Category Archives: general

Being an editor

“I Re-wrote Those Motherfuckers From Scratch”
Posted by Marc Bousquet on 01/05/10 at 03:26 PM
Bérubé How many submissions did you receive for The Institution of Literature?
Williams 385, not counting the nine essays you submitted, eight of which sucked, if you don’t mind my saying so.
Bérubé Not at all. I totally respect your opinion when it comes [...]

Apophenia

Spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.

40

Not having enough as a kid and thankful for it … meeting Mkka in summer of 1990 … realizing what it is that Oedipa really found … 10am to 2am shifts in a theatre in Edinburgh … listening to “Ugra Karma” for the first time … H3O … Hakim Bey … Pullman and Wazzu … [...]

With Obama election comes the return of the vampire

[From The San Diego Union-Tribune -- With Obama election comes the return of the vampire]

Lankavatara Sutra

“Things are not as they appear. Nor are they otherwise.”

Gone

Arthur C. Clarke - 18 March 2008

Identity crash

identity crash - Sudden and catastrophic collapse of an individual’s ability to keep all the threads of his or her online identity straight when the individual joins one too many social networks. I was ok keeping up with Facebook, Flickr, and Myspace, but after throwing lawlink, Last.fm, and Orkut into the mix, I had [...]