This post by Alex Tabarrok reminded me, oddly enough, of a little prose poem I wrote as a teenager—just over a decade ago, if the date on it is to be trusted. So, against my better judgment, one from the vaults, just for the hell of it: I drive a medium-sized black 1987 Audi 5000. […]

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There’s been a flurry of blogospheric introspection lately, with posters plumbing their archives to see what they were wrong about in the days leading up to the Iraq war. I actually think my track record there was pretty good, so instead I’ll follow Tyler Cowen’s lead and note something I falsely believed in childhood: Until […]

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My sporadically-functioning cell just decided it didn’t feel like remembering any of my friends’ numbers anymore. If I should have your number, either shoot me an email or (better still) text me your name from your phone.

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So, my father and I both loved Carlos Ruis Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, the labyrinthine Spanish bestseller in which a young bibliophile attempts to track down the elusive novelist Julián Carax, whose (brilliant but rare) books are being systematically destroyed by a man with no face. Early in the book, the teenage protagonist […]

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My friend Liz needs help for a grad school project: If you’ve ever recorded, made, uploaded, or emailed a video over the Internets, she wants to interview you. Actually, it sounds at this point as though if you’ve ever had a VHS tape sort of near your computer, that’ll do as well. If that’s you, […]

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Next time you’ve got an appropriate group of people together, and the appropriate amount of alcohol, give this a shot: Agree on a poetic form. One of the sonnet styles is probably a safe bet; if your friends can pull this off with (say) a sestina, they’re both scary smart and not nearly tipsy enough. […]

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In case anyone had been wondering, here’s the sound clip from Transformers: The Movie. (The original classic, not what will, in all likelihood, be the Michael Bay abortion.) Fun fact: Megatron’s interlocutor in this scene, Unicron, is Orson Welles in his final screen role. Welles derided it as “a movie about toys who do horrible […]

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So, I’d figured a trivia team comprising Ezra Klein, Megan McArdle, Dave Weigel, and myself would be blogaliciously nerdtastic enough to have a good shot at winning the weekly pub quiz at Wonderland last night. And we got close, but ultimately came in second by one tiebreaker question… to Alex Pareene‘s team.

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Not finalized yet, but it looks as though we may have secured new digs in the neighborhood. Whew.

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It seems the 22nd century levitating-tour of great DC landmarks will be stopping only briefly at the corner of 13th St. and Florida, where I’m currently living with Reasonoids Dave Weigel and Kerry Howley. The owners are (somewhat unexpectedly) moving back from the UK in March, and so we’re suddenly three libertoids in search of […]

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