A List: One of Many

Lists used to be for laundry. We made lists to remind ourselves of the tedious details of daily life that needed attention. 1) Send a thank-you to Aunt Pat for the Christmas pajamas. 2) Water the bougainvillea! et cetera. In the digital age, we make lists to entertain ourselves. Now lists exist to divert us … Continue reading A List: One of Many →

Geek Culture

Right around the turn of the New Year in 2011, Patton Oswalt wrote a piece for WIRED magazine in connection with his very funny book, Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland. He suggested that geek culture is dead. He wrote that because what we used to perceive as geek culture—comics, obsessions with rare movies or television shows, and … Continue reading Geek Culture →