Free Post On the Streets Forever ago I'm looking through my archive for photos for a project, which inevitably leads to distraction. When I walk by Dick's on Broadway, I always take a photo. It's obligatory. One
Free Post On the Streets 2020, the eternal dumpster fire I haven't wanted to write anything for a few days because everything's negative. If you've been here before, you've heard me mention that I'm not responding to this pandemic very
Free Post Audio Audio Frustrations I am ready to take a break from audio. Over the past couple of weeks I've tried to do a series of simple audio and site tests. Figured I'd combine them. Compare some mics and test the members/subscribers functionality in this site. Record.
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: What is evidence? There are still loads of good journalists, but they're stuck in the Death Star's trash compactor. I hope we find some capable droids to free them. Tucker Carlson had Dr. Li-Meng Yan on his show recently. I haven't got cable, so recently is as
Free Post On the Streets It all feels broken How's that for a feel-good title? I'm no longer confident in my ability (or anyone's ability) to assess our current circumstances. On most days, I feel like it's all going
Free Post On the Streets Looks pretty, feels ugly The West is on fire. I knew about the California fires, but I somehow ignored the fires raging through Oregon and, to a lesser extent, Washington. On a walk the
Free Post On the Streets Capitol Hill, in an instant We interrupt our regularly scheduled rambling to bring you the dumbyng down of Amurica. Lindsey Graham: Hi Office Manager, anything we should know about? Office Manager: Senator, your week is
Free Post On the Streets I'd really miss cheese, eggs, and butter English muffins are like tortillas. Straight out of the bag they're pretty gnarly. You can't convince me otherwise. Today, late afternoon, I needed a snack. I also needed a little
Free Post Consuming Journalism Madness I didn't want to do an addendum to the previous post about Jeffrey Goldberg's collection of unnamed sources saying things, but I have to. I promise I will try to keep it short. I recommend not reading it. This is largely for my own
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Jeffrey Goldberg and the declining credibility of unnamed sources [Note: I botched this in its original form. I started writing Consuming Journalism features a couple of years ago as an exercise in reading journalism more critically. In the original post, I let my frustration with unnamed sources steal the spotlight. I want Consuming
Free Post shoulda been a tweet Shoulda been a tweet: The Marshall Project on former prisoners fighting fires Our prisons and justice system are a mess. I'm not a journalist, so I'm not going to lay out the justification for that assertion. Here are a couple of statistics to chew on from Wikipedia. In September 2013, the incarceration rate of the United
Free Post Movies Ridley Scott stole my moleskine scribbles Hi there. You're reading a blog. I'm going to exercise my Sherlockian powers of deduction. You like reading and writing. It might be beautiful poetry or late night notes that didn't quite make their way to the New York Times bestseller list. Let's carry
Free Post On the Streets On the Streets: B Side, a mini Hopcast, and Kate and Boomer There's an ode to breakfast sandwiches in the newest Harley Quinn movie. I know how she feels. I love a good egg sandwich. My favorite in Seattle is the egg,
Free Post On the Streets Mini me Kate gave me her Instax mini. I love it. I've given up trying to pick my favorite instant film format. They've all got wonderful little quirks. If I had to pick one, it would have been the Instax Wide format, but the Wide is
Free Post Consuming Journalism Consuming Journalism: Los Angeles sheriff's deputies shoot and kill man This post is about the preliminary coverage of a fatal shooting of a black man (some articles identify him as Dijon Kizzee) in Los Angeles by L.A. sheriff's deputies. I saw that both the L.A. Times and Fox News covered the shooting,
