So for awhile now some readers have asked me to set up an automated Twitter feed to tweet out my new posts, I guess because the RSS feed age sort of died off with Google Reader. Since I aim to please, I’ve finally figured out how to do so. (I think.) It’s here. I set […]

You know, when I think about the rage against the snobs, I think of a  time– I want to say I was 11, maybe 12, so that puts us at like 1993 or 1994– when my father took me around to show me the old black box theaters he used to work in during his […]

and beautiful.  

The injustice that really gets to people has changed from “bad things happen to good people” to “good things happen to bad people.” I dunno, seems like a recipe for unhappiness and dissatisfaction to me.

I thought this speech by Amy Schumer, the actor and comedian, was really poignant and smart, as well as very funny. But it also demonstrates again that self-confidence is bullshit and stupid and everybody should stop pursuing it. Schumer says, Now I feel strong and beautiful. I walk proudly down the streets of Manhattan. The […]

Is Twitter dead? Is Facebook dead? Is Google+ (lol yes) dead? Is the internet dead? Look. We’re all going to die. We briefly flirt with the idea that we’re not going to because the force that has enabled us to play Snood on our cellphone must surely mean we can beat death, and some of […]

Good news for me. I passed my French test! It was a selection from Camus, which is funny if you know the name of my old blog. Which was the final hurdle keeping me from being a PhD candidate! I have been awarded a fellowship by the Purdue Research Foundation for this summer, which means […]