Things That Are Missing

An incomplete list of things that should still be around and more popular.

• Cellphones with solid hardware buttons (i.e. old Nokia)
• Devices with knobs and switches that don’t need to be “programmed”: Appliances, TVs, stereo equipment.
• Wind up alarm clocks with bells
• Plain stonewash straight leg jeans made with heavier denim with triple-stitched seams
• Cars with exterior metal bumpers, two-knob stereos, and user-repairable/accessible parts
• Handwritten letters
• Goodyear welted oxfords (flat leather welt)
• The sunday paper
• Men with a code of honour
• The simpler days of the web, before FB, Twitter, iPhone, app store. It was messier, but more honest.
• Recipe cards for recipes
• Marginalia
• Waiting for stuff, and hunting around to buy music