Notes from the Basement

Well, another month has all but slipped away. Make that: another year. My year, that is—the reckoning that began when I stuck my head out of my mother’s belly and thought: “Crap, it’s bright out here!” Moments later, a new thought: “Crap, it’s cold, too!”
Actually, the story goes that I had to be dragged out. [...]

Tags: birthday, Cleveland, medicine, photography, psychology

It’s true: I try to be concise. Sometimes this has worked out well. For instance, a favorite professor once wrote on a paper of mine: “Short, sweet, to the point.” On the other hand, my current boss continually presses me to flesh out what he calls my “orphic utterances.”
Well, here’s what Marianne Moore had to [...]

Tags: literature, psychology

Leave aside the Bush administration’s abuses that have captured our attention recently. It turns out anyone can get ahold of your phone records—and at a pretty affordable price, too. (Kos has more here).

Tags: politics, privacy, U.S.

Here’s a sig that resonates:
In the future, everyone will have a blog, and none of them will be read. My unread blog will be Symmachus.
(Found it over at Daily Kos—a phenomenally widely read blog.)

Tags: blogging