Year: 2020
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Leaps of Faith
Two different perspectives on taking a leap. You never know what’s on the other side, sometimes you just gotta go for it. 12-year-old Sky Brown takes on Tony Hawk’s “mega ramp.”
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The week that was
The number of Covid-19 cases in the UK was vastly undercounted due to a file size limitation in Microsoft Excel. A Canadian seed company’s advertisements were banned by the Facebook ad quality algorithm because its photo of Walla Walla onions were deemed overtly sexual. Venice’s annual acque alte was rebuffed for the first time in…
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NEJM Fires Trump
The venerable and respected New England Journal of Medicine broke with tradition and published a political editorial lambasting the current administration’s response to Covid-19. While they did not call out Trump & Pence by name, they basically called them a threat to the health and society of all Americans and encouraged their readers to vote…
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The week that was
Finland started screening incoming travelers for Covid-19 at Helsinki Airport with specially trained dogs that can sniff it out. A Florida man called 911 when he heard his neighbors yelling “Shoot! Shoot!” The police arrived to find an animated trio of mates watching their Tampa Bay Lightnings in hot pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Three…
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The week that was
Ann Arbor, Michigan became the latest US city (after Denver, Oakland, and Santa Cruz) to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. UC Berkeley announced the opening of the Center for the Science of Psychedelics. A California man was sentenced to six years in prison for sending almost two pounds of meth inside a piñata. You can now buy…
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The week that was
no filter photo by @jachristian A farmer just 10 miles outside of Kenosha, Wisconsin (yes, that Kenosha) decided enough already with 2020 and turned his entire crop over to sunflowers. My childhood nightmare just became product reality. In Australia’s Queensland, COVID-19 restrictions put the kibosh on dancing at weddings but, strangely, allowed for “group sex…
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The week that was
Hundreds of people assembled at a German church to hear an organ change chords for the first time in nearly seven years. The church is 19 years into performing John Cage’s Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible) and is due to finish the piece in the year 2640. Looking to differentiate itself from other sushi outfits,…
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On Leaving California
My Medium post announcing a big change
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Modern Luddite’s Prayer
I found an old notebook of scribblings from a two week vacation taken in Paris around 2010. We were wonderfully disconnected from the internet and spent each morning at a museum or gallery and each afternoon on extended walks thru selected neighborhoods. As you can see, I took a grim view of technology when viewed…