The Demise of Naiveté

This time of year is always a mixed bag for me. I grew up in a largely Korean household which practiced no distinct holiday traditions. Christmas gift-giving was limited mainly to adults giving gifts to the children. The season...

Posted by mistersquid on December 20, 2009 9:53 AM

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...

Posted by mistersquid on September 14, 2008 9:37 AM

Brekky with Gir

There are few things worth breaking writing silence for, and this is one of them: If that’s Gir in the video, he’s a young guy with impeccable taste and smart moves. Using an eggbeater’s whine as percussion is only...

Posted by mistersquid on August 18, 2006 10:24 AM

squidGothic

Does the icon for Apple’s Preview application give you the willies like it does me? Even at the icon’s largest, the kid looks like he’s done that trick where his eyelids are folded up on themselves and now he’s wandering...

Posted by mistersquid on January 1, 2005 12:00 AM

rictus

Sometimes a cigar . . . Discredited with good reason during the rise of feminism, Freudian psychoanalytic theory and psychological models nonetheless do have their uses and insights, whatever apologies must be given and counterbalancing achieved before citing work...

Posted by mistersquid on August 31, 2003 12:26 AM