I spent a good amount of time last week editing obituaries for my day job. While such a task can feel honorary, part of the work made me sad. Not for the passing of the people, exactly–most of them were…
Over at one of my day jobs, I’m the nonfiction editor for the Tahoma Literary Review. I love it to pieces, even if sometimes the work makes my head spin. We read a lot of submissions over there, and we…
Welcome to brain flotsam, the weekly column where I tell you about some stuff I read, saw, or otherwise encountered. A woman down the street from us waves with both arms when she sees us walking the dog. I like…
Welcome back to Brain Flotsam, the weekly feature that touches on things I heard, read, and saw that made me go Hmmmm. Here’s what I encountered this week! A tour of the British Isles in accents! I haven’t vetted this…
Welcome back to the weekly digest of things I saw, heard, or encountered this week that I thought you might like, too! Check this awesome museum out: It’s the museum of endangered sound. Yes, sounds like the fax shriek, the…
Or, Stray Memories. I think my predilection for orange food (see Cheez-Its; Cheetos [the caveman-club-shaped kind, not the poufy kind]; Annie’s Extra-Cheddary Bunnies; Goldfish; Clementines; carrots with their skin on) may have been encouraged by one Pat Crow, the first…
*Actually, you didn’t even get a postcard. You didn’t get a postcard because I was too busy staring at the water, ice, penguins, leopard seals, crazy-ass predator birds that sounded like miniature Blue Angels as they went by, looking to…
Howie Long: Hi, sports fans, I’m Howie Long. Phil Liggett: And I’m Phil Liggett. HL: And we’re back from break to bring you live coverage of a very special event: The annual Golden Pencil literary readings. PL: That’s right, Howie….
Copywriting is a largely internal pursuit. And yes, it’s largely solitary. But there is a certain amount of teamwork that takes place, and just as much “brainstorming” as, if not more than, you’d get in any bullpennish office with folks…
This weekend, on one of my runs, I listened to a RadioLab episode called “Lost & Found.” It was partly about how our brains piece together where we are. In one segment, a scientist named Lera Boroditsky told us about…
