Sorry, got busy and didn't update for 14.5 years.  In the intervening time I met my life partner,  got married, moved to Thailand, researched a mass protest movement there, became semi-fluent in Thai, returned to New York, had two wonderful children, got a job as a professor in New York, bought a home in Queens, published a book, and am overall ( Read more... )

Just sayin' sup to my livejournal peepz

I am excited to announce that I will be editing a new weekly crossword puzzle in the Onion! Starting this Wednesday. If your town has the Onion, you can get it on the newsstand! It should be online within a few weeks as well.

Apologies to those who have already received this announcement in other places.

Ben

Today I had my first day of college. It was cool. Now I have to read a book for next week - (the whole book.) My new book is called After Method, and it was published by Routledge. One of the sentences goes "to talk of gathering is to mobilise a metaphor that is similar in some ways to the bundling in the broader definition of method assemblage ( Read more... )

Chicken noodle soup. Chicken noodle soup. Chicken noodle soup with a soda besides.

It's almost fall - that means haunted house ( Read more... )

Big things coming.

Die Nationalmannschaft bested Albicelestes and I watched it happen on a television, at a restaurant eating a food ( Read more... )

Most probably I will go to the 10:40 "Wordplay" showing on Friday, the 16th. You are invited!

http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=9598&rdate=6%2F16%2F2006

Working on compliance for a politician is insanely fun. Most donors are unexceptional, but you still get to spy on their lives in great detail, from campaign contributions to affiliations to photographs to personal relationships ( Read more... )