Category Archives: Various and Sundry

A Portrait of the Artist as a Cultural Surrogate:

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Steve

Tim Kreider: Unalloyed honesty is the iridium of the information economy — vanishingly rare, and therefore precious. We don’t respect people like Louis C.K. or George Saunders because of their credentials; it’s because they’re among the few people in public … Continue reading →

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Genre and Gender: Metal Version

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Steve

The other day the A.V. Club (in the guise of Jason Heller) posted “Black Sabbath, Dust, and the myth of the ‘metallectual’” in response to an ill-conceived and condescending WSJ article/post. Buried in the comments user ‘username too long’ submitted … Continue reading →

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Good: Escher and Blog … an Infernal Golden Opportunity, or: Welcome to the Wonderful World of High Technology

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Steve

The blog post is titled “3D Print the Impossible! Turning Escher Drawings into Read 3D Models“. As the first paragraphs states, “The researchers […] have used their own Objet 3D printer to re-create the impossible Escher Drawings as real, tangible … Continue reading →

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2013.03.27: Sugar Rush!

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Steve

Oh. My. It’s like Feb. 14th all over again … but better! Milk chocolate? Check. Dark chocolate? Check.

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2013.03.25: “Goopta… is god.”

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Steve

… quoth Ratfinkovich. “In 1979, Onan Goopta molted his earthly encumbrance to pursue his Selfisophical research in another dimension. That means, he died of prostate cancer.”

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2013.03.24: My day off

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Steve

I’ll consider this my day of rest. I have little to report, to communicate, or to reflect upon at the moment.

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2013.03.23: March Madness … indeed!

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Steve

And it rained today. And rained and rained. We got in some quality tv-together-time (T3).

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2013.03.22: A Day Off, or finally immanentizing the Eschaton.

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Steve

Some reading, little work, some pain. The day in review.

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2013.03.21: 3-2-1-Contact!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Steve

… is the secret … the moment when everything happens … is the answer … the reason why everything happens. Let’s make contact.

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2013.03.20: “The Pathetic is Only Aesthetic Insofar As It is Sublime”

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Steve

— Fr. Schiller, “On the Pathetic” We rewatched all but the last twenty minutes of “Kontroll” last night after our rotation (we finished it today). Thereafter I put on “Clerks”, silently, in the background while sitting in the office and … Continue reading →

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