2009 does NOT feel like the end of a decade for me. Not the way 1999 did, but then all four numbers changed and it was the end of a century and there was Y2K, so that was a little different. But it just seems like 1-10 should go together instead of 0-9, because I [...]
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Hypothetical Conversation Between Me and an E-book Reader*
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, e-book readers, hypothetical conversation, literature, technology on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
*by which I mean the technology that reads e-books, rather than a person.
Amy: Die painfully and burst into flames, E-book Reader!!
E-book Reader: (swiveling an easy chair around and casually looking up) Oh. Hey, Amy. Whassup? I didn’t see you there.
Amy: Don’t try to be the bigger person here, E-book Reader; we both [...]
A Pop Culture Query
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 13, cultural theory, music, Offspring, the '90s on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I realize that this question is not exactly topical, but when a scrawny guy with a sideways baseball cap and a huge black jacket with skulls on it boarded my bus yesterday, Offspring’s “Pretty Fly (for a white guy)” couldn’t help but jump into my head. I realize the best person to answer this question [...]
Breakfast at STU
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember breakfasts down in the Rigby caf, on weekends when if you were lucky they were serving strawberry waffles and there was still whipped cream left and maple syrup on the side with scrambled eggs, bacon and homefries, and it was just breakfast breakfast breakfast until 12:30 or maybe it was 1 but sometimes you [...]
“Because our pain makes us real, Dawson”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural theory, dawson's creek, freaks and geeks, school, tv on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I fell in love with Dawson’s Creek in the summer of 2003, my first summer home from St. Thomas. If the first summer after college is indeed a universally frustrating experience, then I would guess that mine was worse than most in a number of ways. I won’t invoke past hells, but it’s just now [...]
