As I finish the seventh year of my online journal I thought it best to reassess my goals for this project. Initially it was a place for my friends and family to keep up with me as I hopped about… more ›

Here’s a really great, soothing piece of music to relax to: Shalom by Bhakta. Enjoy. more ›

Just scanning the front page of The New York Times brings such joy to my world, especially when the “Quotation of the Day”–“The future, what’s that?” from an ex-hunter/gatherer who has just left the Colombian bush–complements/contrasts/conflicts/confounds the first of the… more ›

To quote comic genius Jerry Seinfield, “Who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?” Coca-Cola and “essence” of coffee?!?! I like Coke well enough (despite it being the sweet nectar of an evil corporate devil), and I… more ›

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One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are ‘still’ possible in the twentieth century is not… more ›

His lover listened to Xavier Naidoo after he left for work in the morning. It was tragic, she told him over lunch. Not knowing what else to say, she continued: It’s like a little mouth. It’s tight-fisted and arbitrary like… more ›

Shortly after noon, I submitted my term paper entitled “Il est temp! Baudelaire’s Logic of Time and the Memory of the Present.” Now I’m exactly 2/3 finished with this semester. I have a 20-page paper about terrorism due a week… more ›

Could anything be more boring and uninspiring than my life right now? After about 3 hours of sleep last night—and a very frustrating weekend altogether—I’ve managed to write perhaps two pages of the 35 which are due early next week… more ›