What in the hell …

I’ve still got one more thing I need to do before it’s officially summer, but I’ve already jumped ahead a bit to other reading. I’ve read most of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, the beginning of Nagel’s View From Nowhere and today started Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. Let the summer of irritating books begin! (more…)

Any guesses? Hint follows the “more.” (more…)

I’ll be working an office job I think, as a temp. Hopefully, if things work out. My other option so far is a gig as a janitor at a sports stadium, second shift. I’m not keen on that one at ALL, nor am I keen on job hunting as my last experiences at that were so bad for some time. I’m also going to cook a lot and start going to the gym again. I may get a new tattoo if the funds work out. And I plan to work on more language stuff.

More importantly, though, what am I going to READ?!

I hereby commit to reading Being and Time, both volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, and Of Grammatology. All of that is stuff that frankly irritates me. After reading it, I’ll be able to say why.
I’m open to suggestions of works to swap in place of these, but only if they’re similarly irritating and similarly widely(ish) read.

Beyond that, E.P. Thompson. CLR James. Dave Roediger. Any other suggestions?

The following started out as a response to a post here but it got too long so I kept going and made it its own blog post (more…)

A post at Pinocchio Theory reminded me that I’d been wanting to slap something up here that I wrote last fall. I do so now with much trepidation. (more…)

I can’t remember when exactly but earlier this year, around xmas maybe I dunno, I finally finished Thompson’s mammoth Making book, which was fantabulous. More Thompson is on my summer reading list, once summer finally settles in. (more…)

Screeching Weasel is one of the best bands there is in the history of bands. Period. (more…)

“Taylor loved to argue that workers should be selected on the same “sensible” basis on which draft animals were discriminately chosen for separate tasks. The working class was divided by nature into groups of weak mules, ordinary drays, and superstrong work horses.” (more…)