Molly Ivins, 1944-2007

"In 1976, her writing, which she said was often fueled by 'truly impressive amounts of beer,' landed her a job at The New York Times. She cut an unusual figure in The Times newsroom, wearing blue jeans, going barefoot and bringing in her dog, whose name was an expletive."

http://tinyurl.com/3bzecm

Flexibility

The "Center for Teaching and Learning" at my school is promoting a workshop they are calling "Adjuncting 101." I don't know what is uglier, the word or the practice.

Zizek the Heideggerian

"The true despair is precisely that; all historical acts disappear. Like all those classical statues are there, but they are deprived of a world. They are totally meaningless, because what does it mean to have a statue of Michaelangelo? It only works if it signals a certain world. And when this world is lacking, it's nothing. It all depends on whether we have a world. Doe we have some horizon that makes it meaningful?"

http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2006/12/zizek_and_child.html

Ten Bad Films

Badlands
Bad Santa
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Bad Education
Bad Lieutenant
The Bad Seed
The Bad News Bears
Bad Blood (i.e., Mauvais Sang)
Bad Taste

Last 20 albums I've bought

Max Richter, The Blue Notebooks
Ekkehard Ehlers, A Life Without Fear
Broadcast, The Future Crayon
The Microphones, Mount Eerie
Nas, Hip Hop is Dead
Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury
Wolf Eyes, Human Animal
Spektr, Near Death Experience
Striborg, Embittered Darkness / Isle de Morts
Boris & Sunn 0))), Altar
Boris & Merzbow, Sun Baked Snow Cave
Alvin Lucier, I am Sitting in a Room
Rhys Chatham, Two Gongs
Tony Conrad, Joan of Arc
Leo Kottke, 6- and 12-String Guitar
John Fahey, Sea Changes and Coelacanths
Henry Grimes Trio, The Call
Last Exit, Koln
Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe, Duo Exchange
Rashied Ali & Leroy Jenkins, Swift Are the Winds of Life