So two days ago, we woke up after about 3 hours of sleep so we could get out to the coffee shop and listen to Obama's inaugural speech ( Read more... )

I'm sick today, so I had time to write all this down in between naps. It's sort of a part one of my take on what I call the New Thinking, meaning those little red flags that we can see in art and culture that mean our society is changing its tune in a big way. Today I'm concentrating on a quote from The Subtle Knife, because I believe it may be ( Read more... )

Hokay. This is gonna be mean and unhelpful but hey, it's what I do best, right? I want to preface this by saying that I know perfectly honest people get had by credit card companies. I did work for a huge conglomerate in the collections sector, I know how it works.

But dammit.

Yknow, guess what, America?

I fucking told you so.

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So I have a confession to make ( Read more... )

Someone once argued that in a way, literacy acts like a sort of incurable virus; you contract it and then you're stuck with it forever, never being able to return to your previous state. Despite the negative implications the virus comparison elicits, it's true in a way. I am literate, but I can never go back to seeing letters as inscrutable lines ( Read more... )