Bitcoin and Chidhananda: Some Thoughts on Cryptocurrency in the Age of Unchecked Desire

"The solution of every problem is another problem." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The subject of Bitcoin came up a few weeks ago in the strangest of places.  I'd traveled from Brooklyn with friends to lead kirtan on Martha's Vineyard, and after a day's drive and three hours of singing, a dozen of us, the...

Life, Death and Baseball: Some Notes on the 2018 World Series

We spent most of our Sunday in Westchester County, where we attended the funeral of a friend's father who had passed away, very unexpectedly, at the age of 72.  I'd never met the man and knew very little of him before the service, but over the course of the day; the memorial, the burial and...

A Strange Pilgrimage: Our Journey to New York Comic Con 2018

It's like this.  We're up sometime between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m., and there is an inherent austere quality to being functionally conscious at such an hour.  There is a sacredness to it, whether one is working through the middle of some graveyard shift, or lying awake in some lonely state of insomnia, or a...