I want to update my blog but my eyes are sore and even while typing this sentence my mind wandered twelve times. Where to? No idea. I will be crawling into bed when I finish this. So I have here a quote from Juxtapoz, a magazine I discovered in Border’s yesterday. (I was enticed by [...]
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A Quote
Posted in Musings, Reads, tagged Miss Van, Quote, Juxtapoz, art on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Crunk Mouse Potato Zombie
Posted in Reads, tagged Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Crunk, Dave Eggers, Gawker, Merriam-Webster's, mouse potato, zombie on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m reading 2007’s The Best American Nonrequired Reading, a collection of (mostly) short fiction chosen by Dave Eggers’s 826 Valencia students. Included with the stories are random lists of silly stuffs collected from an assortment of magazines published throughout the past year. Best American Six-Word Memoirs, Best American Personals from Around the World, Best American [...]
Minimalist Poetry ?
Posted in Musings, Reads, tagged lighght, minimalist poetry, red on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was reading the latest issue of the New York Times Book Review when I came across this review of Aram Saroyan’s collection of minimalist poetry. Minimalist poetry? Hmph. Intrigued, though skeptical, because I know how I feel about minimalist writing (ick) but I think poetry is sometimes pretty. So I read [...]
Utilitarians Have Brain Damage
Posted in Musings, Reads, tagged dark matter, ethics, mind, morality, science, scienctific american mind, utilitarian on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Utilitarianism: an ethical philosophy that champions the welfare of the majority over the individual.
There is an article in the most recent issue of Scientific American Mind titled: “When Morality is Hard to Like: How do we juggle evidence and emotions to make a moral decision.”
Scientists have located an area of the brain that has an [...]
Reading Thomas Pynchon
Posted in Reads, tagged Thomas Pynchon, V on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s one huge bleep! of a problem. One that I’m struggling with as I read V, Thomas Pynchon’s first novel.
Progress is slow, you can’t zoom through pages expecting a story to bite you in the ass- because it won’t. New characters popping up, jumbled in period references and time jumps from 1890s Egypt to Italy [...]
Breakfast of Oxytocin
Posted in Reads, tagged breakfast, Champions, Dwayne, Hoover, Kilgore, of, Oxytocin, Robots, Trout, Vonnegut on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions, science fiction author Kilgore Trout (and Vonnegut alter-ego) writes a novel that proclaims all humanity is really robots.
Robots?
Crazy Dwayne Hoover, at the mercy of his “bad chemicals” speed reads Trout’s novel. It tells him he is the only real person, the only being with free will. Everyone [...]
Spry, baby!
Posted in Reads, tagged Magazine, SPRY on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Get your Spry on!
Spry Magazine has officially launched! Check it out here.
Books Books Books!
Posted in Reads, tagged Fair, Printer's, Row on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the Printer’s Row Book Fair a couple Saturdays ago. And my, what a site to behold. From a half block away, we (myself, Chris, and Anthony) saw the tops of white tents. Ah, the books! And little did I know just how many books, how many tents, how many blocks this book [...]
Sex or Chocolate ?
Posted in Reads, tagged chocolate, I'd Rather Eat Chocolate, Joan, Loh, Sandra, Sewell, sex, Sex and the City, She's Just Not Into You, Tsing, Women Prefer Food to Sex with Their Husbands on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was putzing around the Internet one day at work and decided to visit The Atlantic Monthly website. There, I stumbled across the Politics Host who posed a couple questions about Sandra Tsing Loh’s article from the March 2007 issue “She’s Just not into You: Women Prefer Food to Sex with Their Husbands- and That’s [...]
The God in Flight
Posted in Reads, tagged The God in Flight, Wilhelm von Gloeden on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“This book is just…ah…her prose…it’s..it’s… just beautiful,” my normally articulate, witty friend Jessica was reduced to nonsensical sighs as she struggled for the right words to describe Laura Argiri’s God in Flight.
“You have to read it,” she concluded, thrusting me the 478-page novel with a photograph taken by Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden on the [...]
