Americans love to get their bobby-soxers in a rumble; we like nostalgia at a penny a pound; we
blush Coke Red and ware Pepsi Blue: America the pre-packaged in sanitary cello fain for your
projection. Freud was a dalliance, but we prefer numbers, have left our black turtlenex in the
trunk of the Lincoln, have rounded forced and [...]
Modernism is truly dead.
All that remains are a few doddering old men worrying about their prostates and voting for Democrats because no viable Socialist candidates exist.
The Modernists have all been replaced with advertising. I’d call this postmodern because “po-mo” is too easy, but it’s also really just 3rd or 4th generation Modernism—the Modernism that eats [...]
We want to be influenced by tradition, but not bound by it.
Digital watches, such as they are, really are a pretty neat idea. As we progress toward cloning and hydro-electric interactive bullriding, we have to consider the relevancy of an analog watch. As every PDA clipped to the waist of every rayon-shirted tech-head will attest, [...]
Fragment #1
We are angry at the snow. Answer: Much tongue-swallowing, frost on the eyelids is a button purse for many mouths.
Fragment #2
Ginger, I saw you naked, and now I am scared for you. I am also scared that you are a young woman saying, “I believe it is wrong to expose your private parts.” I remember at 12 you [...]
Since the bulk of my work involves teaching freshman composition, I’m frequently confronted with the prototypical disaffected late-adolescent who finds everything boring. He is bored by politics, bored by peculiar social practices, bored by gastronomy, astronomy, theology and beer.
Yes, that’s right: today’s college freshman is even bored by beer, or claims to be anyway.
This makes [...]
Yesterday, the blogger mcsnee noted that the Bush administration’s lack of diplomatic efforts to stop the current conflict between Israel and Palestine is influenced by the President’s adherence to an apocalyptic form of conservative Christianity. And this is no doubt a big part of what is going on. But we can’t discount the power of [...]
If Bush can wage a war on an emotion, in this case, the Global War on Terror, then I can wage my own war on an emotion. I have chosen, therefore, to wage a Global War on Covetousness. Covetousness is, when you think about it, a much more damaging emotion than mere terror. I mean, [...]