I love teaching, reading, writing, and the on-going collective haggle known as "study."
For recreation and relaxation, I like to travel, cook, rollerblade, and juggle.
6 ball Juggling, two ways
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I like to meet people who have well-built libraries, who enjoy travel, and who love ideas and learning. People who enjoy any of the following ideas:
"Whatever the self describes, describes the self."--Jakob Bohme
"Many 'observations' are but implications of the particular terminology in terms of which the observations are made. In brief, much that we take as observations about reality may be but the spinning out of possibilities implicit in our particular choice of terms." --Kenneth Burke
"To exist is to plagiarize."--Cioran
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I am saying."--Baba Ram Dass
"Any interpretation which is to contribute understanding must already have understood what is to be interpreted." --Martin Heiddegger
Douglas Hofsteader puzzles: "What would this sentence be like if it were not self-referential?"
"Peaches are too good to act as words; we are too much interested in peaches themselves. But little noises are the ideal conveyers of concepts, for they give us nothing but their meaning."--Susanne K. Langer
"Expressive operations take place between thinking language and speaking thought; not, as we thoughtlessly say, between thought and language.†--Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"We always express our thoughts with the words that lie at hand… we have at any moment only the thought for which we have at hand the words."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"The collision of two galaxies and the salivation of Pavlov's dog, different as they are, are far more alike than either is like the simplest act of naming. Naming stands at a far greater distance from Pavlov's dog than the latter does from a galactic collision."--Walker Percy
"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest." --Bertrand Russell
Lee Thayer asks us: "And what shall we say of that which doesn't exist until we say it ?"
"We have to be something before we can know anything. And when we have become something...the something we can know is less than the something we have become."-- Allen Wheelis
And,...I always like to meet fellow MEDIA ECOLOGISTS:
How about some Marshall McLuhan?
How about some:
Eric McLuhan
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Phish, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Soul Coughing, Beck, Buckwheat Zydeco, Jerry Garcia, Eric Burdon, India.Arie, John Lee Hooker, Dusty Springfield, Sarah Vaughan, Barry White, The Exploited, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Blind Faith, Canned Heat, Reverent Horton Heat, Annie Lennox, Ray Charles, Ravi Shankar, Hinda Hoffman, Joe Cocker, Sarah Brightman, Hot Tuna, Aretha Franklin, Rush, Johnny Socko, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Gipsy Kings, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Traffic, Roger Waters, Tom Waits, Black Sabbath, Mickey Hart, Rusted Root, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Buckshot LeFonque, Frank Zappa, among many others.
Some more music if you'd like:
Antonia's Line, The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, The Holy Grail, The Jerk, Altered States, Gattica, Mindwalk, The Island, Idiocracy, Ruthless People, Other People's Money, The Wall, A Little Night Music, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives, Fierce Creatures, Austin Powers, Twilight Zone: the Movie, pi, The Lion in Winter, Time Bandits, Dreamscape, Rooster Cogburn, Princess Bride, Shrek, A Day at the Races, Star Trek I, II, III, IV, V, etc., Duck Soup, Waking Life, Naked Lunch, A Taste of Cherry, all the Star Wars, Battle Beyond the Stars, among many others.
How about some pictures from Greece 2006 instead?
My own work is a multi-disciplinary integration of, roughly, five scholarly traditions: dramatistic rhetoric (Kenneth Burke, Erving Goffman, and, Ernest Becker), existential phenomenology (Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau Ponty, early Mikhail M. Bakhtin as well as John Stewart, Drew Leder, and, Calvin O. Schrag), interactional semiotics (Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Walker Percy, and, Anthony Wilden), humanistic communication theory, (Suzanne K. Langer, John Dewey, Martin Buber, and, Lee Thayer), and finally, the New York, St. Louis & Toronto schools of media ecology (Marshall McLuhan, Walter J. Ong, Eric Havelock, Neil Postman, and David Olson).
Other scholars I enjoy and like to talk about are: Friedrich Nietzsche, David Bohm, Georg Simmel, Juliet Schor, Bill McKibben, Morris Berman, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Seneca, Martha Nussbaum, Joseph Campbell, Carlos Castaneda, Alfred Korzybski, Wendell Johnson, William James, John Dewey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Goodman, Edmund Carpenter, Dorothy Lee, Leonard Shlain, Stephen A. Tyler, David K. Reynolds, Paul Carse, William Barrett, Alphonso Lingis, Hans Jonas, Edward Casey, Michael Zimmerman, Hubert Dreyfus, and many others.
For more of my favorite books and "Essential Essays" on communication theory, please see my suggested readings blog.
Epictetus , Robert Maynard Hutchins , Antoine de Saint-Exupery , and, anyone else who understands the art of cultivating soul.
Other ItemsWhy you should not like "Forrest Gump"
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Existentialism: Create your Destiny.
More Travel PicturesPictures from Teotihuacan 2007:
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Juggling Gifs & Link........... ...............
a link to the Juggling Lab JuggleMaster .
A link to vintage t.v.
As far as tv goes, how about some CLASSIC CARTOONS at