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About Me

"You must cooperate, Ms. Sherman. It is expected.""Something's saying something." "Just because his head is doesn't mean his limbs are." "He eats without the assistance of a feeding tube. He has regained some movement in his arms. When he speaks, usually with only a word or two, he is engaged in the conversation. He recently recited the first 16 words of the Pledge of Allegiance."

My Interests

Movies:

I like whatever movies show Kyle MacLachlan riding a giant space worm.

Books:

Yildiz Heisst Stern: a German teen-novel about a young Turkish girl facing persecution at the hands of racist skinheads; a real page-turner.Nietzsche and Metaphor: student of Deleuze on the epistemological problems of metaphor; dry.The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: last acolyte of the Frankfurt school cites Arendt and Carl Schmitt strangely often; extremely dry, yet still fascinating.

My Blog

Untitled

Regardless of how distasteful, dishonest, etc. many people now find Hillary Clinton, you've got to respect this: ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:54:00 PST

"Therefore"

"Therefore," "Hence,"--the carrot that draws along the logical ass.
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 09:45:00 PST

Liability

Every aspect of our lives has been rendered calculable. The irony that the old existential conundrum has been successfully answered--as for instance when the family of a woman killed by a falling I-b...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:53:00 PST

Participatory Blog

In the spirit of classically crass band names like JFKFC, I offer a few suggestions of my own: Lee Harvey Oswald SpenglerFleetwood MacbethLenny Bruce DickinsonOther suggestions welcome....
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:00:00 PST

For Andy

A syllogism courtesy of Hayden White: War is Hell.Hell is other people. Ergo: War is other people.
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:26:00 PST

For a Radical Journalism

My alarm is set to NPR, so when I wake up in the morning I hear the news. I generally find this better than trying to read the paper, because I can do other stuff while I listen, i.e. the dishes, and...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:35:00 PST

I Now Get Paid For Not Driving

That's right. To the tune of $234 a year, or a whopping $19 per month, the kind folks at Stanford will actually pay you to not drive. I also get twelve hours of free rental cars, so as to get my gro...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:58:00 PST

Weekend Update/Let Your Freek Flag Fly/Almost Cut My Hair/Etc

In a perfect world these two covers would exist: 1: Elmer Fudd doing "The Long and Winding Road" 2: Def Leopard's drummer doing "Moulty"Living here is not so bad, and here's why: My apartment, aside f...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

Addiction/Paranoia

Usually I'll only post a blog if there seems to be something to say. I'll generally try to write something, rather than just do a cut and paste exercise because I think it's more enjoyable to read, m...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:14:00 PST

Perpetual Jive

"I could live with you in another world I could live with you in another world I could live with you in another world Not this one."
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:58:00 PST