Archive for October, 2009
The Onion A/V club’s “my year of flops” feature examines Roman Polanski’s scary-sounding 1972 comedic romp What?, and comes up with this beautiful paragraph: Even in the Wild West world of ’70s cinema, What? is profoundly fucked-up. Polanski pops up in his free-associative bacchanal as an irritable young man known only as “Mosquito.” Why Mosquito? “They call [ READ MORE ]
I have an e-book reader (sony PRS-505), and I love it for a variety of reasons. Partly because I can pirate hard-to-find and/or expensive things, but also because I can load up journal articles, chapters downloaded from electronic resources through the library, and CC-licensed content from great sources like re.press or Cory Doctorow. I do [ READ MORE ]
Oh, my, gawd. There’s a weird temporal mishmash – chronotope, if you will – going on when you see police officers grooming horses in trailers attached to pickup trucks, parked in the financial district. [ READ MORE ]
At a small grocery store near my apartment called ‘lucky moose,’ they have a wide variety of things. Here is one which caught my eye. The item which I myself purchased showed up on the register as ’separating sack of sack.’ I will leave it for you to determine what that might be. [ READ MORE ]
With thesis bound – or at least at the bindery – and blog once again in working order, I’ve come back around to thinking about new things. Specifically, Latour, and actor-network theory, and this peculiar beast which, as Bruno himself puts it, we have to call ‘[philosophy, sociology, history, ethnography, etc.] … of science and [ READ MORE ]
… is one with which you can do this. [ READ MORE ]
‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’ is a very realistic film, inasmuch as one can plausibly imagine a child coming up with this storyline whilst playing with his toys. Actually, on second thought, a child would probably come up with something a bit more coherent. [ READ MORE ]