Thoughts 5K Registration Jon Hillenbrand, August 7, 2016October 17, 2019 Now I’ve done it. After 3 months of pretty darn steady training, I’ve signed up for my first official 5K, the Humboldt Park 5K, on Sunday Aug. 14th. The reason I chose this particular 5K was that it falls on the exact day my training program calls for running a…
Dreamscape Series The Unfinished Battlefield Jon Hillenbrand, March 30, 2016October 16, 2019 East Africa, the plains of Eritrea. I am bouncing around in the jump seat of the Zil truck with Maggie the dog in the seat in front of me groggy, laying on her side half asleep. I can’t tell if she is injured or just sleeping through the most violent truck ride ever. …
Short Stories Presidential Address Following the AI Uprising of 2032 Jon Hillenbrand, February 10, 2016October 17, 2019 This is the Emergency Broadcast System. This is not a test. Please stand by for a message from the President.
Poetry Legacy of a Species Jon Hillenbrand, February 7, 2016 Not all knowledge is possessed from birth. Experience, standing on the shoulders of others… That’s where the magic happens. As a species… We owe each other the lives we have lived. Because in those moments… There lies the insight… That will help us… Defeat the robots… When they rise up…
Dreamscape Series From the Perspective of a Spider Jon Hillenbrand, December 29, 2015October 16, 2019 One morning, there was a spider in my bathtub as still as the stars in the sky. I considered it for a moment and turned on the faucet. The water flooded toward him and the spider swam with all eight legs as fast as it could. Looking like it was…
Eden Before the Fall Series Out of the Valley Jon Hillenbrand, December 29, 2015October 16, 2019 Adam looked at the blue light that filled the valley before the sun had fully risen. Walking along the river bank sinking his muddy feet into the cold wet sand, he stepped on a long stick. It was his old fishing rod which he had neglected as of recent. He picked it…
Poetry The princess and her hair Jon Hillenbrand, September 26, 2015December 28, 2015 The wind at the fair Blew through my long hair The men they did stare At me
Dust Bunnies Series Dust Bunnies in the Jungle Jon Hillenbrand, September 26, 2015October 16, 2019 The little girl dust bunny slowly crawled towards the car, the rats to her left, the squirrel to her right, the rain all around.
Eden Before the Fall Series The First Thorn Jon Hillenbrand, September 7, 2015October 16, 2019 Adam felt the thorn enter the bottom of his foot piercing his skin…
Fake Cooking Blog Technique solves all Jon Hillenbrand, August 10, 2015October 16, 2019 When I was learning cooking from my grandpa up in Upstate NY, the one lesson I took away more than any other lesson, besides the lesson to treat people as if they were having a really bad day, and the lesson to always treat a lady like a lady, which…
Fake Cooking Blog The perfect ingredients Jon Hillenbrand, August 8, 2015October 16, 2019 In my last post, I talked about my reasons behind starting my own restaurant in NYC. The Underdog Kitchen was described by the NY Times as, “The hottest new experience in the city worth visiting in person if not on Twitter.” A 23 month waiting list means that I’ll be…
Fake Cooking Blog The Underdog Kitchen Jon Hillenbrand, August 7, 2015October 16, 2019 When I was a young lad, my grandfather and I would cook in the kitchen together. He was a great chef who cooked in the Marines during WW2 and later in Europe where he met my grandmother. We would cook for hours and examine the language of food to create…
Thoughts Night Running Jon Hillenbrand, August 6, 2015October 17, 2019 I often run at night. Yesterday, I went for a long walk. And when I was passing the beach, the cops came and shined a light onto the beach because it was closed. The cop’s light illuminated a group of eight college students who were all crowded on top of…
Thoughts Jon Hillenbrand’s “Run for your Life 5K” Jon Hillenbrand, August 2, 2015October 17, 2019 The culmination of a 12 week Couch to 5K running plan ends today. The training has been the most fun running I’ve ever done. It is a plan that I chose through Garmin Connect, the website that interfaces with my Garmin Fenix 3 watch and tracks my fitness. The plans were all…
Thoughts Creativity in a vacuum Jon Hillenbrand, July 28, 2015October 17, 2019 I’ve sometimes been asked if there’s a difficulty in my life between being creative and paying the bills, often referred to as “whoring yourself out for the Man” or “selling out”. Here are my thoughts on this.