In my current place – where I sit and type this right this very moment – it is too damn hot. I do not do well in the heat (thinking, writing, organizing etc.) unless I have cool alcoholic beverages at hand. I have none. I suffer through.
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
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on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024Wait wait wait. You mean other people see things differently than you do? How can they be so blind!
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024Selfishness can lead to a tantrum, just like an interstate can lead to a mall. Mall doesn't imply in… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024If you can duplicate the internal structure of something, it's very likely you understand its intern…
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024I stand by my word salad assertion. It's cool. I understand now. if he had been willing to concede t…
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024“Tantrum” doesn’t imply selfishness. Like, at all. Statements like this are how I know you have neve… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024It's like in Westworld. It looks like something. It just doesn't look like anything to him. It's wor… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024This: Do you have the capability to see how your framing here could be interpreted as other than obv… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024You were able to create a sentence with a parallel structure, so how can you claim that it was word… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024"Tantrum" doesn't imply selfishness. Like, at all. on Weekend Plans Post: The Aftermath of Catching UpGuys, guys, guys. You know about the trick where you put a pat of butter on the potato before wrappi…
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We’re having our spring monsoons. It’s wonderful. I went to high school in the desert; it ruined me for heat. I start bitching at 80 degrees.Report
Cascadian – I love monsoons. We get them here, too. Actually right now it’s lovely outside. It’s inside that’s killing me. It just gets stifling in my office. We get nowhere the monsoons that Vancouver gets, but for a mountain town surrounded by deserts on all sides, a couple months of hard rain is a damn fine thing….Report
Meh. I’ll trade you – it’s been overcast, gloomy, and rainy every day here in Jersey for the last week or so. I’ve forgotten what the sun looks like, which is not a good thing for the first week of May.Report
E.D. Where are you at in Arizona with mountains? Ever been to Jerome?Report
Cascadian – I live in Flagstaff @ 7000 ft in the largest Ponderosa forest in the world, and totally surrounded by desert on all sides. It’s lovely. Jermoe is also lovely. We go there now and then – it’s about an hour and fifteen minutes from here. I went to a wild VW van gathering – forget what it was called – lots of pot smoking VW pseudo-hippies. Great views from the hillside there, too. Some amazing camp sites at the top of that mountain….Report
Cool. I’ve only driven through Flagstaff but love Sedona. Do you have a van? I’m a huge fan of vintage buses. I have a ’79 and ’78 Westy. I like the way they’re set up for camping. I’m starting to get an awful itch for a 23 window.Report
Sedona’s beautiful but way too touristy and busy for me anymore. Great hikes, though. Really tremendous, breath-taking views, especially if you know where to go. I don’t have a van anymore – and never had a VW. At the time I went in my giant Chevy Beauville which dwarfed pretty much every other vehicle there, though lacked in many other ways but especially charm. What a trip, though.Report