Archive for February, 2008
Prof. Steven Shaviro posted on his blog a few days ago a brief meditation on Daniel Day-Lewis’ (now Oscar-winning) performance in There Will be Blood, responding to Salon’s rather scathing review of said performance. Quite a fascinating post really, and one which linked to and generated a number of very interesting comments. Definitely worth taking [ READ MORE ]
Ah, the humble cigarette. It’s Nature’s little way of exacting revenge on Europe for the whole smallpox-blanket thing in times of yore, a wondrous little abstract machine for killing off people with little interest in living. (And don’t get your hackles up already. I’ve had a family member die of lung cancer just like the [ READ MORE ]
Essentially Emily is a new blog by Emily Brill, the newly-thin ’socialite’ daughter of Steven Brill, the erstwhile founder of multiple defunct enterprises you’ve likely never heard of. Perhaps you remember his ‘media watchdog’ magazine, Brill’s Content, if you’ve got a maddening memory for the irrelevant like myself. Excited yet? I hope not. This should be [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a fun little discussion to take a look at, from the blog of Kirk Cameron’s ‘Way of the Master’ sidekick, Ray Comfort. I came across it through pure serendipity, because it’s linked back on the same CNN page from the article I wrote about last night. Fundamentalist religion is a fascinating thing. It’s great for [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been reading and enjoying a bit of Paul Feyerabend lately, so I was interested to hear that there was a recent controversy involving this anarchic thinker and our peculiar current pope Ratzinger, or Benedict, or whatever. How could this be? Well, it’s not difficult to see where the difficulty might arise. Although Feyerabend is [ READ MORE ]