Dubious Quality

Leading off this week, an absolutely phenomenal piece of writing:  David Sedaris on the death of his father: ‘I don’t think the coffin could...

Pictures of Eli 20.10s trip to Paris.  I'm leading off with my favorites: the Mona Lisa, followed by the view facing people who are faci...

I told Eli 20.10 he could help me find one item of adult clothing. I mentioned this before, and that we failed, but I forgot this snippet (t...

One of the things that attracted me to Haruki Murakami (and has heavily influenced my own writing) is how he puts magical realism into his w...

It's suddenly spring here, like drinking from a firehose, because cold and gray turns green overnight. everything is a flower. 

"Replacement theory" is a foundational belief of white supremacists. Full stop.  If you amplify vile, reprehensible beliefs, some ...

Leading off this week, would you like to hear a black hole?  Data Sonification: Black Hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster (X-ra...

A reader from Finland (who's been around for a long, long time) sent this to me in response to yesterday's post. It's definitely...

This is from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary. It's the thesaurus entry for "sound." sound (verb,1) 1   to continue or ...

Eli 20.10 was in Paris on Mother's Day.  He called me from the airport and we talked about many things. We had a gentle laugh about how ...

Here's the good story.  On my way back from England, I was at Heathrow and found some benches to sit on before my flight. The benches we...

Have a great weekend, everybody! Leading off this week, a heartbreaking and infuriating piece of history:  50 years on, the lessons of the T...

Eli 20.10 said Jordan was the favorite place he visited of all the countries he went to on break.  They started out in Amman, which has four...

I've written many times that athletes rarely get closure.  Eli 20.10, though, did.  After visiting nine countries in six weeks during te...