The Nature of the Beasts.
“They treat our home like an open-world level and they treat our neighbors like NPCs and loot boxes.”
Unwritten Responses.
Something I’m writing in place of all the things I’m choosing not to write.
Renovations and Predictable Patterns.
Speculative, but only just.
Sliding Scales.
“I don’t know how many other ways this regime has to show you who they are.”
From Big Shoulder to Big Shoulder.
“It is a patchwork of neighborhoods and the neighborhoods are patchworks of people, and every one of those people are valuable and important.”
And I alone escaped to tell thee.
This is Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, the three year-old boy who is the only survivor of yesterday’s plane crash in the Sudan that killed 116 people. He suffered burns and lost … Continue reading
We wuz had.
Mark Bowden, the author of Black Hawk Down, Killing Pablo, and Finders Keepers, is one of the finest journalists I have ever read. [1] He is one of a dying … Continue reading
Sharks in the pool.
Random thoughts for Wednesday: – Nothing makes you appreciate the jobs of others quite like having to do them yourself for a few days. My managing editor has been out … Continue reading
“I understand now. It is not I who am crazy. It is I who am MAD!”
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