I’ve been reading Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan lately. It’s good stuff.
Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking about the coming primary election. Yes I live under a rock culturally speaking but I do read the Economist and the LA Times pretty frequently and I regularly interact virtually with people who read news from all sorts of places. [...]
Entries from January 2008
Positive thinking.
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
The United States government’s valuation of higher education
January 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I was just reading something about the state of the union address last night that quoted the line:
“We have seen how Pell Grants help low-income college students realize their full potential. Together, we’ve expanded the size and reach of these grants. Now let us apply that same spirit to help liberate poor children trapped in [...]
An eye for an eye, for ratings.
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Last weekend I was feeling kind of crappy and decided I’d curl up on the couch and watch some stupid TV. The problem with this plan, of course, was that we don’t have cable, a tivo, or any of the other technologies that allow some sort of control over the stupidness of the available [...]
Stating the obvious
January 13th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m in the process of switching this blog over to a self-hosted word press blog. I might even start writing in it regularly.
So you know, under construction, blah, blah, content coming soon, blah, blah. Etc.
Tags: general
The Storyteller’s Daughter: One Woman’s Return to Her Lost Homeland
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Rattle : Poetry for the 21st Century Anniversary Issue Interview with Philip Levine (Winter 1998 Vol 4 no 2)
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster