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ROAD WORK AHEAD
Road Work Ahead
"Yeah, I sure hope it does"
Welcome to Road Work Ahead, the blog that is always under construction. Stories posted on a weekly basis including cultural theories, personal anecdotes, and general nonsense.
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TAROT SKIES
I’m making an effort to closely study the tarot in 2025. This is I’m sure the first of many posts relating to this topic because I find...
Jan 96 min read
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2024 Content Round Up
You know what it is at this point. Each year I do a methodological job of archiving all my favorite forms of media. This is what I...
Jan 38 min read
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Good and Plenty: A Relic of Confection
No modern candy is more controversial than Good & Plenty. While not a popular candy, it is far from being a niche designer candy – Good &...
Nov 7, 20244 min read
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Area Codes (and Numerical Identities)
A strange phenomenon of the modern day (perhaps the past 300-200 years, but increasing rapidly - I would say) is how we have been using...
Oct 14, 20244 min read
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Falling Shapes
“You see, man, Tetris, the game you know, it’s a lot like life. Yea, I play tetris all the time almost every day, in between things at...
Aug 28, 20243 min read
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Breakfast Soup
I feel like one of the largest tragedies of the West culinary folklore is the myth that soup is not a breakfast food. The hegemonic...
Jul 24, 20243 min read
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Why is Goldschläger
Over the weekend something came over me, a hunger for opulence. My eyes flickered upon the long-necked bottle, a glowing mystery. Gold -...
Jul 9, 20245 min read
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Mouse Tales
Mice hold a really strange place in our culture. They are simultaneously considered cute but also a major pest. These critters likely...
Jun 17, 20249 min read
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A Silent Gym
Gyms are inherently weird spaces. Postmodern to the limit; spaces where bodies perform ritualized movement against resistance as ways to...
May 22, 20245 min read
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CSS Concert Review
On a May Monday night at the Foundry in Philadelphia, we found ourselves dancing to the groovy, weird vibes of CSS. While I bought the...
May 10, 20244 min read
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Neurodivergence in David Foster Wallace's Writing
So I’m a big David Foster Wallace fan, which is something I haven't written much about directly. In fact, I have read all of his books,...
May 1, 20245 min read
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The Language of Smells
Isn’t it a little odd that smells are so rarely acknowledged linguistically? I feel like the whole sense is relegated to simile;...
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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In Defense of Fun (From Trivial Conspiracies)
Interview #5 – Money. Love. Power. Prestige. These are all viewed as rather legitimate pursuits in the professional realm, wouldn’t you...
Mar 19, 20242 min read
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The First Line of Each Short Story in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Collected Stories
From Collected Stories (1984) by Garbriel Garcia Marquez, separated into three sections. Eyes of a Blue Dog - Translated by Gregory...
Mar 17, 20244 min read
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The Leap Day Evangelical Church
For most people, February 29th is just another day in their life, indistinguishable from any other day besides a cursory, “huh it’s leap...
Feb 28, 20246 min read
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Letter Lines
I have been thinking about letter shapes recently and realized that there are really only 3 ways in which English alphabet are written:...
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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Recognition
Recognition Is he who I think he is, or is this recognition simply an illusion? Does he live in Philadelphia? I think he did at some...
Jan 15, 202413 min read
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5 Years of Reading
I try to do a lot of reading, and basically, since 2019 I have been doing a fastidious job of keeping track of all the books I read on an...
Jan 9, 202418 min read
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All My Saunas
Saunas have become ritualized spaces for the past couple of years of my life. I’ve experienced good saunas and bad saunas, but I feel...
Nov 19, 20236 min read
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Ghosting Tiers
It's spo0oo0o0ky season, so in honor of this time of year, I'm going to write about a system I've had in place for a while but never...
Oct 22, 20234 min read
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