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 I was delighted to find a post from the past few years that had started thinking in the direction I was going.  Here was my "original...

Tonight we had the rare opportunity for An Uncorrupted Double Feature (viewing two new {to me} movies, one after the other, thereby linking...

Rumi is one of the world's most beloved poets, and his influence can be seen in many different aspects of culture. His poetry has been t...

I went and saw Joker last night - dutifully.  It was violent, very well made, well acted (and heavily acted), wonderfully shot, all like ...

I logged 2400 miles of American roads, 14 hours of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , 3 full Brewers game broadcasts (all the enemy radi...

I. Preamble - This isn't a review - rather an overall critical analysis of ueber-narrative.  I've recently been on a mission to w...

Hello Brian, I have just listened through to the last episode of S-Town , and am just now passing by Flint, Michigan to my right on Sou...

I am on vacation. I am traveling. I’m taking a trip. Playing tourist. I will be out of the office starting on Monday… I am staying at…...

Re-watching The Desolation of Smaug and the elven torture scene got me thinking about Elven Intellectualism.  The idea of alignment in ...

Sitting, enjoying some quiet holiday pause, I am reading my way through Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way , and he unexpectedly ha...

If we take this question at face value we probably come up with some obvious preliminary answers like slavery or oppression. A more etymol...

It's nearing election day and the blathering "jobs jobs jobs, jobs jobs jobs jobs" (said with the intonation of the Peanuts...

Last night I attended my annual foray into reminiscing musicality and general old time-i-ness at the Badger Chordhawk's annual Barbersh...

, being "necessarily" dissolved by some people (if, indeed, corporations are people), we assume it among the powers of the earth. ...

It's been nearly five months since my last published entry.  Since that time I've become a "dissertator", seen a few of my...

This morning I abandoned my bike next to a gas station.  I also threw the old sheet i've been sleeping on the last week down a garbage c...

everyday life, indeed...

*Note: The following is taken (and only slightly adapted) from a seminar paper of mine for Fall 2008. It examines the idea of 'super-m...

In the opening chapter of Film/Genre (a fundamental texts on genre films), Rick Altman tracks the history of genre theory from Aristotle t...

My most recent favorite blogger, jd, wrote today about the Psychology of Happiness and asks some interesting questions about the relations...