Murakami’s Norwegian Wood: Death, Winter, and Love
by Hazel Anna Rogers I first read Haruki Murakami’s ‘Norwegian Wood’ when I was 17, in my first relationship. As it happened, it was my first foray into Japanese literature, […]
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Tips For Better Conversations From Celeste Headlee
by Carl Kruse Apologies for the click-baity title though fortunately no click bait here only notes from a Celeste Headlee TED talk in Savannah, Georgia on how to have better […]
On Walking or Psychogeography
by Fraser Hibbitt I started walking because there was nothing else to do. Walking, I had found, was one way to disperse those sobering complaints of everyday tasks, leaving blind, […]
Music, Memory and the Cloud
by Hazel Anna Rogers My father will often, upon hearing a song from his youth, be able to conjure up when exactly in his life he first heard the song […]
Happy Birthday Bitcoin
by Carl Kruse Twelve years ago some guy (or group of people, nobody really knows) called Satoshi Nakamoto, published an 8-page white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” […]
How To Name Your Band
by Carl Kruse So you have put together a band but no idea what to call it. You also are uncertain what to name your new album. Nor are you […]
Poems by Otho Campbell
Here are some poems from my friend Otho Campbell. As he did not title them, I follow the way Emily Dickinson poems are labelled, which is to say by the […]
Divine Twitter Admin Accounts
By Carl Kruse Several Twitter admin accounts were recently compromised allowing a hacker to modify other accounts (see here), bringing even Jeffery Epstein’s Twitter account alive again to say, “I […]
Of Statues and Monuments
By Carl Kruse A focal point of the city of Richmond, Virginia is a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Lee was by all accounts a brave, intelligent man, […]
Buy Bitcoin
By Carl Kruse A few days ago my acquaintances Max and Jonathan asked me about possible stocks to buy. “Look at all the good deals!” they exclaimed. So many good […]
Laethanta na Riabhaiche – The Borrowed Days
During these first days of April snow falls outside making it easier to stay inside in the time of coronavirus. Another April some time ago, while perusing Richard MacFarlane’s Twitter […]
Happy Anniversary JRR and Edith Tolkien
By Carl Kruse Happy anniversary J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, married on this day in 1916. Tolkien met Edith as a teenager and supposedly became so smitten with her he neglected […]
Morse Code Revisited: Communing With Titanic’s Distress Signal
by Carl Kruse Years ago I studied Morse Code as a prerequisite to becoming a Ham radio operator and while never becoming a Ham I abosrbed Morse Code and wondered […]
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
by Carl Kruse Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” is one of 8-10 books that peer at me from my desk, and if inanimate books emit energy I feel that of the Meditations […]
Visit to Bavaria Filmstadt and Das Boot
By Carl Kruse Supposedly it’s difficult to make anti-war films because movies tend to make war look exciting. That’s probably true but not for Wolfang Petersen’s “DAS BOOT” (1981) one […]
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
By Carl Kruse The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago and with it the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Today only fragments remain after much of […]
Wings Over Tempelhof
A winged bicycle soars over the miniature golf course at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Just past the fence is housing for five-thousand asylum seekers recently arrived to Germany. […]
Pakenham Loves Trees, so does Kruse
When Thomas Pakenham first thought of making a book about his favorite trees near his home in England, friends poked fun at him, but the book he created, “Meetings With […]