This blog has 2892478 alignment issues, and this irks me as a critic because I can’t do anything about it. I think this is what I’ve been looking for to resolve my blog’s ugly problem. As much as I am happy to commission a web designer to fix things up here, I can’t wait to [...]

My first year of grad school is finally done. Phew. Because these last eight months haven’t been easy, I’ve grown incredibly close to the nine other like-minded students in my class. Together, we’ve cried over personal essays read out loud, then had weekly post-crying class drinks. We wrote odes to objects, memorized design history flashcards, [...]

Rummaging through a flea market in Chelsea one weekend, I came across a binocular viewer with a long extended board attached to a wooden handle. Thinking it was a measuring or aiming device of some sort, possibly even a part of a weapon with a viewfinder, I decided to buy it. As I proceeded to [...]