Chad Comello

For years I’ve kept a running list of random phrases I’ve seen or heard in the wild—or inadvertently made myself—that sounded like they’d make a great name for a band, album, movie, or other work of art.

An ongoing series As a Class of 2010 graduate, I can confirm: the best time to be in college was 2006-2010.

A spinoff of an ongoing series A Minecraft Movie.

We were driving through southern Michigan awhile back and I noticed how the signs on country roads would change between DO NOT PASS when approaching a hill or turn and then PASS WITH CARE once the road straightened out.

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Joan Westenberg on the absurdity of trying to future-proof your life: We’ve all seen the LinkedIn exhortations: learn the right skills before the machines take your job, invest in the right companies before automation hollows out the market, anticipate the

In his book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again, Johann Hari quotes former Google strategist James Williams about what he classifies as three types of focus. 1.

I’ve been to many concerts in my life.

As a certified typewriter person, of course I’d be interested in Marcin Winchary’s magnificent book Shift Happens: A Book About Keyboards.

We were heading out the door to meet some friends at a playground and our six year old was rarin’ to go.

An ongoing series The Naked Gun (2025).

An ongoing series I think I might have found the most Chad thing on the internet: a database of the most obscure words in movies.

The other day this line popped into my head: When despair for the world grows in me It’s the opening line of the Wendell Berry poem “The Peace of Wild Things”.

The sequence of events this morning: The boys were chasing the little rainbows coming from our window prism I made a reference to the Muppets song “Rainbow Connection” I decided to put the version from the 2011 movie The Muppets on the speaker Which led to

In what’s becoming an accidental yearly tradition, here’s a selection of creatures big and small I’ve captured.

It always blows my mind when I see people of all ages biking around with no helmets on.

Derek Thompson on why science is a special kind of faith: We owe our electric age to scientists who were crazy, ignorant, or both.

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Originally published at Cinema Sugar.

That’s me at our local No Kings rally back in June.

Fellow millennial Chloé Hamilton on how millennials became uncool: In recent years, millennials, the former hip young things that once seemed so cutting edge when cast side-by-side with the out-of-touch baby boomers and the rather nondescript generation X,

Gracy Olmstead is back with another excellent issue of her Granola newsletter, this time on mundanity, the mind, and AI: While doing the mundane, we lose ourselves in process and place.

Mandy Brown with a barnburning breakdown of what “AI” is and isn’t: “Artificial intelligence” is not a technology.

An ongoing series Dug this history of album art.

Oliver Milman writing for Noema on the cult of the American lawn: “The American lawn is a thing, and it is American, deeply American,” Paul Robbins, an expert in environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of the book “Lawn…

Continuing my unofficial series on problematic parenting clichés, there’s one I’ve heard a few times recently and must address: “Little kids, little problems.

Ross Barkin ponders what kids of today lack compared to their 20th century predecessors: When I consider the geniuses of that era—or any, really, before the last ten years or so—I think of time.

An ongoing series Tia Keobounpheng’s really cool and colorful weavings inspired by geometry and Finnish/Sami heritage.

We underwent several significant home improvement projects recently.

We have one of those all-in-one turntables that plays vinyl, CDs, Bluetooth, and the radio.

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An ongoing series Black Bag.

Richard Polt typecasting about why we need typewriters in our age of AI and authoritarianism: When you choose to write with a typewriter, you are quixotically, nobly flying in the face of the assumption that good = fast, efficient, perfect, and productive.

I just finished reading Erik Larson’s latest book The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War.

While working from home the other day I had my work laptop out at the dining table with my six year old nearby.

CJ Chilvers: According to research by Neil Patel, 59.2% of traffic to blogs is driven by SEO.

I can’t remember where I saw the recommendation, but I decided to try The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett Graff and found it a riveting read.

In what amounts to a positively glacial pace, I finally managed to fill up the small pocket Moleskine notebook I’ve been carrying around for seven years: It was given to me by my friend Jason, an artist who founded Geocommunetrics and gave it this unique…

An ongoing series This Lonely Island musical medley is a thing of deranged beauty.

Part of the This Is My series.

An ongoing series Not Xwitter.

Though I usually do a Top 10 with some honorable mentions, once this year’s list of honorable mentions creeped past 10 movies I figured why not just do a full top 20?

Happy 6th birthday to our firstborn!

During a recent songwriting session with my five year old (i.e. in the six minutes before he got distracted by something else), he improvised these lyrics while I strummed my guitar and took notes: There’s a maple tree in the meadow And every winter it’s…

There are two powerful moments in Amazon Prime’s alternate-history “what if Germany and Japan won World War II” show The Man in the High Castle that I think about a lot, especially in relation to current events.

An ongoing series What the next Beatles album could have looked like if they hadn’t broken up.

That’s one of my favorite phrases in the English language.

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Continuing my tradition of doing a presidential postmortem for the outgoing commander-in-chief (see Bush and Obama and Trump), here are my brief and bumpy thoughts on the brief and bumpy Biden era: In 2020 he was the only candidate who could beat Trump.

I’ve always enjoyed taking notes on my reading—both fiction and nonfiction—mostly to track factoids and save interesting quotes for reference.