Field Notes

notes, photos, sketches, & asides

Suburban bliss.

Dylan / 5/25/2016

Not to complain, but the children have been obnoxious, I’m not sleeping enough, car alarms keep going off in the […]

Dylan / 5/21/2016

“The problem is, maximizing interruptions in the name of business creates a tragedy of the commons, ruining global attention spans

Dylan / 5/20/2016

I’m doing a swim on Sunday, May 22, as part of the annual Bay Parade. I’m part of a relay team,

Dylan / 5/19/2016

Vox just dropped a 12-minute master class on prosody featuring some amazing rap lyrics. Rhyme, beats, metrical motives … this

Dylan / 4/1/2016

As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has

Dylan / 3/3/2016

Few men have souls so dead that they will not bother to look up when they hear the barking of

Dylan / 2/11/2016

Comedian Samantha Bee has a late-night talk show that starts this week. From a recent New York Times story on

Dylan / 2/8/2016

You will be no swimmer till you can place some confidence in the power of the water to support you.

Dylan / 1/1/2016

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live

Dylan / 8/31/2015

“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has