight these guys sound and how well Jeremy’s voice holds up.
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Thursday August 10, 2023Three candidates have announced their 2024 candidacy for Delaware’s lone U.S. House seat. How did they use branding to differentiate themselves in an already crowded field?
In the next installment of “The Politics of Design,” I critiqued all three for the Delaware Call.
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Saturday July 22, 2023Made the Roy Choi salsa verde tonight and, folks? It’s good.
Admittedly fudged the recipe a bit based on what was on hand but it’s a hell of a starting place.
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Tuesday July 18, 2023Allstate is still using “security questions I can probably find the answers to if you’ve filled out your Facebook profile even a little bit” in 2023. Woof.
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Wednesday July 12, 2023I’m in the Delaware Call today!
The Politics of Design will be a lighthearted series of critiques focusing on the branding of state and local politicians.
First up: the logo for Delaware gubernatorial hopeful Matt Meyer.
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Wednesday July 5, 2023Finished reading: Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride 📚
I absolutely tore through this book. Partially out of personal interest in McBride’s story, as she is my state senator and has a really good change to be the first out transgender member of the US House of Representatives, but mostly because she’s an engaging storyteller with an incredible story to tell.
This is pretty clearly a political memoir, one written to give background as the candidate ascends in the public sphere. McBride is pretty transparent about her ambitions, but manages to be ambitious in a way that never feels transactional to me. She deftly is able to zoom out from a personal story to illustrate a policy point or value statement in a way that makes the connections obvious, and offers some insight into how she will govern that have since been demonstrated in her tenure in the state senate.
Her “why” is incredibly clear, and I am hopeful she will be able to bring an undiluted version of it back to Washington.
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Saturday July 1, 2023I will be calling balls and strikes this afternoon
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Monday April 24, 2023The 80% off all ebooks sale at Verso Books ends this Wednesday. (Looks like most of their paper books are also 20-30% off, too.)
You know your boy copped:
- Revolutionary Mathematics – Justin Joque
- Hegemony Now – Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams
- Prisoners of the American Dream – Mike Davis
- If They Come in the Morning – Angela Y. Davis
- Radical Technologies – Adam Greenfield
- Keystroke Capitalism – Aaron Sahr
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Wednesday April 12, 2023State legislators have attempted to ban CRT in every state in the nation, except Delaware.
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Tuesday April 11, 2023DNF: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚
Huge fan of the author’s previous work, but I simply could not find an entry point. Too many characters, and the emotional stakes were too abstract. I made it about 100 pages in.
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Tuesday April 4, 2023Just dropped the needle on this monster for the first time in a long time and let me tell you, it still absolutely owns.
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Monday April 3, 2023Definitely not going to take this personally.
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Thursday March 30, 2023If you’re suddenly in the market for a less fashy RSS reader, I can wholeheartedly recommend NetNewsWire.
(I’m also experimenting with Readwise Reader, which I’ll have more to say about soon, but its RSS features are currently underwhelming.)
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Saturday February 25, 2023I could stare at this photo for hours.
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Thursday February 16, 2023Your local paper probably deserves your subscription money more than the New York Times ever did.
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Wednesday February 15, 2023Because of the way campaign finance works (or doesn’t work) in America, it’s often much easier to understand a candidate’s priorities by understanding their donors rather than listening to their stump speech.
This rundown is… illuminating.
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Monday February 13, 2023Finished reading: The Idiot by Elif Batuman 📚
One morning, on my way to a lecture on Balzac, it came to me with great clarity that there was no way that that guy, the professor, was going to tell me anything useful. No doubt he knew many useful things, but he wasn’t going to say them; rather, he was going to tell us again that Balzac’s Paris was extremely comprehensive.
I am shocked at how well Batuman captures the overwhelming banality of one’s first year away at college. Every experience is simultaneously novel, intense and boring.
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Thursday January 12, 2023Finished reading: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz 📚
Still cooks.
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Saturday January 7, 2023Finished re-reading: The Perfect Pass by S. C. Gwynne 📚
Inspired to pick it back up after the untimely death of Mike Leach late last year.
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Friday January 6, 2023Finished reading: This Wheel’s on Fire by Levon Helm 📚
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Wednesday January 4, 2023It was a bit disappointing to learn that a “plant-based sports bar” had taken over and destroyed half of the Elliott Smith wall, but I wasn’t gonna let that prevent me from a photo op.
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Wednesday December 21, 2022This picture was taken at the finish line of the 2012 Beaver Stadium Run, seconds after Franco Harris (right) had admonished me to “Finish strong, son!” The Penn State community lost a great ambassador today.
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Friday December 16, 2022Perhaps one of the most important pages on all of Wikipedia: List of Sauces.
