Theory-wise, I can cite three written works that have recently had a major impact on my thinking: Slavoj Zizek’s The Sublime Object of Ideology (of which I’ve only read about 70 pages); John Leland’s Hip: The History; and David Foster Wallace’s essay “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." These are somewhat disparate works, but especially ( Read more... )

So, I was browsing a computer repair website to find instructions for installing a new hard drive in my trusty 5-year old powerbook, when I happened to stumble upon this section of their site.

um, what the fuck?

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"United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the ( Read more... )

If you haven't yet had a chance to hear or read some of Dahr Jamail's independent coverage of the events in Iraq at the moment, I suggest you start reading his blog.

We’d already pushed our luck, so after talking to a few folks we grab lunch and head back towards home. “Let’s play a game and see how many photos we can take before we get pulled ( Read more... )

does janine ever read this? if so, you should email me.

Last night my house held a "rent" party. We got two kegs of Yuengling , told everyone we've ever met to come and bring their friends, and charged 5 bucks a cup. The result is about $200 of profit for the house, and an ungodly mess. If such a party had been held at the last house I lived in, I would have been stressed or even upset. But my current ( Read more... )

just testing out my new bloggin client, ijournal.

1. Total amount of music files on your computer:

This question has an interesting, or actually fairly uninteresting, answer. My brother, who foisted this “challenge” on me, claims to have no downloaded music files on his computer. Which would be true, except that his computer, as befits our wacky family, is actually “my” computer (my dad’s ( Read more... )

The last few days have been interesting, with a strange dual perspective on the whole inauguration thing ( Read more... )