Category: idiocy

• Rocks in Your Head

  Jul 29

  Timothy Morton is an English scholar at Rice University. He is also a “speculative realist.” That’s fancy theoretical talk for “bullshit artist.” He would have you believe–and I chose this… more ›

• Exorbitant Stupidity

  Mar 26

  If you follow this line long enough, you get to deconstruction where a theorist would be looking for internal contractions or paradoxes that would essentially render the text meaningless. At… more ›

• Incur

  Jun 6

  She has a knack for inserting herself into his life. He does not like her, and yet she is already in view. To call her a storm on the horizon… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Dec 19

  How academia is turning me into a stingy and petty academic. When resources are already stretched too far, the small benefits afforded students and professors in the humanities become necessary… more ›

• Election Coverage: Full Disclosure of H8, or California Goddam

  Nov 8

  Despite the false headlines in The New York Times Wednesday morning, Obama has not moved America beyond race politics. Very little has changed as far as the electorate goes. Otherwise,… more ›

• Project Blog It: September

  Sep 19

  What do we even mean by the term September? The seventh month? Unless I’m counting on my fingers incorrectly, this is the ninth month. And what about that so-old-as-to-not-even-be-archaic suffix… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Rising from the East

  Sep 16

  Bally Sagoo is one of those rare musicians and DJs who can take something as ethnically cramped as a Bollywood hit and make it an international sensation. I don’t remember… more ›

• Courtyard Catastrophe

  Jul 24

  Holed up in this hole of a hotel all day has allowed me to transcend my normal, everyday sort of asocial behavior and arrive at a point of pure misanthropy.… more ›

• Lost Summer

  Jul 1

  Very rarely do I ever get caught up in an hour-long drama. Broadcast television, PBS excluded, typically sucks too much for me to tune in to more than the mindless… more ›

• The New Empty of Graduate School

  Apr 19

  Here’s a sample of some of the crazy shit I end up saying in class: Just as the Skeptics refuse to rely on the senses, so too do the Buddhists.… more ›