so apparently the other day, in dallas, texas (mind you, an agglomeration of 5.5 million people ( Read more... )

it's not that the world is going to hell any more than it has been going there in the past. we don't know that. it's that i know about a lot of it, and i don't have the gift of hindsight ( Read more... )

sometimes the facebook feels a little too much like voyeurism, and thus induces nausea.

and ira glass doing a pledge drive is priceless.

i love chicago.

my birthday was fabulous. hung out with jesustheatheist and e (with whom i went to ny) and m and d. jesustheatheist gave me pimm's! and l'auberge espagnol. we went to a thrift store in logan square where i found my dream ( Read more... )

this is for bgnathaleigh and pauvretoi...

i am taking a course designated PHIL 24601.

twofoursixoh ONNNNNNNNNNNNNE!

first of all ( Read more... )

i found out last night that i've been accepted to study abroad in vienna next fall, from september-december. yay! i'm very excited about vienna generally--architecture, history, opera, museums, geography, culture, etc--and also very excited to have my first taste of living in a place where it is completely legal for me to purchase and consume ( Read more... )

... and this attempt is kind of half-baked, because i don't have time to finish baking it ( Read more... )

fire at the reg (the regenstein library, the big main one). i don't know yet if it was arson or electrical but it looked electrical from where i was. smoke on floors 1-4 at least, acrid as hell. everyone was orderly getting out as soon as the alarm went off. came outside into light snow. didn't really get far enough away from it in my opinion ( Read more... )

too much empirical stuff for my mind to mull over to consider the pure concepts of the understanding. i'm so easily distracted. i need to disconnect the internet... but then i'd be disconnected from the helpful http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/kant/krvb/krvb.htmRead more... )

"Scooby-Doo is a narratological paradigm for the shift of all cultural artifacts from integrity to fragmentation," I say. "The episode "That's Snow Ghost" emulates a kind of realist tradition, the mirror traveling down the road. Then Bakhtin's 'polyphony' emerges with the addition of a chorus-Scooby-Dumb, Scrappy-Doo-who voice things the culture ( Read more... )