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How To Park in Florida

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2019-02-02
Post category:beauty / being lost / identity / mobility / travel

This is how you park your car in Florida when you either don't care about the consequences or you have more insurance than those around you. Anyone remember the parking…

Beauty in Motion

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2018-06-06
Post category:beauty / food / making / mobility / nature / travel

Gorodish explains the Zen of buttering a baguette to Jules in the 1981 film Diva On 29 May 2018 in Washington, DC, we were having an afternoon capuccino in the…

Unreliable

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2016-12-04
Post category:being lost / communication / mobility

I found the above note on a signup sheet from the previous students in the design studio suite on the third floor (north-east side) of the College of Design at…

On Learning When and Where Things are in Season

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2015-07-01
Post category:identity / making / mobility / travel

As we ambled slowly through Hendersonville, NC, we came across the Curb Market on Church Street where locals were selling local things. The last time we had visited our friends…

That’s Only the Top

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2015-01-25
Post category:being lost / identity / mobility / travel

Harry Belafonte recalls telling a joke to Robert Altman: Early in our relationship, I told a joke and it became the metaphor for everything in our lives. These two musicians decided…

Buying Milk Makes Me Think of The Future

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2014-01-28
Post category:food / mobility

Whenever I’m at my local HyVee zooming in on the organic lactose-free skim milk in that wardrobe of a refrigerator, I’m looking for use-by-dates as far in the future as…

Company Vehicle

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2012-02-06
Post category:identity / making / mobility

Here's a look at our new company vehicle, a 2012 Hyundai Sonata; a nice fit given that one of our co-owners is a professional musicologist and a music performer. We…

Nashville Contrails

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2011-12-11
Post category:mobility / travel

Early in the morning, on a Sunday, just before Nashville, the contrails range from spiky, precise lines in the far distance to smeared out white hashes in the blue sky.

The Pope, Osama, and I

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2011-05-01
Post category:being lost / mobility / travel

So, I’m cruising in this skinny and thin-skinned aluminium tube at 35000 feet, going approximately 500 mph on my way back to the United States from Rome on May 1,…

Crossroads

Post author:polytekton
Post published:2010-09-19
Post category:being lost / identity / mobility

Al Giardello, better known as Gee, commander of the Homicide unit in the TV series Homicide: Life in the Streets, Season 3, Number 4: Crosetti, gave a brief monologue in response to…