updates @ m.blog

After reading this, I realized my dog really isn’t pulling his weight around the house:
Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer […] The dog, whose sensitive […]

If you happen to be in Portland, Oregon during the next week–and you’re an art fan–check out my brother’s show, currently in the last week at Gallery Disjecta. He’s a photographer who works with digital collage and the reappropriation of images. You can also check out some of his work on his website […]

This summer I read (like nearly every other New Yorker) Robert Sullivan’s Rats.
Perhaps it was this recent memory, combined with my research interests in the history of science and technology, that made me find this collection of antique mouse and rat traps to be quite fascinating, in a somewhat morbid way. My favorite is […]