Here’s the thing about standing on your head: it’s incredibly easy, once you get up there.
And that feeling, of looking upside down at the world while you hover, is like stepping into space. The first time I did it, I thought I was dying. It was three seconds away from being an out-of-body experience. Everything seemed [...]
Jurvis claims that my images are too tiny. “I want to click on them, and see a bigger version!” he says. For two years, I passionately resisted this potential improvement for no reason whatsoever.
Kelly and Adam at Mystic Lake
Until today. Click the image for a larger version. Woo woo.
Like most people, places and things, the Somerville Library would be beautiful if it were only lit correctly. The peeling paint could acquire an antique charm, the missing ceiling tiles a sense of mystery, of the forgotten, and the painted horse engravings edging the wall could occupy a fascinating territory between ballroom and barnyard — [...]
Dear Internet,
Ah. You know what? Perhaps I shouldn’t have published that post, four years ago. If I were going to insist upon publishing that post four years ago, however, there were a few, very reasonable options you gave me. And there’s no use feigning naiveté, I was aware of all of them. I could have [...]
Some fish like the dark.
I’d been to the Boston Aquarium multiple times and had never seen that sign. It hovered over a set of thick black velvet curtains near the main doors, like an entrance to some haunted magicians’ supply store. Nearby, the chaos of aquatic gifts and Dippin Dots churned together with other important [...]