Dittohead Forever: Rush Limbaugh Dropped From Bid for NFL Rams

Yesterday Dave Checketts, the executive leader of a group bidding for the N.F.L. Rams, announced Rush Limbaugh would be dropped from the group. Writing for The New York Times, Judy Battista reports that once word leaked last week that...

Posted by mistersquid on October 15, 2009 11:09 AM

A Late-Summer Afternoon With Boot Camp

Despite having done so much work on my new computer late this morning I found myself inventing more things for myself to do. I started looking over the 79 gigabytes of data (400,000 items) I had transferred from DVD...

Posted by mistersquid on September 8, 2009 5:50 PM

Drugged Up Zombie Laborers

A video essay about the drug Burundanga reminds me of the (much more authoritative) work Wade Davis did regarding "Ethonobiology of the Haitian Zombie" (subtitle) in Passage of Darkness.1 Zombification in Haiti involves the use of a powerful neurotoxin that...

Posted by mistersquid on August 27, 2007 8:36 AM

Tommy Sweatshop

At my undergraduate alma mater, USC, the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE) staged a knit-in on the steps of the Pertusati University Bookstore. Lori White, associate vice president for Student Affairs, asked the students to relocate to Hahn plaza...

Posted by mistersquid on February 9, 2007 7:57 AM

Double Stitch

For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to follow up on my post regarding the ending of Spamland #1 (the only one I’ve as yet seen.) My argument was to have identified the retroactive constitution of subjectivity through the chain...

Posted by mistersquid on November 13, 2006 12:05 AM

Election 2006: Blue is the New Black

M. Stratton and Beth Quitslund,Liz Miller (background) Such a simple and cheesy gesture sums up the initial 2006 Election results for moderates, centrists, Democrats, and liberal educators (among others). But rather than shout out, “Democratic mandate” (whatever such a thing...

Posted by mistersquid on November 8, 2006 9:44 AM

Captalism: Now with Moxie!

I don’t watch broadcast or cable television unless I’m with someone who is bothering to do so. I don’t mean I mostly don’t watch broadcast or cable television, choosing only my favorite shows out the week’s lineup. I don’t mean...

Posted by mistersquid on April 16, 2004 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