PeSuit and Tie

  august culture-meter trying something new this month, here's a look back onto hot vs not cultural moments: what i'm reading... i got a new newsletter from the cleveland museum of art , and their upcoming live performances are a work of art! big emphasis on korean art, including a few korean musicians that are coming end of year. i began reading the grapes of wrath . i have a bizarre fascination with the dust bowl and the depression era and lately have been finding many parallels between society today and a hundred years ago, particularly lately with the talk on data centers booming from town to town. will this also dry out the land like the lack of crop rotation did because of millionaires of the 1920s? what a hauntingly timeless piece of work.  what i'm listening to... tune into the playlist i made for ireland trip . note: there's a lot of british performers too, i forgot for a minute that irish people hate the brits. this is my first gig in IRELAND what i'm watc...

the irish travel diary ireland was a wonderful dreamscape over the weekend. while ohio enjoyed nice weather this labor day, sib and i escaped the green lands of the better land, immersing in the beautiful irish accent spoken around us, downing guiness every chance we got, and wandered through the cobbled streets of dublin until wee late hours.  trinity college day 1 we're at the cleveland airport, a packed flight. oh well, sib and i were thankful we got there on time. traveling through cleveland on a friday before a holiday around 5pm is treacherous. everything felt so... green . was it just my fixation on ireland - the emerald skirt sets worn by the flight attendants, the cheerfully green sign and signature clover at the aer lingus gate? all I saw in the crowd waiting for our flight were subtle (or not) hints of green. i was a victim of this, wearing my green adidas gazelles. maybe we all reached for something green, signifying the moors and typical green irish decor, and the gree...