I confess, I’m a traitor.
Yes, I’ve gone to the dark side. But this wasn’t an unprincipled betrayal. Indeed, this betrayal was driven by the principles of fair-use and freedom. Yes I’ve bought music from Amazon’s mp3 service.
and I like it.
For my betrayal I’m punished with DRM free, high bitrate encoding mp3’s that play [...]
Wallace Stegner’s novel, “Crossing to Safety,” weaves a story of two depression era couples who quite accidently befriend one another in the small town of Madison Wisconsin. One couple, Sid and Charity, is rather wealthy while the other couple, Sally and Larry barely scrape by. The Sid and Charity struggle through a life of academia [...]
As part of Dr. Carter’s Black Intellectuals in Religion class, we were invited to interact with Fredrick Douglas’ 1845 Narrative. Carter argues, that Douglas uses hallowed language, –religious language– to describe both the current situation and his vision for a new future. Ultimately, however, this hallowed language is hollow. Which is to say, that the [...]
I found this image via Notcot.org I would love to own a Geiclee (spelling?) of this painting:
All of his work, which can be found here, is on the darker side of art, but they are beautiful and moving. How many times does the act of inspiration come at the cost of love?
Do we hope [...]
Danny and I spent another late night over pancakes,
Talkin’ ’bout soccer
And how every man’s just the same
We made speculation
On the who’s and the when’s of our futures
And how everyone’s lonely
But still we just couldn’t complain
And how we just hate being alone
Could I have missed my only chance
And now I’m just wasting my time
By looking around
But [...]
