How do so many tenants of dead malls stay alive, and why are so many videos of dead malls so interesting? Why do I keep watching? Why is so much of a physical place’s legitimacy so pinned to what we all agree about it? Why is it that one minor opinion of it can cause …
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Blade Out, Turned Inward, For You
To those of you who follow me on the various social media: you’ve come to expect that most of the personal, introspective, realistic things I post are self-deprecating jokes, right? I can speak something serious, something plain and direct, but in the comments, you’re joking because you think I’m joking. Right? OK. So here’s a …
Improbabilities
Radio continues to be a fickle and rewarding thing. I spent some time in Brentwood park yesterday. Threw my 20-meter dipole between some trees and tried to make contacts. Due to a national HF contest, there wasn’t much space in the good parts of the band to get a word in edgewise. Eventually, I was …