Today’s post arrives courtesy of Medium.com, a site that alert reader Jessica Ehlers pointed out to me. Previously, I didn’t know this site existed. It’s some kind of networked blogging site, akin to… Continue reading
A long time ago, on a blog far, far away… …was a post entitled “No Desert Island: Towards A Gutsy Aesthetics Via Nabokov.” In that post, I wrote the following: Lolita is a… Continue reading
Once upon a time, Lester Bangs wrote an article about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I read it a while ago, drunk, but the gist of the essay is that Sgt. Pepper… Continue reading
The man of ressentiment is neither upright nor naive nor honest and straightforward with himself. His soul squints; his spirit loves hiding places, secret paths and back doors, everything covert entices him as his… Continue reading
Dear readers, It is no small feat to work on something for twelve years, and to be able to say, at the end of that time, that nothing has been accomplished. Many people… Continue reading
“Get over it.” -Antonin Scalia, responding to questions about Bush v. Gore In the future, if you’re wondering: “Crime. Boy, I don’t know,” is when I decided to kick your ass. -The West… Continue reading
Herndon and vocalist Claire Tolan use [the song] to deposit the listener, quite literally forcibly, into the megalomaniacal and quite possibly sexual fantasy of an executive weaned on Tolan’s just-world-hypothesis coo: “All of your… Continue reading
The Dance of the Seven Veils is a term used to refer to the dance performed by Salome before Herod Antipas. It is an elaboration on the biblical story of the execution of… Continue reading
Here’s the video of my conversation with telecommunications and privacy expert Sherwin Siy about the new James Bond film, SPECTRE! Contradisciplinary is back, folks! Enjoy. -Kugelmass
