Alex Balk
Futilitarian
Mar 12
Mar 11
» : Tsunamis, Gunshots and Black Swans
I feel funny writing about personal things, but the anniversary of the tsunami in Japan had me thinking a lot about loss, and the unexpected events that change our lives forever. 3/11 was such an emotional event, and remembering it now touches upon an unexpected event in my own life that is a bit…
Mar 08
Mar 07
Fixed.
Mar 05
Feb 11
I’ve said “Burn it all down” about the Internet three times so far today, but this time I really mean it. (Although I also really meant it for this.)
Feb 06
It really, really is.Georgia
Music for Sleeping ChildrenThis is something.
Feb 05
Feb 03
Jan 29
Nobody ever asks about my bookcase.
» http://www.spin.com/articles/cracker-low-david-lowery-oral-history
I didn’t start feeling old until I saw the word “Jodeci.”
Jan 20
It’s been done before.FUCK no. Appalling. Everything single thing about this is wrong.
(More Bell Jar thoughts, and designer insight, but no clues about wtf happened here).
Jan 16
Dec 26
The Next Generation Is Nipping At Your Heels
In about a decade—and maybe less—
They’ll be there knocking hard against the door:
The kids whose year of birth starts with “two-oh,”
Convinced that it’s their time to take the floor.
At first we’ll shake our heads in disbelief
And then we’ll mock their raw, untutored ways
And finally we’ll sit there in a daze,
Our burning anger yielding thus to grief.
Of course we’ve seen this sort of thing before
But then we were the ones proclaiming, “Go!”
Eventually each cohort ends their tour.
That’s the awful way the world works, I guess.
Dec 21
