Um. Help.

After receiving back a paper prospectus for a graduate seminar in sociology that I’m taking this semester, I noticed that my professor had written in the margins a reference to an article in Science that he apparently thought relevant to the ideas I happened to be outlining, essentially about how clouds of meanings sometimes emerge [...]

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It sounds fantastic

I’m working on logistics for a College-hosted conference right now, and it’s chewing up my time pretty much the way Cloverfield chewed up Manhattan. It’s been a good professional learning experience, but utterly exhausting - hence a complete inability to blog or write coherently nowadays.
In any event, I was reading the Onion on my [...]

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Movie Vault: Cloverfield, or Razed Manhattan

Dude!
Dude!
Uh, WTF?
OMG!
OMG!!!!
Uh, I don’t feel so good.
WTF?
OMG!
OMG!!
Uh, it’s something terrible.
Why is this happening to me?!
Roar!
The end. ‘Nuff said.

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Saturday night music nostalgia

I had a minor madeleine moment last night, when I noticed while waiting for a friend at a bank that ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ ‘ by the Spencer Davis Group was being piped into the room. This set off a paroxysm of nostalgia for Steve Winwood’s early music, even though I must have heard Gimme Some [...]

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The World without Us

I’ve just finished reading Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us, and found it to be a wonderfully written book - an immensely enjoyable read, a true page turner (the companion web site to the book is here). As the title of the book suggests, the narrative revolves around a seemingly simple hypothetical question: what would [...]

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