I just sat in on a lecture by Stephen H Schneider on Global Warming, Political Policy, and the common disconnects in mass media and public epistemology. After talking with him afterwords he joked about people hitting him up for jobs. I laughingly said "yeah and if you have any advice about graduate programs I'm all ears" He paused, looked back ( Read more... )

So its been over a year since i did anything here. That's what I get for clearing my history bar.....out of sight out of mind. Hello to everyone. Its been a hermetic year and I will likely continue this stint indefinitely. My brain is tired. Vacations are never restful. I spent all day yesterday cleaning cat cages for a local shelter, before ( Read more... )

So anyone else hear that new orleans has a new artist.

NOLA is infected with Banksy!

and I found a new one!

I think listening to Sweeney Todd to much has managed to help shape a paper. The hollow and hypocritical nature of Justice touted by a society of thumbed and tongued beasts brutalizing themselves and everything around them. Maybe smashing pumpkins for the final draft ( Read more... )

Woke up late this morning ( Read more... )

WTUL has become a major part of my audio life over the last several months.
The DJ is playing Chomsky's Discourse on Clinton and NAFTA between Jazz sets. That is so sexy.
Better still the rain is fading to occasional rolls of thunder.

I've spent the last two days at work flirting with art teachers Well flirting as much as one can while cheerfully pointing out how society is fucked up, especially starbucks. It always makes the time fly by at work ( Read more... )

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My grandparents live in a small town in the mountains of Virginia. I lived there briefly as a child and saw it as beautiful and pastoral surrounded by the Appalachians which i lovingly thought of as "my blue mountains." Most of my youth was spent in cities. My urban experiences allowed me to condescendingly call it "the town time forgot" ( Read more... )

Pre Modern ( Read more... )