Friday, August 15, 2008

Cynicism

cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling - Woody Allen

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Joyce McKinney

"I loved him so much that I would ski naked down Mt Everest with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to."

Friday, August 8, 2008

The center of historical excitement

But on or about June 29, 2007, human character changed. That, of course, was the release date of the first iPhone.

On that date, media displaced culture. As commenters on The American Scene blog have pointed out, the means of transmission replaced the content of culture as the center of historical excitement and as the marker of social status.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.