I’m never sure how I can defend a critique against technology–it seems as though we have gained so much. And whenever I rant against drones or iPads (or the very device upon which I’m pecking)…
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The Reactive Consequence of Force: Whiplash as Cultural Critique
(Spoiler below) Will you listen? Let us first understand whiplash as a reactive consequence of force…but one that weakens with repetition. Further on Whiplash (The Dystopian Perfection of Whiplash), the movie starring J.K. Simmons (Daniel…
The Dystopian Perfection of Whiplash
We watched Whiplash last night. By all accounts it was an intense experience. Nerve-wracking to say the least. Perhaps triumphant in the end, but I don’t think so. Have you seen it? If not, in…
Assume Forever-War: Thoughts After Viewing Wounds of Waziristan
There is some contention that in particular cases of cancer, removing tumors, often the only treatment that can extend life by reducing the burden of carrying the disease (thus reducing its effects), actually speeds metastatic…
It Plays You: Mingus on Electric Instruments
Selections from a Charles Mingus interview from February 1972, in Mingus Speaks, by John F. Goodman Sildenafil, by inhibiting PDE5, prevents this breakdown and thus enhances the induced erectile response. buy tadalafil another treatment intervention…
Break It Up But Don’t Sell It Off
It’s quite simple to say there was, at one point in England’s history, shared or common land upon which groups of people subsisted and the method by which they managed these lands allowed for a…
UPDATE! Coming Up on Interchange: “Later also headache”
The title of this post comes from Naomi Baron’s Words Onscreen which will serve as the basis of an upcoming Interchange program. “Later also headache” was a description given by a German respondent as to…
Salt of the Earth
One of the benefits of living in Bloomington is that the University has built a superb, state of the art, movie theater. Jon Vickers is the founding director of the IU Cinema and he deserves…
Psychic Distress in Education
The sheer JOY of talking about something you love described by Donald Hall (and called “teaching”) in the essay “Coffee with Robert Graves.” (And I’ll admit that this is what has drawn me to the…
Reading For Clams
I like to read and write and talk about reading and writing. Anyone who knows me knows this already, duh. I read things on the radio occasionally and folks seem to like what I do….