I recently attended the WordPress conference in San Francisco, and amidst the barrage of tech info and blogging propaganda, I was unexpectedly moved by a young, amiable, barely intelligible man named Rinat Tuhvatshin. He runs a system of blogs in Kyrgyzstan, using the same software that The Whole 9 runs on. He seemed uncharacteristically jovial; [...]

Considering how much time I spend trolling art openings and museums, it’s rather amusing that so little art actually evokes a visceral response from me. Many pieces are intellectually interesting, of course, but nothing really seizes my by the neck and shakes me to the bone. With a couple of exceptions…
One chilly dark night, years [...]