Culture Vulture

Putting the Me in Media. …Or is it the I?
This is a personal magazine project from the editor of North Bay Bohemian, Pacific Sun, Healdsburg Tribune, Boheme Magazine, Explore Magazine, and other publications. Basically, you could say…
I’ve got issues.

  • Wake Up and Smell National Coffee Day

    Wake Up and Smell National Coffee Day

    Americans consume 491 million cups of coffee every day, and a disproportionate amount of that is due to me. Had the National Coffee Association, who conducted the survey, called me, I might’ve helped get that number to a cool half billion. I’m one of the 65% of Americans who drink coffee every day, not because…

  • The Lunar Codex, Or…

    The Lunar Codex, Or…

    Lunacy Codified as a Dick Pic? Like any artist, notions of posterity occasionally creep into my consciousness: Will my work outlive me, or will I outlive my work? Right now, me and my work are neck and neck, though I sometimes suspect my work is killing me (though the result, I suppose, would be a…

  • Talk is Cheap… And I Like It

    Talk is Cheap… And I Like It

    Check, check… Is this thing on? And… we’re back! One of the pleasures of being a local media gadfly is getting down with O.P.P. — Other People’s Podcasts — yeah, you know me. Daedalus Howell | Story Desk is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Here…

  • Meanwhile…At the Story Desk

    Meanwhile…At the Story Desk

    “Pffft,” you say. “WTF’S a ‘story desk?’” Well, it’s like the news desk at a newspaper but instead of, say, covering the Man Bites Dog beat, it’s all about the seamy underbelly of storytelling and why it matters (beyond fun and profit). Story is the currency of our times. Story shapes our culture, story drives…

  • Second Brain

    Second Brain

    This was originally written for the March 2023 edition of Philosophy Notes, the newsletter of the Marin Philosophical Society. There’s a continuum that flows like so: data to information to knowledge to wisdom.  Age, I believe, is supposed to support that trajectory. And if not age, at least time. In my case, it’s been neither. …

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  • Earth’s Fast Rotation is the New Spin Cycle Apparently

    As the world turns Even though it’s over, 2020 is still getting worse. Case in point, scientists have discovered that, due to a variety of circumstances, the Earth apparently spun on its axis at an increased rate last year. Yes, our collective merry-go-round is going faster-hang on tight. Though the increased speed added up to only a…