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Looking out to see what’s leftIt isn’t hard to be bereftThe stuff we hoped would stick aroundIs buried deep within the groundWhile garbage that we’d scorn and jeerGrows more successful every year:Flailing wildly for attentionMaking things too crass to mentionPumping out the same old crapIn hopes it puts them on the map Watching all the […]| Hmm Daily
We walked into the comic-book store a block and a half from the beach, the seven-year-old and I, as we’ve been doing for three or four years now. The child headed toward the trade paperbacks of Marvel and D.C. superhero titles on the side wall, leading the way, a few steps in front of me. […]| Hmm Daily
Sobriety is currently having a moment in America, as plenty of folks have decided they no longer need (or want) booze to drive their social life. A recent Forbes article cited a distilled spirits survey where 83 percent of Los Angeles bartenders confirmed that zero- alcohol drinks were a legit trend. 83! As a person […]| Hmm Daily
The naming conventions for recreational vehicles are not subtle. In any given park there are rigs tagged with word-strings like Admiral Holiday Rambler, Keystone Hideout, or Forest River Cedar Creek Silverback. What they are marketing is not all that complex, whether it’s the promise of natural beauty just outside the suburbs (Vista Cruiser, Sunseeker, Canyon […]| Hmm Daily
Good morning! A little more than nine months ago, we launched Hmm Daily, as a demonstration of faith or at least hope in two propositions: that articles published on a website were still a thing that people were motivated to read, and that it might be possible for us to use new tools to build […]| Hmm Daily
After several years of frequently being unable to access my own accounts, spend my own money, or generally make my way around the Net unimpeded, it struck me that I may not be what I thought I was. Though I was raised to believe I was a human—perhaps like many of you presently analyzing and […]| Hmm Daily
The Blanket Now, from the comfort of my own apartment, I wish I could find the woman with the blue blanket. I would tell her how her single, quiet gesture became a part of the foundation upon which I finally stood, steadied myself—and walked out of my homelessness. But I can’t even recall what she […]| Hmm Daily
Probably it was kids at the beach burying other kids at the beach, but something made me start thinking again about this video I’ve never really stopped thinking about, where the badger completely buried the carcass of a 50-pound calf to save the meat for later, to the astonishment of scientists. National Geographic wrote up […]| Hmm Daily
My mom died about two years ago, and even though she generally avoided doctors, one thing she always said was that she wanted her body to be donated to science, medicine, whatever, because she wanted the world to get some use out of her mortal remains, and because she thought the whole funeral industry was […]| Hmm Daily
The notice was thoughtfully displayed on top of a writing pad next to the telephone, in our hotel in Shanghai. But no one telephones nowadays. So I didn’t see the sheet of paper, with its neatly formatted corporate logos, until my daughter brought it to me to make her a paper airplane. | Hmm Daily
In April, in a small town on a small island in a small string of islands trailing down from the main part of Japan, the world’s then-oldest person died. Nabi Tajima was 117 years old—the last surviving human being born in the 19th century. | Hmm Daily
