Oh no - graduate school! I was revising a paper about how everything bad (but also good I guess) in today's world is basically traceable to Romanticism. I had the thought, "I want this to be real" - I mean, if I could see, all the time, in a tangible, incontestable way, how "intellectual history" - bold, fascinating theses (as mine clearly are) - ( Read more... )

If any of my readers ever feel the need to: discuss the philosophy of being a hacker with minimal to no reference to computer programming (e.g. "as a representative of this maligned group - maligned especially in the media and popular culture, slow to grasp philosophical concepts - I may venture to say that a hacker is someone who is ANALYTICAL OF ( Read more... )

I had lunch yesterday at a place of greatness, and now only unreal memories remain to me - yet, more real than this chair I now sit upon, more real than what fleeting culinary pleasures I may derive from this, the mortal world, the in-between world. There just aren't establishments like "The Golden Corral" in California, ones that for a mere $6.29 ( Read more... )

Hey I am in the bay area until June 1st, call 512-934-1797 for a good time

More of the comic will soon be scanned. The actual "story" of the individuals on whom the characters are based - it's becoming increasingly clear to me - is much more interesting and probably complicated than these caricatures - these caricatures are just the beginning of something that's still, uh, unfolding and is still not fully clear (will it ( Read more... )

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The small print made larger resolution necessary. Also a list of "Dramatis Personae" is now available. This comic is getting Intense, everyone, with an important philosophical debate between two of the main characters ( Read more... )

I totally just bought a print from the series "Dogs Playing Poker" on ebay, in order to give my apartment the additional touch of class that it needs. The one I really want though is, by the same artist, dogs engaged in Masonic ritual. I also need a bust of Goethe and an elk's head, of course, and a whole series of Dutch landscape prints, and still ( Read more... )

Page 5 of "Gnomes from Underground" is on the internet. This thing is alarmingly slow to do, what with all of my other, apparently, numerous commitments, but it will be finished. This is a story that needs to be told. Yes and some of the dialogue is still hard to read but I will improve this in future pages ( Read more... )

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There is another reason I stopped writing in this journal, which is that I still have this sick habit - that I know I have mentioned before - of looking for hours at what I had written after I had written it, rereading choice sentences again and again (I get this way with some of my email as well), reading all the comments and appreciating the main ( Read more... )