Season premieres

God, I love promo posters.  There’s nothing better to get you excited about new seasons — and I don’t just mean in the television sense.
I saw plenty of promos for season 2 of Mad Men on my recent trip to New York.  I don’t know if there’s anything particularly symbolic about this imagery, but man [...]

New Yorker stories: The Headstrong Historian

So I’m perusing the fiction page on the New Yorker website looking for my next story to read when I realize that T. Coraghessan Boyle has not one, not two, but three of the most recent 25 stories listed.  Really, New Yorker?  Really???  Not only do you give John Updike two stories, but Coraghessan gets [...]

Status update: iPhone apps

Well, this was pretty unexpected.  That huge launch of the App Store I was so excited about earlier has actually resulted in extremely little change in my day-to-day living.  I’ve only installed a handful of apps and have been mostly unimpressed.  In fact I think I still prefer the mobile web version of Facebook over [...]