By: Andrew Sempere

The eternal call of the nerd: “But why?”

By: Andrew Sempere

D2020: Notes Towards An American Decameron

By: Andrew Sempere

Get deliberately lost, open every door, go where the crowd isn’t.

By: Andrew Sempere

What becomes of the content rejected from the canon?

By: Andrew Sempere

Chicago is semi-porous: even now you can traverse the layers and see the bones where the roads hit the water.

By: Andrew Sempere

Telekinesis may rattle the flatware, electricity washes your dishes.

By: Andrew Sempere

Ghosts, Zombies and Facebook. OMG.

By: Andrew Sempere

Guiteau prayed and God showed him the way: ungrateful Garfield had to die.

By: Andrew Sempere

Alone in a strange city, I was obsessively checking twitter…

By: Andrew Sempere

Sharing more by engaging less.

By: Andrew Sempere

This post is the first in a three part mini-series on digital dérive, an idea I have been playing with lately. This particular dérive first appeared in my twitter stream in February, but this is […]

By: Andrew Sempere

Sweeten your coffee a little more My banjo tune, and nothing else. Celebrate Christmas alone and come spring, we’ll count the wrinkles. I can’t write about Karel Gott properly, and I’ve tried. I can tell […]

By: Andrew Sempere

In late 2001, Soft Cell’s Marc Almond appeared with Rosenstolz on Eurovision as the guest musical artists. They performed a cover of the Klaus Nomi song Total Eclipse of the Sun. This video is an […]

By: Andrew Sempere

In naming the mechanical conveyances that carry us under our cities, I far prefer the word  subway to underground, metro, ubahn, tube, T. There is a mysticism inherent in subway that does not come through […]

By: Andrew Sempere

I have a recurring dream in which a house that I have just moved into contains a hidden panel, a door or passage that leads me to a room full of ephemera. The key element […]