Author Archives: Steve

When we watch the televised funerals of Michael Jackson or Ted Kennedy, Leader suggests, we are engaging in a practice that goes back to soldiers in the Iliad mourning with Achilles for the fallen Patroclus. Our version is more mediated. Still, in the Internet age, some mourners have returned grief to a social space, creating [...]

modern mourning


the string section was scared


i know the feeling

All day I was just, “sausage, sausage, sausage!”
Guy at the table next to us without a shred of self-awareness

woe is coco


medicine

Wondermark

tzatziki tuesday

Tuesday 9/1 is Free Gyros Day
Bless those fine folks at Kronos.

interchangeable meats

The question is: Who is the Henry Ford of the gyro?
The New York Times

statistics are true and tasty

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.
Captain Beefheart

why I love living in the city (a very brief photo essay)