Well, we’ve finally gone and done it. Yes, friends, 849 Laurel Avenue is officially up for sale. Autumn and I decided to try selling it buy owner. A realtor (why is my spell checker telling me that realtor is supposed to be spelled with a capital “R”? Bah!) who is trying to sell a house [...]
Archive | March, 2007
Accident #2
It’s bound to happen. Every motorcyclist I talk to, and every columnist I read say all motorcyclists are bound to have an accident. I had my first accident in June of 2005, and this one was very similar, except it happened on Mercer University Drive in heavy traffic after the sky rained enough to make [...]
Mailer on Technology
My freshmen have been reading Mailer’s Why Are We at War? I’ve enjoyed going through it a couple of times. I like the end, where he includes snippets of ideas; among them is this one on “technology”: Given the modern world of technology, I don’t know whether the race or culture question is paramount. The [...]
New Buds
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Baudrillard Dies
Or he has gone to that big Disneyworld in the sky. From the NYTimes: The French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in blockbuster movies like “The Matrix,” died yesterday in Paris. He was 77. [. [...]
