Nineball

Turns out you can use an iPad as a MIDI controller for GarageBand. Pretty cool! Here's a song I made that I kind of like!

Some vaguely religious insights involving the will of God, Star Wars, and artificial intelligence at Green-Wood Cemetery.

Fiction

Linguists, Noam Chomsky, Tom Wolfe, and hand axes. Isn't it more fun if language is an invention?

In which I reveal that I'm a religious zealot at heart and then go off on the GOP, John McCain, Barack Obama, and Nicholas Kristof.

Let's talk about solitary confinement and the imaginative leap of recognizing pain in people you don't directly know.

Nineball has a new mission: it is an ongoing audition tape to replace Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes.

An improvised fictional story about manhood and Aspergers in the mid-1980s.

Who cares about being an international embarrassment, who needs hotel closets, and what's wrong with being sensitive?

Natali Rivers (natalinicole.com) joins to talk about being Geminis, pushing yourself and accepting yourself, longterm relationships, personal clothing styles, and more.