This just in for those of you who, like me, tend to lag behind the times ( Read more... )

Maybe I'm just oblivious, but I don't recall reading or hearing anyone talking about how things will be different. No one seems inclined to live differently. Maybe, in the wake of Virginia Tech, we've finally come to admit that we don't want to change. We want to keep living like we were, because god damn it was good enough. So we can ignore ( Read more... )

Kurt Vonnegut died. The world could use more humanists like him.

It seems Dave Karraker of Sony's ominously titled Corporate Communications has been watching too much 24. Regarding his (extremely short-lived) decision to blackball the gaming blog Kotaku, "I take absolutely no joy in sending you this note, but given the situation you have put me into, I have no choice."

The New Yorker has an interesting article ( Read more... )

Time for some shameless self-promotion:

Tomorrow Night, Wednesday, February 28th at 8 pm, come see:
For Greater Consciousness opening up for the brilliant
Endless Mike and the Beagle Club from Johnstown, and the somewhat famed
Little Brazil
Only $6. While supplies last.

Kalon is playing on Advanced Calculus, Monday, March 5, from 9 to 10 PM on ( Read more... )

Just now, I finished Joe Meno's most recent novel, which I find as puzzling as its title implies and somehow feels like the right thing to have read today ( Read more... )

Um, shit?

Whether or not it's a natural cycle or one whose fault is entirely my own, I seem to live in a series of recurring patterns, the latest of which is coming to a head. In a good way, I assure you ( Read more... )

Perhaps there is hope, after all.

A disgusting waste of your tax dollars. Who here wants to fund a blatantly religious message with little basis on what actually worksThe Bush administration. But I suppose it's too much to ask rationality of a man who launched a "crusade" to spread democracy in the Middle East ( Read more... )