This may get rant-y. I hate Cable TV. Hate it. I hate skimming through the hundreds of channels looking for the Weather Channel when it storms. I hate Comedy Central’s two-hour blocks of It’s Always Sunny in Danny DeVito’s Career and The Roast of Some Poor Sad Bastard From the 80’s Who Needs to Cover His Mortgage when… Read More Here’s $10, Bring Me the Head of Verizon FiOS
According to my students, anyway. Her, or Rachel McAdams. She keeps hearing this sort of thing, I’m going to have to start being nice to her.
It seems like the BBC is always offering New and Interesting studies that fail to be either. I don’t know if science in the UK is so devoted to AGW that there are no resources for anything else, or if the BBC can no longer tell what’s news and what isn’t. Of course, I have… Read More My Brain is Sluggish; it Must be Tuesday.
Mark Kitto, writing in Prospect Magazine, explains in a long article why he is leaving China, where he has lived for decades. His insights are manifold, and worth reading, but I noticed this: The government is so scared of the people it prefers not to lead them. In rural China, village level decisions that require… Read More China Does Not Escape its History
Yesterday I spent with the baby, who is still below that blessed age when she can process what’s on the television, so I can watch whatever I want. What I seemed to want was documentaries. To wit: 1. Absinthe, a film that labored like a stevedore to take away everything bohemian or dangerous about the… Read More Absinthe and Posers
Scott Biddle finds the head of the nail and smacks it down like the Driver does to Cook’s hand (finally saw Drive last night). We start out excited about something and plunge into it without an appreciation for how much effort it will take to do it right. I think I had a fairly good understanding… Read More Blogging is Thankless Work
The problem with summertime is that you think you have all the time in the world, and every day you learn that such is not the case, and every night you forget it. And then it’s August and all the big projects you were going to tackle are still there, and you say the hell… Read More Random Yammerings of a Consumerist
Content Blues 