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evidently, today’s theme involves the subconscious mind
08.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

…because I read this just after I’d posted my earlier post. It’s amazing.
This, from Human Giant, is also relevant to the subject at hand, though potentially not work-safe.
Culture, Film, criticism
moviegoing, critical responses, and responses to criticism
07.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

So I went to see The Dark Knight yesterday after work. Did I like it? That I did, though at times it seemed like a strange fusion of The Wire and The Long Halloween — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in my book. It Batman Begins factored in an homage to the character’s [...]
Art, Books, Culture, Politics
arts + periodicals
06.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The debate over the loss of arts criticism in newspapers nationwide has led to a heated debate between critics Glenn Kenny and Michael Atkinson over Atkinson’s comments in this Brooklyn Rail article. (Links for both come via The House Next Door.) Kenny weighs in on his blog Some Came Running with some harsh words regarding [...]
Culture
nostalgia can be fun
04.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The first one of these is weirdly reminiscent of Carcassonne.
Also, it made me laugh harder than I have in a long while.
Also, I really want to play Aliens vs. Ghosts now.
Books, Culture, Music
austin: the brain
03.12.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Spent much of the last four days immersed in SXSW Interactive events. Will soon need to check out more from Henry Jenkins, Alex Wright, and others. Brain feels thoroughly expanded; reading Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day — a book which feels like it encompasses the scope of everything else I’ve read/seen/experienced in the last few [...]
Culture
In the future.
09.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Things like this will leave anthropologists — space anthropologists, maybe — very baffled about the shape of our society.
Culture
“…a zoologist and self-proclaimed ‘fighter against “the snowman buffs’”
08.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Via Scott comes this news story from, oh yes, Pravda.
It’s about water mammoths.
Books, Culture, Politics
01.30.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Jeff Sharlet edits The Revealer, a website that I find pretty much essential; it covers religion in media, and its perspective is unlike anything else out there, I’d say. Sharlet now has a blog; one entry of said blog focuses on the issues of Daredevil written by Ann Nocenti. These floored me when [...]