To the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Critical Failures (which is what I’m called in my private life) was in New York and then, after a brief break, in Portland. This extensive course of family-mandated and personal travel doesn’t explain why I’ve been conspicuously silent, but it probably hasn’t helped.

The real reason is that I haven’t been particularly inspired lately. I’m seeing a lot of things and consuming a lot of media. Some of the media has been good, and some of the things have been remarkable, but the good things have tended to be the kind that don’t benefit from elaboration. Likewise, the mediocre ones haven’t been the kind to suggest long posts on their potential improvement.

So here’s a simple list of what I’ve been thinking about, just to clear my mental cache.