• Arrival/Departure

    We arrived yesterday morning in Germany without too many travel scars despite the simply lovely family that not only tried to take over our seats before we settled on the plane for the next 8 1/2 hours but also proceeded… more ›

  • People Unclear

    Over the past few days I’ve been completely surrounded by people unclear on the concept of how to be adult human beings. For example, when I dropped off my recycling Saturday morning, another man pulled up to drop off his… more ›

  • People Unclear

    Over the past few days I’ve been completely surrounded by people unclear on the concept of how to be adult human beings. For example, when I dropped off my recycling Saturday morning, another man pulled up to drop off his… more ›

  • The Sky Is (Still) Falling

    For those of you who are relatively new to this eight-year-old blog, today is the twenty-eighth anniversary of Skylab‘s descent. I began my own Crash Course shortly before the twentieth anniversary while I was living in Shimonoseki, Japan. (And I… more ›

  • The Sky Is (Still) Falling

    For those of you who are relatively new to this eight-year-old blog, today is the twenty-eighth anniversary of Skylab‘s descent. I began my own Crash Course shortly before the twentieth anniversary while I was living in Shimonoseki, Japan. (And I… more ›

  • Burnt Out

    Cameron Diaz using her eco-friendly (and edible) hair gel. Nothing makes Skajlab wish the whole world would burn to smithereens than the incessant and insipid Cameron Diaz talking about the environment. Yes, I bought those damned expensive light bulbs several… more ›

  • Burnt Out

    Cameron Diaz using her eco-friendly (and edible) hair gel. Nothing makes Skajlab wish the whole world would burn to smithereens than the incessant and insipid Cameron Diaz talking about the environment. Yes, I bought those damned expensive light bulbs several… more ›

  • Personal Daemons

    I respectfully ask those of you who know me–or at least think you know me–to take the short quiz below to determine if my daemon is an accurate representation of my real self.We have twelve days before my daemon is… more ›

  • Personal Daemons

    I respectfully ask those of you who know me–or at least think you know me–to take the short quiz below to determine if my daemon is an accurate representation of my real self.We have twelve days before my daemon is… more ›

  • Required Reading (definitely though with love)

    This Independence Day it’s important for us Americans to finally get it through our thick heads that there is a fundamental, essential difference between nationalism and patriotism. And that neither of those has anything to do with hegemonic warmongering. Just… more ›