Archive for August, 2015
Music for waiting
So you think you’re a bad collaborator
This guy Dollard was holed up in a stockade trying not to get his ass kicked by the Iroquois Confederation when he had the brilliant idea to light up powder keg and toss it into the enemy. Unfortunately, he missed and dropped the damn thing in the stockade, blowing allies and his own men and […]
Like a man
Exhaustion and gloom pressed on him more and more heavily. Did he want someone to talk it over with? Or someone to complain to? Or just someone to have a heart-to-heart talk with, who might perhaps even show him a little pity? Of course he had read and heard that pity is a humiliating feeling: […]
So you think your PhD is a waste of time
This guy Frobisher goes the Arctic to find the Northwest passage and totally fails, but he finds some rocks that he thinks may have coal or gold or something in them. So he brings them back to good old England and somebody tells him they do indeed have gold in them, so he goes back […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading periodic reminder on the origins of the phrase “the personal is political” Egg War: Why India’s Vegetarian Elite Are Accused Of Keeping Kids Hungry Ask Polly: How Do I Make Conversation? Red flag: dude says he doesn’t like small talk
More than this
Every August my mother took my siblings and me to the Goodwill for new school clothes. She chose a few pairs of pants for each of us and a new set of church clothes, but we got to pick our own t-shirts. I loved this and could spend hours browsing the racks. It wasn’t the […]
Homosexual sex in the service of heteronormativity
no one ever asks what’s going on in white culture or what it is about white masculinity that is making this kind of sex practice possible. But that’s really precisely the question we should be asking, because white men have engaged in — straight-identified white men have engaged in — intimate or sexual encounters with […]