I saw a man this past Saturday as I was heading into the city to see a production of Pig Farm and he was dying. Not right then, but death had imprinted itself so heavily on him that it was coming soon. I think he had AIDS – his frame was gaunt, arms covered in …
David Carr has a good article in week’s NY Times about Ann Coulter. Tony Norman’s essay “If Ann Coulter’s a Christian, Then I’ll Be Damned” is also quite good. I don’t know anyone who actually likes her (the perils of an extremely limited social group: you think the whole world thinks like you), or thinks …
I can’t believe that it has been over a year since Doctor Who has returned to television and I haven’t said one word about it on my blog. It has been like an old friend returning after a long absence. I can remember as a child sitting in front of my grandparents old Magnavox Stereo …
I’ve read a good 800 or so pages of books in the last three days. WHHHEEEEE! Ask me about Augusto Boal and Theater of the Oppressed. Go on, ask me anything you want. Last night I went to Warsaw and saw Minus the Bear, and mewithoutYou (there were a couple of other bands performing, but …
I am sitting at College Perk after having breakfast with Sandro, Nadja and Sandro’s friend Amy. Yes, we did the IHOP scene. This is the first moment (other than going to bed in Sandro’s basement) that I’ve been alone since I got down to MD. It’s been a nice trip so far. Thursday Sandro & …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my homework, but I have been working on this for a while now and thought I’d share. Basically, this is the first half of an assignment for a seminar on radical pedagogy and Paulo Freire. One key practice in Freirean pedagogy is ‚??reading the world‚?? when …
feels like mush. I can’t seem to concentrate and it takes me forever to try to get some of my writing for school done. It’s late and I’m tired but not sleepy. The apartment building has been annoyingly loud tonight – party one floor up and next door neighbor pounding on her own door because …
Plato is not exactly a hero of mine, in fact there is much that I don’t agree with in his philosophies, however, I came across this quote in his The Republic and thought it was so very appropriate to our contemporary political landscape: “The truth is that if you want a well-governed state you must …
Hawaii definitely put into relief just how distant from nature I am and how, living in NY, one becomes cut off from sky and surf and land. I am more sure than ever that I don’t want to stay in NYC any longer than necessary for my PhD. I’m sure I’m not alone amongst the …
Brief update: scuba didn’t happen because I have asthma and it turns out that if a pocket of air gets trapped in your lungs as you are rising up to the surface, it would expand and possibly do serious damage. While it’s possible to have asthma and dive, you have to get a doctor to …