Climate change is real. (A brief guide to the scientific consensus on climate change by Laurence Lewis) It’s the biggest thing that has ever happened in your lifetime. It will be happening for the rest of your lifetime. It is the ultimate test of human community, the moment when we learn whether evolution and culture

Leora and I enjoyed The Trip last night. This was a memorable scene.

I’ve been consolidating my many web presences that have developed over the years. In particular I want to raise the visibility of my current professional identity, as it appears on Google Plus and at my professional site (Applied Information Design LLC.) I love my Portland Ground photography project, a wonderful midli

Once you grasp that it is possible that the universe is infinite, meaning, no matter how far you travel in any direction you will continue to encounter new stars and planets, and once you grasp that some 14 billion years ago this infinitude of space, energy and matter was entirely concentrated in a single point

If it’s not humorous it just doesn’t seem that serious. Wow, I hope that’s humorous. Or is made funny by the self referentiallity of sentence two. On the other hand, if the previous secondary level of self referentiallity doesn’t help, then this tertiary level won’t save the thought. But seriou

Man walks into a doctor’s office for a $15 copay visit, routine follow-up, and walks out with an $85 bill because, hey, it’s the new year, so the Providence Choice health plan annual deductible started over on Jan. 1. In what rational world should delaying the date of service delivery from late December to Janua

Some of my ancestors lived their lives in Iowa. This is happily NSFW.

I think I like this rendering the best.

I nominate this for love story of the year, 2011: Xiao Xiao.

This is such a great review that I’m gonna throw it up here, for the record. I got some perspective on the spectacle two days later, when I saw Portland’s wonderful Your Rival play a killer set of boisterous pop-punk to six mostly ambivalent people in a Seattle bar on Sunday night. It’s a story

And a great remake by Alison Krause and Robert Plant.

A few pictures of mine appear in a new Portland Calendar for 2012, Dead Memories. The Mercury mentions it here.

Proud to announce a new web site I’ve created: The Art of Epilepsy (artofepilepsy.com). It’s for all those who have epilepsy or know someone who does, and want to think about the artistic and cultural representation of seizure disorders. If you can create a link somewhere that points to it, I’d be grateful

So far I have made this preliminary translation, which begs for correction by someone whose Hebrew skills are a little better than mine. Marseilles From within the white house You can see all of Marseilles Impossible to know if it’s smoke or clouds Or if the sun will come Two loves on the horizon He

Art Performance Given by Company Soldiers, Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) Korean Central News Agency.

This one deserves to be cranked.

Can we revive the front porch campaign? Could we imagine a no-cost or very low cost political campaign for local or national office? Is it really true that political offices can only be won with massive fund raising that obligates the candidate to moneyed interests? Could a candidate stand out by not traveling, not fund [..

Jonathan Turley (New York Times, link) is working hard to defend polygamy in America. Framing it as a freedom of association issue, he misses the much more compelling social justice argument. Boys Cast Out by Polygamists – New York Times (link) “Disobedience is usually the reason given for expulsion, but forme

After we saw what there was to see we went off to buy souvenirs, and my father waited by the car and smoked. He didn’t need a lot of things to remind him where he’d been. Why do you want so much stuff? he might have asked us. “Oh, Ed,” I can hear my mother saying, as if that took care [...]

The door swings open, you look in. It’s dark in there, most likely spiders: nothing you want. You feel scared. The door swings closed. The full moon shines, it’s full of delicious juice; you buy a purse, the dance is nice. The door opens And swings closed so quickly you don’t notice. The sun comes out, you have swift