June 5, 2017
Touchscreen Headstone: Speculations on the Digital Afterlife
“Eterni.me wants to rely on the real substance of twenty-first-century life: online activity. There are other companies that offer related services: Legacy Locker and Entrustnet allow users to nominate an […]
January 31, 2016
Charleston Heavy
I’ve loved Charleston for awhile now. The first time I saw the city’s name was on a baseball cap my dad brought back from Air Force Reserve training, one of […]
January 22, 2016
The War to Preserve Everything
I’m interested in all the different ways we use the word, the concept, the illusion of preservation, from food to corpses, from digital data to taxidermy, from photographs to endangered […]
September 18, 2015
Not-Quite Goodbye (Aseret Yemei Teshuva)
I mean, you must take living so seriously that even […]
February 11, 2014
The Real Movie Star Is Really Dead
I’ve been meaning to finish the story I started (see here and here) regarding my movie stardom. But between episodes two and three the real actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman died […]
February 23, 2012
Matchup #1: O Rare Ben Jonson vs. A Little-Known 15th Century Welsh Poet
In any discussion of elegies for a lost child, Ben Jonson’s frequently comes up. You may know the one I’m talking about: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, […]
November 2, 2010
Breathless
All my life I’ve loved anticipation. Kafka, writing as a rodent in his last story, “The Burrow”: ““All my surroundings seem filled with agitation, seem to be looking at me, […]
April 30, 2010
Experience
G and I went for pho then walked through Judkins Park, the post-war craftsman neighborhood facing Mount Rainier that’s now Seattle’s Vietnamese and Ethiopian heart– travel agents, realtors; smell of […]