The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: occupation

  • Dara Vandor’s Pax Americana: A Review

    Dara Vandor’s Pax Americana: A Review

    What she produces is cerebral and startling. A bone-chilling political commentary.

  • Twenty Years of Bridgetending

    And I’m still enjoying the view.

  • Absentee Colonialism: A Fable

    You occupy a land that was already a home to others.

  • Dodo Bird Jobs

    This isn’t the first time engineers have looked into automating one of my drawbridges, and it won’t be the last. People don’t like the idea of paying bridgetenders when they spend the bulk of their time “doing nothing.” These automation ideas generally do not come to fruition, because it’s very easy to get killed on…