Aug 12
Air Quality Index I remember when the term IED covered the news, a shiny new term from Bush’s war in Iraq. After a while it was like it had always been part of our vocabulary. The Canadian wildfires put a focus on AQI, the particulates making up pollution levels, health risks, color codes green through …
Jun 03
The Restaurant “The menu’s got a faux-proletarian vibe,” my friend Luke described the restaurant ahead. So often ironic, his jokes not always obvious, I wasn’t sure what he was getting at, and I googled the term on my cellphone. “Common choices include salmon, tuna, sardines and trout,” the text read. “Chicken and turkey, which are …
Apr 20
Dreiecksverhältnis German for “Love triangle” It sounded so much cooler in German, so much more complicated. And the geometry? Way more than three-sided. First of all there was Linda’s cat, Gladstone, who way preferred me to Andrew, even if Linda had known Andrew longer than she knew me. Gladstone liked me better than Linda, too. …
Jan 07
Like a Virgin Was it Groucho Marx who said he knew Doris Day before she was a virgin? I was way too young to see her in her 1954 appearance on What’s My Line? Our family didn’t even own a TV then, but having just turned two a couple of weeks earlier, I’d never have …
Oct 29
Meat Is Murder On a random radio station, driving through another state, the talkshow host throws out a spurious statistic, citing the high percentage of “young people” (she doesn’t give an age range) who believe that bacon is a vegetable. This may be a commentary on the stupidity of “young people.” (“They’re just so fuckin’ …
