My life is informed by film, and when I am having a particularly terrible terrible awful experience, I often suspend the trauma by framing it through someone else’s celluloid suffering, conjuring an imaginary foil the way Jimi Mistry invented Kyle MacLachlan as Cary Grant in A Touch of Pink. On…
Um, fill it to the top please! Your car is not a phone booth. Your car is not your office. As much as you would like to think you can multitask, the reality is you can’t. That is why the “gods” (Jobs & Gates) created computers… to fill the gap…
From the in case you didn’t notice files, readers and drivers, rejoice! This year is the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. A special site called “Florida’s Interstates – A Half Century of Progress” wants to “Welcome [you] to the party! There’s a nationwide celebration going on in…
Critical Miami recently called “BULLSHIT” on this article (registration required) by Larry Lebowitz about pothole maintenance on I-95. In a post called What’s up with the holes in I-95?, Critical Miami argues that they are man-made, not accidents in need of fixing. [The article] talks all about the difference between…
Muzzled beneath black tarp-like shrouds, traffic lights stand at the ready at 22 on-ramps along the I-95 corridor, from NW 62nd Street north to Ives Dairy Road. Miami’s ”Metered Stop Ramps” were scheduled to go online in 2005; now mid- to late-2007 is the time when motorists aiming to ascend…
If I keep this up, in a year I will have spent one whole month of my life on I-95. I commute about 120 miles a day to Miami New Times from my home in southern Palm Beach County. I know: It’s a misery many of you share. That’s the…
