Thomas is my Co-Pilot At 12pm on a hot August day I took my driving test, parallel parked like a champ, and earned my California Driver License. At 2pm that same day, my grandfather gifted me a Thomas Guide to San Diego county. For much longer than I care to admit, I flipped through the spiral bound pages while pulled over to the side of a dark road, trying to get my bearings on the map and making questionable U-Turns in my 1990’s-era Toyota 4-Runner to get to places. The maps bound in that Thomas Guide on the almost laminated…
How I Met Your MU/TH/UR: Playing with text
MU/TH/UR Issues Alien is my favorite movie. Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece of cinema hooked me immediately when I first watched it at maybe 10-years-old. The suspense! The action! The badassery! The acid! It had everything a kid could want, and then some. But I came to appreciate it in new ways as both my view-count of Alien and my age grew. The “badass-ness” of Ripley as a person, a woman, and an alien-kicking survivalist took on new textures and inspiration. The creepiness of MU/TH/UR, the ship’s operating system, deepened, echoing that of HAL 9000, cautioning against unfettered technocratic capitalism. via…
Around the World in 80 CTRL+Fs
Footnotes I have strong opinions about footnotes. I do not care if you judge my nerdiness, but I love a footnote. I especially love a footnote in a monograph. Endnotes are…fine, but too much work. When I come across an especially interesting detail or am reading an author prone to including banter or anecdotes, I want to instantly satisfy that curiosity on the bottom of the page rather than use a finger to keep my place and awkwardly flip to the back.[1] But not too long ago, I found myself racing to the back of a book in search of…
