ben brantley’s blog

I only have a few pictures of Chaco from when he was a puppy… I wasn’t bright enough to think of taking more. Consequently, the ones I do have I really treasure. The situation is similar with pictures of Kathy from long ago… “long” being maybe three or four years, of [...]

This is hilarious:

Late last week I splurged and purchased my first computer game in an eternity: DOOM 3. DOOM 1 came out in 1993 and kind of defined early first-person 3d perspective video gaming… Ed and Abe and I spent countless hours blasting each other into oblivion.
Needless to say, this year’s DOOM is a [...]

This is a fragment of obsidian from near Panum Crater, an active volcano just south of Mono Lake. Kathy tells me this is the northernmost volcano in the Mono Craters Chain. It last erupted 600 years ago… let’s hope it holds out at least another few so we can keep skiing up [...]