Recent content from James Lileks
Lileks: In Minnesota, March Madness refers to weather, not basketball
If it snows, it's normal. If it doesn't, it's normal.
Lileks: On the weary feeling you have to have an opinion on Post Office trucks
If I can be honest, it's time to talk about what's wrong with some of you people, and what's wrong with me. But first we…
Lileks: A double sawbuck to get into a mall?
How we can save shopping malls not named "Rosedale."
Lileks: Who's crying for the Face With Tears of Joy?
I regret to inform you that the Face With Tears of Joy emoji is over. It is not cool anymore. It is actually hated.This is…
Lileks: Another shortage stuns a weary nation
The nation grapples with another shortage.
Lileks: If there's no office, can we dump office jargon?
Every profession has its own particular jargon. In the military, it's cumbersome, technical and oddly evasive: a smoke bomb is a "kinetically deployed obfuscatory visual-hindrance…
Lileks: Why do we say the cold is bitter?
Is there such a thing as a happy, grateful cold?
Lileks: What if a furniture assembly project ...was easy?
Ikea, which is Swedish for "three screws left over," has announced that it no longer will put out a catalog. What's the point of felling…
Eagan man downplays his disability. He just wants to work.
It's not just a matter of money, but a matter of losing one's ability to make a difference.
Lileks: A permanently pressing question: What to get for Valentine's Day?
Valentine's Day again? Rinse, repeat.