Deutsch? Na klar!

I had a somewhat startling realization the other day -I was in the middle of listening to my gazillionth German podcast, which I’ve alternately interpersed with arguing about German grammar on the internet, and it struck me. I speak a foreign language. Well, sort of. I understand a foreign language – speaking it is going to [...]

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If You Hate The Internet I Probably Hate You

This post could have been a number of things – if nothing else, I never have a shortage of material that draws my ire. I had briefly considered keeping a running count of “Things I like and Things I hate” on this blog, but abandoned the whole project when it became clear that it would [...]

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On World Series and the Homo-Social

So, I’m back home for the summer, which means no more frantic paper writing, no coffee binges, no white rum binges, and perhaps most significantly, lots of spare time. Because I am a curious (self-absorbed, narcissistic) person, this gives me a lot of time to reflect on the trajectory of my life up to now. Where [...]

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Signs of the Impending Apocalypse

I live in simulacrum.
I found out today from my dear friend Ginia that Slavoj Zizek has a twitter account. What’s more, he converses with a character calling himself sfreud.
http://twitter.com/zizekspeaks
http://twitter.com/sfreud

Zizek is pretty awesome as the Lacanian version of M. Night Shamalayan – you thought you were having sex with a real person, but instead it’s just [...]

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I think there’s a direct correlation between the number of times you resort to the first person and how shitty your blog gets – this is probably because if the internet is nothing else, it’s a way to figure out that 1.) everyone is miserable and wants attention and 2.) the internet is sensationalist, and [...]

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