Ragamuffin Reunion Blues
Seven days ago was my high school reunion. Seven years ago was my high school graduation. Six years ago was LMH’s death.
Tags: Chicago, Faith Academy, high school
Why I Pay My Taxes
Dear Taxpayer, Your contribution this fiscal year was put toward the maintenance of an F-15 fighter jet, which on October 16 dropped a bomb on the town of Ramadi, in Iraq, killing, among others, Muhammed Salih Ali (age six) and Haifa Ahmed Fuad (age eight) and Saad Ahmed Fuad (age four). Little Haifa and Saad [...]
Old school anti-corporatism
Mar 17, 2008 images
Found this in Neil Leach’s The Anaesthetics of Architecture. Good ol’ fashioned feminist graffiti.
Tags: advertising, corporatism, graffiti, resistance
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Mar 16, 2008 philosophy, politics, reading
Over Spring Break I devoted myself to plowing through Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She and Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) produced a short film for the book. Her central thesis is that
Tags: Bush, capitalism, Chile, corporatism, Iraq, Katrina, war
High School Reunion Bingo
Mar 15, 2008 personal
My high school class is having our 7 year reunion in a week. I went to a conservative Christian missionary school in the Philippines, but have not really kept up with hardly any of my classmates. Much to my surprise, it appears I’ll actually be attending this reunion. It seemed only fitting that I keep [...]
Tags: Chicago, Faith Academy, high school
All Your Art Are Belong To Us
I went to Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum today, ostensibly to see Chris Jordan but mostly just because I’m a nerd.
Tags: art, Chris Jordan, Jesus, photos
“Literature is a way of (not) telling secrets”
Mar 12, 2008 personal, philosophy, writing
“If I have a taste for the secret, it clearly has to do with not-belonging; I have an impulse of fear or terror in the face of a political space, for example, a public space that makes no room for the secret.” – Jacques Derrida, A Taste for the Secret (59) We stumble in, half-drunk [...]
Tags: Derrida, existentialism, postmodernism, Sartre
Drastic changes
Mar 11, 2008 meta
Yes, things look a little different around here. I still haven’t adjusted. CSS drives me crazy, especially when using someone else’s code. I’ll continue tweaking as the days go by, let me know if you have any suggestions and/or want to help me with it.
Tags: CSS
Why I’m Not a Republican
Mar 10, 2008 politics
I stumbled across this on a Cedarville alum’s Facebook. By all accounts, the students applauding this kind of tripe in the comments appeared to actually believe it was a great testament to the virtues of being a Republican. A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her [...]
My week
Mar 1, 2008 images, movies, personal, politics, videos
It’s March! I’m going to make it through this year if it kills me. Want to know how my week went? Ok cool. On Monday Laura & I saw Barack Obama at WSU: He is a good man and he’ll be president in 11 months. On Tuesday Dennis sent me this photo: This was posted [...]
Tags: Bush, Cedars, Laura, movies, Obama, Once, pacifism, Taxi to the Dark Side, The Corporation