musings on reading and occasionally other stuff
I lugged “The Making of Americans” halfway around the world, on flights to and from here in Louisiana to The Netherlands, where I attended Roadburn (a metal fest). A lot of people commented on its sheer bulk. At 1022 pages (plus a couple of introductions), its a chunky book. People who watched me bring it […]
Let’s clarify a few things. Someone read my last essay, and said they found it “incurious” and “anti-intellectual” which strikes me as a little odd, since it’s an inquiry into things, more of a starting point for dialogue than any proscriptive about interpretations of text. I’m quite literally in a major in college that is […]
This essay assumes you have a basic familiarity with the film “The Shining”. If you don’t, go watch it or something. I – Lilith Maybe Speaks One of the, like, three readers of this blog and I got into a bit of a discussion about the last entry. Curiously, not about what I thought about […]
I originally wrote this as a set of Instagram stories, published on the same day as the Super Bowl, which I watched with a kind of detached amusement, as I cared about neither team. I did care about the silly “halftime show” battle between the NFL and some right wing dingus organization I will not […]
I’ve spent Christmas and the New Years up at the acreage; my bees are happily buzzing around when it’s warm, and hiding when it isn’t. This is their nature. Mine is apparently to hide away in a cabin, emerging to walk my dogs, write occasionally, read a lot, and just kind of luxuriate in having […]
It has been one of those years that feels long in retrospect, but I am also wondering exactly how I got to December. It’s still fairly early in the month, and I’ll likely finish the books I am reading at present, and start another one or two before the year is out, but I’m comfortable […]
I had a couple of friends in college who both underwent huge personality changes during the time I knew them, both after encountering some philosophical concept that fundamentally changed their understanding of the world around them; one, unfortunately encountered Ayn Rand, and immediately embraced her — I don’t want to dignify it by calling it […]
This is a paper I wrote for my Wittgenstein class. I liked it enough to put it here; I think there are some good ideas in it– I wish I had more time to expand some of them, and refute some of the things I read in others, but like all assignments, this had a […]
So I just finished my final essay for my Wittgenstein class. I think it’s a good essay, and I’ll publish it here after I submit it for a grade. But at the end of the class (well, I still have a final to take, but the writing part is over). I’m a little restless. Reading […]
Someone I know said that they get “90% of the philosophy I read” from this blog which leads me to two thoughts : 1) How oddly specific, and 2) how oddly depressing. I’m an undergrad, and a prep cook in the philosophical world, watching people with bigger brains stroll by all the time, apparently effortlessly […]