After reading about Bradley’s running exploits, I’ve decided to try to get back into it. They don’t call it “Druid Hills” for nothing. Maybe for the “Druid,” part. I haven’t yet found out about that. But anyway, I’ve gone running four times since last Friday: On the beach in St. Augustine (180 minutes) Hilly neighborhood [...]
I wonder how many people have read the former before the latter? Because it seems to me that, if you know something about Nietzsche’s argument, the Clement is just a long supporting blockquote. Also have to wonder how effective these exhortations were.
Shane Carruth’s Primer, budgeted at $7,000, is the most intelligent time-travel film I’ve ever seen (including La Jetée.) Though I can’t claim to be a time travel film scholar like Chuck Tryon, I think he’s come to a similar conclusion. It remains vaguely obscene to compare it to The Matrix or Memento, as some of [...]
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From Videodrome and the library, here are some noted items: Videodrome Rented both Sin City and Primer. Am interested in renting The Machinist and Sea Lab 2021 Season Three. May write review of Miller’s The Dark Knight Strikes Again for the Valve. Library Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. Full of ideas, this one. Ritner, [...]
Malcolm Gladwell has an angry article in the New Yorker about the American health care system. Like many graduate students I knew, I didn’t have health insurance in graduate school because it wasn’t provided or subvented and thus couldn’t be afforded. After severely spraining my ankle playing football, I laid off the contact sports for [...]
For distribution and future reference: Literature and the Cognitive Sciences University of Connecticut, Storrs April 6-9, 2006 Plenary Speakers: *Richard Gerrig*, Stony Brook University *Patrick Colm Hogan*, University of Connecticut *Elaine Scarry*, Harvard University “Literature and the Cognitive Sciences,” the first conference of its kind, will feature new work being done at the multiple (and [...]
The Road to Reality is the lifetime statement of a devoted thinker who has defied the mainstream and can cast powerful if unusual light on a canon of familiar thoughts. I was reminded of Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Both are big books that at turns amaze and [...]
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Though I’ve decided to teach a differently themed writing class this fall, I follow intermittently the debates about contemporary creationism. There are two stories in the Times today about it: one by Jodi Wilgoren, mentioned that the Gates foundation donates to the creationist Discovery Institute, which was mildly surprising. A charitable assumption might be that [...]
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Neither del.icio.us nor del.irio.us have allowed me to register for their services. I don’t expect I’m missing something. I just never get to where I’m able to add the bookmarklet. None dare call it treason. Via Grand Text Auto, I found Florian Cramer’s Word Made Flesh, a book that seems to touch upon several of [...]
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Fairly soon, I’m going to redesign this pitiful-looking blog and add some new “content” and “features.” You just wait and see. One of the things I plan to do is to update the blogroll over there. The venerable wrecking.org site, former home of the long-lamented Journal of Advanced Stuff, now hosts a blog by Bradley [...]
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