THE SIMPLE THINGS

A surprisingly satisfying “Zen antidote to road rage” can be found at honku.org. Haiku about driving, which is exactly what this site features, are almost certain to fall into the same tedious categories, and these do. But the content surpasses expectations in part because of the predictability of the form -- like those “Jim’s Journal” cartoons floating around about 10 years ago, in which people with no expressions take four poorly drawn panels to do very little, and it’s brilliant nonetheless. Well, some were.