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Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer ENTRYURL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477715/ viaName: viaURL: TIME: 09:02:42 //--> I was not expecting to write this post. Last night Pam, my mother, and I went to see This Is It at the...
Writer
This morning, I finished reading "Those Who Write, Teach” by David Gessner, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, who discusses the effect of academic teaching (Creative Writing) on writers. In addition to being an excellent read,...
Aphasia
I was going to wait to write something about David Foster Wallace’s death, but after reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s comment about him in the New York Times I understood that I have something to say now. She had said that DFW’s...
What Bloggers Hate
Bloggers hate when a blogger whose blog they have to look down their cultured noses to see gets a low six-figure book advance....
Name Goes Here
November, last month, is the month where I write the least. Nothing intentional. It's just that my brooding character lends itself to contemplation in my month of nativity. All the big questions: who am I? Why are we here? Where...
Editorial Board of Ohio University's The Post Thinks Racism Is Funny
Photo of Chris Yonker(Image source) On 7 September 2007, The Post, a student newspaper funded by Ohio University, published an editorial by Chris Yonker titled "Broad Stripes and Bright Stars" which features, among other things, a photograph of Yonker striking...
Chump Change
In June, they were calling it the God Phone. On Thursday, it was the Chump Phone. — "iPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut"Katie Hafner and Brad Stone The first two sentences of Katie Hafner and Brad Stone's "iPhone...
The Twilight of Capitalism
Introduction: Zombie NationIn the last decade, zombies have taken a place of cultural prominence that in some ways is incongruous with their low culture origins. Among other things, this essay accounts for this increase in scholarly interest by examining the...
Spider-Face
--> This morning between midnight and 02:00 Eastern, I saw Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. 1 The film weaves together storylines from the Spider-Man comic book and graphic novel sagas (both largely unfamiliar to me).2 One story arc in the Spider-Man...
Stupid Me
Before getting yesterday carried away by a gushy, embarrassing tide of love for my former and future loves, I started with the observation thatEarlier this week I made a push to begin (I always begin at the beginning) my first...
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