Hilariously, we have created a commerce model where it’s increasingly impossible to buy something locally today, but you can have nearly anything on earth delivered tomorrow.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

My scenic design sketches always start out very loose, like this. And usually I'm concurrently playing with basic shapes in 3d space in vectorworks.

So many terrible things, so I just keep working.

the good that you do persists in this world

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

This is one of those times when all of the bad news just sucks the air out of your lungs.

I have finished the first draft of my next stage adaptation! I would take the rest of the day off to celebrate, but I need to work on some scenic drawings.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

There was poetry discourse this week, so thought I'd share this thing that popped into my head while I was sitting on the runway at DTW.

Shot. Chaser.

I found my trapper keeper from 4th and 5th grade today.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I am so close to finishing the first draft of this script! And once I finish, I will go back and somehow cut 20 pages.

I would find a way to build this with a broken dec drive and nixie tube console displays to more accurately reflect my undergraduate AST lab experience.

reminds me of a proverb my russian professor taught me - "when you think you have reached the bottom, listen for the knocking from below."

Unspeakably powerful intergalactic entities would rather kidnap personnel from a Constellation class starship than get therapy smdh

When I was in college, WDIV in Detroit installed "MeTV" booths at local malls and other destinations, where people could record themselves in the hopes of being featured on the news.

I am experiencing winter!

"I learned to live without hope as well as I could, almost happily, in the despoiled and radiant now." Stephen Dunn, A Postmortem Guide (to my Eulogist in Advance)

Found on martiniden666's Tumblr - thought this was a drawing but the caption says it's a photo from 1953 titled Cat in the Snow from photographer Hannes Kilian. #cats #catsinsnow #photography

In my late-30s I started self describing as "increasingly middle aged," but I just realized that, statistically speaking, with each passing year I am now decreasingly middle aged.

I don't want future generations to live in a dystopian hell scape, BUT I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A DYSTOPIAN HELLSCAPE EITHER!

I've always been bothered by the framing of "making the world better for future generations." That lets us off the hook! Let's make the world better now! Then it will also be better for future generations!

A larger issue is, of course, that years ago the government decided US v. Paramount Pictures no longer mattered.

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

There's a new 435 seat performing arts center being built in Grosse Pointe, and one of the featured aspects of the building on the website is "Storm Water Management."

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

We get so caught up in streaming that I forget the sheer diversity that's on digital broadcast TV. Tonight's lineup on ch 4.2 in Detroit: Star Trek, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Highlander!

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Gotta finish off these leftovers, so I'm having a Gravy Plate for lunch.

ICYMI, several people have enjoyed this post.

I’m alive

Lightwright switching to a subscription model is a huge bummer.

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

Oh no, I made the mistake of trying to export a PDF from vectorworks with dashed hidden lines.

Just realized that Fredo Viola's Sad Song was 20 years ago. What a different internet and different world that was.

In honor of World AIDS Day, I'd like to share a story that breaks my heart whenever I tell it. Please read it. It's the story of David Carroll.

Update: I have successfully employed the Gateway Ham strategy to entice her to eat the rest of her lunch.

"Dogs cannot live in ham alone," I tell the dog as she stares at me, unconvinced.

FYI, Ill Submarine is available via the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/2013...

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

Found this bit of ephemera while organizing my office.

I remember sitting in the library stacks as an undergrad, reading all the Stoppard plays on the shelf.

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Mourning the loss of Cincinnati fight/stage violence director Jonn Baca today. Baca was an incredible human and collaborator, generous with his time, expertise, and friendship.