Exploring Little Rock: A Hidden Gem in the Heart of Arkansas
We travel to Little Rock to explore the city’s architecture, history, and, of course, the food scene.
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Culture & Language
Pavementalities: Bentonville & Rogers, Arkansas
Nat and Adrianne travel to Bentonville and Rogers, Arkansas, a megalopolis where there is no “there” there, and provide an expansive review of the best places to eat, drink, and shop.
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Top Douchemobiles, Rated
A completely unscientific list of the most douchey cars, ranked and with commentary of the kinds of people who drive them.
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Adventures in Wooster, Ohio
Last week began what will be the first of a few actual summer vacations. This first adventure took us to
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Dreaming In Isometric: Variations on Midjourney Prompts
I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Midjourney, a generative AI platform that produces images based on text prompts (and
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Midjourney: The Imagination of the Sane, the Insane, and the Unseen
Imagining a better light switch may well first require imagining a better outlet. Or not. We’ll see.
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Germans Have At Least 7 Words For Train Stations. Because Of Course They Do.
Fahrkarte, bitte! We’re going on a lingusitic-infrastructural journey to learn about how infrastructure thinking is baked into the very language we use to describe it.
Read MoreBurgerbanism: Mike Ransom’s Supercrisp Brings Super-Umami to Detroit Fast Food
Living in Southwest Detroit, we are big fans of Ima (今, Japanese for “now”), the brainchild of Detroit chef Mike
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I asked Midjourney To Imagine The Ideal City. It Was… Weird.
Shortly after beginning my foray into the world of Midjourney AI, I came to a not terribly surprising revelation: A
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Fake News, Faux Progress: The Last Time The Mainstream Media Fought Progress and Civil Rights
The media has been responsible for perpetuating a lot of regressive ideas by giving even passing mention of them, in a lot of cases. Even before the present day of Trump and Alternative Facts, in the 1950s and 1960s, there was plenty of complaining about the Civil Rights movement by mainstream news media.
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