by David | Feb 16, 2011 | reading & writing
Blue sugar fallen from a child’s Grover cupcake? No, toxic ice-melt. Moritake
by David | Feb 14, 2011 | reading & writing, urbanism
Gleaming glassy glob Reflecting the steely sky A frozen loogie
by David | Jan 31, 2011 | reading & writing
It’s bad enough to run out of things to write, but I’m starting to worry that I’ve also run out of things to say. The other day at work, during a lull, discussion tuned to whale watching. We started sharing stories of whale watches we’d been...
by David | Nov 22, 2010 | reading & writing, transportation, urbanism
I try not to look at the ads in the T, especially the ones over the tracks. If you look there too long, your animal brain starts to notice things moving down there and you become aware of a whole rodent jamboree. But that’s not my point, this is: I saw it a...
by David | Oct 22, 2010 | culture, eating, reading & writing
Today’s word of the day is affogato. The literal definition from Italian is “drowned” but affogato also describes and names a dessert composed of espresso poured over a scoop of vanilla ice cream or gelato. Usually, you’re served a shot or...
by David | Apr 16, 2010 | culture, reading & writing, working
I was editing a blog post at work the other day – it may surprise you to learn that writing this blog is not my job – and I amended “the data says” to “the data say” because as everybody pedant knows, “data” is the...
