Sep. 11 2009

i was tying my shoes.

i can’t remember which shoe it was, but my roommate at the time and i were getting ready to go to class.  he told me to check out the tv and i called my family.

that morning, our professor took us into the control room of the tv studio to watch news reports and she left crying, telling us we could do whatever we wanted.

loss of family friends, colleague’s spouses; stories of near misses and the universe politely shuttling people just past danger filled the months after.

my initial reaction wasn’t much.

we stand here, this place in time, and i don’t think it has hit all of us that we are on the brink of something utterly uncontroable.

then i had a few more days to think about it.

but i think you understand. we’ve already lost whatever war we think we’re declaring.

time marches on, but we will never forget.

Apr. 20 2009

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace.

The speech Nixon would have given if Neil Armstrong had been stranded on the moon.

How Houston rehearsed its worst ever problem

(via mikehudack)

Apr. 11 2009

Against Realtime

The future is now, more so than ever. Silicon Valley, filled with worshipers of the new, has embraced “realtime” as the latest trend. If it didn’t happen in the last 10 minutes, it doesn’t matter.

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This relentless neophilia is based on the notion that information only has value if it’s fresh. That the only news is breaking news. That the only thing you want to know about your friends is what they’re doing right now.

What if it’s all wrong?

Oct. 17 2008

Obama is deeply grounded in the best aspirations of this country, and we need to return to those aspirations. He has had the character and the will to achieve great things despite the obstacles that he faced as an unprivileged black man in the U.S.

He has risen with his honor, grace and civility intact. He has the intelligence to understand the grave economic and national security risks that face us, to listen to good advice and make careful decisions.

The Chicago Tribune (via urg)

Jul. 20 2008

Savile Row

Part 1 of a 3 part documentary about Savile Row, the street in London, where the worlds leading bespoke tailors have made suits for the rich and famous for several centuries. Where Churchill bought his pinstripe and Fred Astaire, his tails. The filming coincides with the arrival of an undesirable element on the street, Abercrombie and Fitch.

would’ve included the video but, surprisingly, i can’t rummage up an embed code from google video. click through to watch.