The Bunker Flash fiction by Tait McKenzie Johnson Robert Lambkin had survived the end of the world, at least the last time it was supposed to go kaput, he told me as we stood on the beach, watching the sun try to rise. You see, it was the ‘80s, and for an old hippy like [...]
A Chronicle of Day by Day by Tait McKenzie Johnson Being excerpts from Prospero’s journals on the island prior to the events of The Tempest, adapted from William Shakespeare for a literature class on adaptation, and drawing on the language and rhetoric of the original source for all shipwreck narratives, William Strachey’s The True Reportory [...]
In my popular culture class we’ve begun discussing freakshows, from the old carnival sideshow to the more contemporary versions of talkshows, tabloids, and some reality TV; a cultural form that essentially profits from the exploitation of abnormality and difference as entertainment. While with advances in scientific knowledge and individual respect such spectacles no longer rely [...]
In German legend, the doppelgänger or double-goer is a ghostly version of oneself who follows us like our shadow. When it appears however, the doppelgänger becomes a harbinger of death, pointing Shelley to his drowning in the Mediterranean, or a portent of the future, like Goethe meeting his future self on the road to Drusenheim. [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
APA Philosophy Referee Hand Sginals (above)Rumors that first Dark Matter Particle has been discoveredUS finally to settle Native American Trust LawsuitWhat Philosophers BelieveHow the iPhone could Reboot Education (which I’ve already seen with my own eyes at Pitt)Tom Waits may be up for a role in the HobbitDavid Bowie and the OccultThe Fortsas BibliohoaxThe Milky [...]
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
*Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and founder of structuralism, has passed away at 100. *Slate on how Ayn Rand became an American icon *The Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns *Persuasion and the art of storytelling. *A giant crack in Africa may create a new ocean *US Troops in Afghanistan are burning copies of the Koran. *Corey [...]
The End of Philosophy. From Adbusters, interesting but the writer went to Pitt, and had one of the same philosophy classes I’m taking there this semester, and I agree its mostly irrelevant, except I’d have to say: don’t expect other people to apply ideas for you, you have to think for yourself. the Age of [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Taking a break from such heavy cosmological topics as the Universe ending in heat death sooner than anticipated and a new translation of the Bible that shows God did not create heaven and earth but merely separate what was already there, Sophie and I went out last night to check out the opening night of [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
This NY Times article was too good not to post, it reminds me of some of the flash science-fictions I was working on in the spring [via metafilter]: A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature [...]
My family has many strange stories, of the kind that Gabriel Garcia Marquez might have written if he was into sci-fi, such as that when they were children both my brother and cousin claimed they were abducted by aliens. While visiting my family this past week we spent some time with this cousin, who I’ve [...]
