Jon Bois’ REFORM! Bois also criticizes the whole practice of pigeonholing voters into two established categories, of forcing people to have to reduce themselves, essentialize their political views. He criticizes the aforementioned political compass charts. It is reminiscent of Edouard Glissant’s idea of the ‘right to opacity.’ Bois destroys and humiliates this essentialization, this hijacking […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
The sun goes down alone
Sunday, November 3, 2024
A Deadhead Sticker on a Cadillac: Don Henley’s ‘The Boys Of Summer’ at 40 Instead of the counterculture being a metaphor for lost love in ‘The Boys Of Summer’, therefore, the lost love is a metaphor for the counterculture.
Universe 25
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Universe 25, 1968–1973 Writing in a report summary in 1979, Calhoun noted that “no single area of intellectual effort can exert a greater influence on human welfare than that contributing to better design of the built environment.” Universe 25: The Mouse “Utopia” Experiment That Turned Into An Apocalypse […] the experiment design has been criticized […]
another day, another reason to distrust
Monday, December 25, 2023
[why am i posting Serious Stuff at 7:25 am on Xmas Day? well i could explain why i’m up, and it isn’t because i’m excited about my presents. maybe i can explain why i have nothing better to do, even. but for now, i just was surfing a bit, while waiting for the oven to […]
Power laws
Friday, December 8, 2023
Million Dollar Murray by Malcolm Gladwell Solving problems that have power-law distributions doesn’t just violate our moral intuitions; it violates our political intuitions as well. It’s hard not to conclude, in the end, that the reason we treated the homeless as one hopeless undifferentiated group for so long is not simply that we didn’t know […]
a Grammy would be nice, though
Friday, November 10, 2023
Are We Finally Ready to See Neutral Milk Hotel for What It Really Was? Many of that period’s acclaimed songwriters professed to be allergic to the concept of fame. Mangum just meant it.
Joe Matt
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
a letter from joe matt Here’s where’s I’m compelled to impart what I consider an important life lesson– If you’re lost, career-wise, and haven’t a clue what to do wit your life–I think it’s crucial to metaphorically “sit perfectly still and do absolutely nothing” for as long as possible. Jobs, friends–just about anything could be […]
Education
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Dear Student Milgram was ultimately denied tenure because the ethics of his experiment were rightfully questioned. Still, Milgram’s experiment has been continually re-created. Perhaps, what is most telling is not Milgram’s results, but the fact that the experiment continues to be repeated and debated and supported and refuted. When faced with an oppressive authority figure, […]
