FlightStat’s flight tracker tool (great for terrorists!) is telling me that my flight, DL2719, is currently over Rose City, Michigan on the border of the Huron National Forest. Sounds nice. There are probably snow-covered trees glinting in the dawn light and all that. But up here in the plane, it still smells like La Guardia …
Author Archives: Nathan
It’s the Little Things
From my friend Katherine GB: news that the U.S. Passport Agency is now changing its application for minors to use the words ‘parent’ and ‘parent’, instead of ‘mother’ and ‘father’. This is the kind of thing that conservatives HATE (yes, yet another thing), because it would seem to deny that there is such a thing …
The Classics, in Lego
Given that Legos were a big theme this Christmas, it only seems right to share this work by the Lego-obsessed artist Marco Pece. BitRebels has the scoop on his collection recreating the classic works of art (Pece has put the photos on Flickr as well), and if you’re into that kind of thing, you’ll dig …
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Literally
I know Shel Silverstein wasn’t being literal about “where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins”. The poem was not about an actual sidewalk, but about prelapsarian childminds and such. But here in the town that Silverstein adopted as his own, Key West, I have a literal gripe. This is the town where the …