Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
Question: Is there a better litmus test of 1980’s celebrity than a guest appearance on Love Boat? Wikipedia’s master list includes Corey Feldman, Pat Morita, Rich Little, Menudo, the Village People, and the Pointer Sisters. Also included: Lorne Greene, Shecky Green, Pam Grier, and Andy Warhol. Surprisingly omitted: The Harlem Globetrotters.
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Sarah brought over an excellent old book called The Trees of California, by Willis Linn Jepson. It was published in 1909, and it had some amazing photos of the redwoods up north. The caption reads: “Fig 15. REDWOOD (Sequoia sempervirens Endl.) Making the “undercut”, which determines the direction of the fall, on a tree 16 feet [...]
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Doug LeMoine is puzzled that the construction of Facebook status updates requires me/him to refer to myself/himself in the third person. This format gives structure to the News Feed, but it also encourages the updater to craft the update as a sentence beginning with his/her full name. The forced third-person would seem to create myriad [...]
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What I know about the inner-workings of politics I learned in The Power Broker, and therefore I don’t claim to know much other than the sausage-making involved in building the Triborough Bridge. Still, I was struck by the following passage from Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile of Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of [...]
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In a field / I am the absence / of field. / This is / always the case. / Wherever I am / I am what is missing — Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole”
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
