Is this like something you have to be? Or automatically become?
And why are there these special, all-cringeworthy words for getting older?
Why aren’t I the same person, in somewhat different form? Read the rest of this entry »
Fuck Me, I Think I’m Elder
January 30th, 2012 § 7 comments § permalink
You Don’t Know What Is Happening Here, Do You, Ms. Katehi?
November 20th, 2011 § 9 comments § permalink
Verrry interesting. The slow tap tap of her heels … in all that silence. Just devastating.
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Letting Go Of Steve
October 10th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
Jobs had been teaching us to say goodbye to all that for decades — we just didn’t know it.
… in these final years, when the auditorium lights in would go down and the crowd would go wild for Jobs, who increasingly greeted his followers and touted the latest neat, new thing even as he wore the look of a person who was not going into that future with us.
He would be getting off here; we were to proceed without him … Let it go and look ahead was the message all along.
Hank Stueval in the Washington Post
Okay, I’m going to cry some more. Read the rest of this entry »
What To Do About Larry
October 4th, 2011 § Comments Off § permalink
Should Google Tweak the News? asks the New York Times.
Count me Horrified. Can the Times retract, even, the question?
”Should Google play an editorial role in presenting readers with news?” Read the rest of this entry »
The Shock of the New
September 7th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
On Richard Brody’s New Yorker Blog, the DVD of the Week is that fave, that treasure, Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Read the rest of this entry »
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
August 28th, 2011 § Comments Off § permalink
What is important to understand is that these same messages about how awful the latest version of Mac OS X is appear each and every time there’s a new upgrade. Thomas Reed, Apple Discussions
An Apple user since 1992, and OS X since Jaguar—I strongly disagree. Read the rest of this entry »
Give You My Onlyness
July 12th, 2011 § 2 comments § permalink
“Facebook seems to want to pull everything in to its playground,whereas Google seem rather more inclined to make their toys show up wherever you already are. Sometimes,anyway –although I sense their thinking about all this is probably as confused as mine is.” One of Michael O’Conner Clarke’s excellent Thoughts on Google+ this morning.
Which is certainly more human of Google. Being confused. Though it feels odd to say so. Read the rest of this entry »
Meaning Beyond Question
June 16th, 2011 § 2 comments § permalink
After reading Partial Objects today, an amazing post, all about things like Lacan and the Soul—
All I know is, my soul is a pest. Or whatever that internal thing is that has kept yammering away, lo these many decades. Always with a very clear idea of what is right. Read the rest of this entry »
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