Homophone-ish, really. Puns I mean. (more…)
May 16, 2008
… is the best way to represent homophone-based jokes in writing?
May 14, 2008
… can you do …
… to help me help make a friend of mine happy? (more…)
May 13, 2008
… is the secret …
to telling good jokes? The secret (more…)
May 11, 2008
… could possibly be more embarassing?
Than a post about the Spin Doctors? (more…)
May 9, 2008
… is with all the damn numbers?
May 8, 2008
… am I so sad about?
Man I love Jawbreaker so much. I think I may take the plunge and get me one of them 4Fs as a tattoo. (more…)
May 7, 2008
… are post-operaisti so sad about?
I just stumbled across “The Sadness of Post-Workerism,” a review by David Graeber of an event that several thinkers from post-operaismo (often called autonomist marxism in a narrowing conflation). Graeber’s brief positive claims or gestures toward positive claims don’t move me, but his negative remarks are dead on. In many ways the essay works out his closing class for post-operaismo thinkers to “extricate [them]selves from the shackles of fashion, the need to constantly say that whatever is happening now is necessarily unique and unprecedented.” Extensive quotes below of the bits I like best. The review is worth reading in its entirety. Brought to you by the good people at The Commoner (commoner.org.uk). (more…)
May 5, 2008
… is wrong with wage slavery?
The term I mean. I got into a brief argument with a friend about this recently. this is a placeholder to remind myself to write on it, why I think the term is at least acceptable and perhaps advisable.