Crazy Cat Lady: Nine Lives of a Stereotype
From Saint Gertrude, to The Simpsons, to the Vice Presidency of the U.S.A.
science
The Satiety of Live Music
Infrasound, Social Grout, and What Recordings Cannot Deliver
The Concrete Cantata: An Orchestra Without a Score
On highway noise, the loss of silence, and a splinter in the spirit.
The Nose Knows Nothing Anymore: The Politics of Disgust
On the slow erasure of a sense, the pills we take for it, and what the whole arrangement might be doing to our politics.
A Whiff of Nonanal — Or Why You Should Hang Your Laundry in the Sunshine
I first acquired a dryer, meaning a clothes drying machine, in 2005; but only because I inherited one. Used less than ten times in almost 20 years, I just don’t see the necessity. If the weather is completely dreadful, as in snowing or raining, I hang up the laundry