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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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Month Stuff
One of my most nerdy thought spirals is thinking about calendars and time. I have already touched on my calendar fascination in some of...
Oct 7, 20235 min read
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Railway Joe
Every now and then I dig deep into my family tree and try to forage through the past actions of my relatives. There is a figure in my...
Aug 7, 20234 min read
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The Cone Culture Manifesto
One of the first things that people often learn about me is my obsession with Traffic cones. For example, when people introduce me to...
Aug 2, 202315 min read
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Tattooless
Something I’ve been becoming increasingly more self-conscious about (or perhaps maybe observing, self-conscious tends to have such a...
Jul 19, 20237 min read
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The Duke and The Cone
(from "City of Saints, City of Cones", 2022) The Duke of Wellington Statue is a significant monument in Glasgow’s Urban Civil Religion....
Jul 4, 202313 min read
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Xiaoying Cuisine: A YouTube Cooking Channel Conspiracy
A couple of months ago on my YouTube homepage, I saw a strange-looking video of 4 raw eggs over rice in a rice cooker titled “Since I...
May 11, 202312 min read
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Cover Critic: This Must Be the Place
(originally posted 6/22/20) Hello everyone - this is a post that I wrote June 2020 for my previous blog (June 2020 was almost 3 years...
May 8, 202310 min read
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The Mythological Lunk
For the past couple of weeks I have been working out at Planet Fitness. I am no gym connoisseur, but Planet Fitness does not exactly work...
Apr 25, 20234 min read
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David Bowie and Me (Updated)
This is a bit of a sloppy post, it was written over many different periods, and I will refine it much more in the future, but want to...
Apr 11, 202312 min read
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New City Two Feet
I have been running for a long time, so much so that it’s a core part of my identity and how I go about experiencing the world. The...
Apr 1, 20235 min read
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Sludgefest -Alvin and The Chipmunks on 16 Speed
Weird musical curiosities are always one of my favorite things to write about, and I think that this particular finding is at the top of...
Mar 16, 20236 min read
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Transylvania - East Haven, Connecticut
When one crosses the Q Bridge from New Haven into East Haven one is thrown into a vast anti-wilderness of one of those streets that can...
Mar 9, 20235 min read
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Weird Entymology
Weird. It’s a word that we all know and love and use on a daily basis: “that was weird”, “it was a weird vibe”, “the music was weird”,...
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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Giving Up the Owl Streak: 1000 Days of Duolingo
This Valentine’s Day I ended one of my longest committed relationships: my Duolingo streak. That dastardly green language owl and I have...
Feb 15, 20235 min read
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A Brief Technological History of Beer and Beer Manufacturing
To celebrate the end of Dry January, I am going to post an old essay about the technology of beer. I wrote this for an assignment in my...
Feb 5, 20235 min read
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A Visit to The Brain Museum
Nothing is better than finding a weird or spooky place buried deep below unassuming locations, and The Cushing Center in New Haven is a...
Jan 29, 20238 min read
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St. Anthony and My Family's Mythos
One of my favorite things to analyze is how things from way back in the deep past snowball into social formations in the present day. It...
Jan 21, 20239 min read
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"toad sings chandelier": A Spiritual Experience
Rarely do I hear a song that on the first listen transcends my understanding of the limitations of music. But recently, as I become more...
Jan 16, 20235 min read
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January Blues
For the past couple of Januaries, I have been ostensibly obsessed with the concept of “January”. By this, I mean not just the month, but...
Jan 8, 20239 min read
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Top Albums of 2022
Top Albums of 2022 While there’s been a lot of albums that I liked this year I am going to write about my top 4. Top 5 sounds much more...
Dec 21, 20226 min read
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