The Virtues of Foreignness
Is this how it’s supposed to be? Is learning forever winding through these strange and foreign places? Is study the opposite of home? -TNC I’ve been thinking about teaching and learning quite a...
View ArticleIron Lady to Iron Throne: Westeros as an Argument for “Society”
This post contains spoilers for all books in “A Song of Ice and Fire” and the entire series to date of “Game of Thrones.” “There is no such thing as society. There are only individuals, and...
View ArticleUnder Observation
Today’s post is from a guest writer! Tom Schneider is a friend of mine. He got a 1600 on his SATs, back when that meant two perfect scores instead of three mediocre scores, and he has interesting...
View ArticleGirl Shit: Paul Feig
Today’s post is from a guest writer! Kelly Anneken is a friend of mine. Of all the irreparably shallow people I know, she has the most depth. She has lots of thoughts about lady things, and she will...
View ArticleThis Is Black Hoodie Rap
A textual collage exploring inspiration, technology, and identity. On Wednesday night I finally saw “Fruitvale Station” (not out in Australia, at least not yet). A phenomenal film; an imperfect one,...
View ArticleDaria S01xE04 —“Cafe Disaffecto”& S01xE05 —“Malled”
Today’s post is from a guest writer! Tom Schneider is a friend of mine. He got a 1600 on his SATs, back when that meant two perfect scores instead of three mediocre scores, and he has interesting...
View ArticleA Cry for Classical
Haven’t you heard? Classical music is dead. Again. Another time. I just put on “Pictures at an Exhibition” (on vinyl, no less) — “Symphony for a New World” was still spinning, restless and...
View ArticleThe Inheritance of Plunder
Sometimes facts that we’ve known for a long while can become remixed to have new meaning — an “aha” moment, such as it is, and I had one earlier today while watching the film “The Corporation”*. The...
View ArticlePride Goes Before…
Generally speaking, I don’t recommend staying up late at night by oneself to watch a television show about a serial killer. Unless that show is “The Fall.” “The Fall” is a BBC show with one...
View ArticleCome Healing
I wrote this two weeks ago. I sat on it for a bit but have decided to go ahead and put it into the world now. behold the gates of mercy/an arbitrary space and none of us deserving of the cruelty or...
View ArticleTo Be A Teacher
There’s a fascinating article in The New Yorker which discusses the notion — the contemporary American religion, perhaps — of performance improvement. The subject is introduced via a discussion of...
View ArticleA White Girl Like You
Forgive me. I have not yet fully worked this all out. But Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describes the prisoners headed to the Soviet Gulag as waves flowing underground. These waves “provided sewage disposal...
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