November 2010
5 posts
the violence of handcrafted dolls: reflections on... →
theviolenceofhandcrafteddolls:
I learned from friends that the pitchfork review of False Priest was less than good, so I avoided reading it until tonight. I gathered from PF’s review of Skeletal Lamping that we were not a darling of their blog, but I had hoped that we’d get a slightly less disappointing writer this time around…
I found this super amusing. Glad to know that we are on the...
Thoughts on Kanye and Death and Other Stuff
I feel as though I am missing something. This Kanye album: it’s fairly good. I’d give a few tracks repeated listens, but I just can’t seem to frame it as this 21st century magnum opus. In order for me to view it as such, I would have to form an instant and strong attachment to the songs and also something somewhere would have to resonate. And deeply. I feel a complete disconnect...
“If we are serious about improving our schools, we will take steps to improve our...”
– Diane Ravitch is my education reform hero. She says everything I’ve been wanting to say about why Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” is problematic and reductive propaganda, but in a way that is brilliant and highly persuasive. Her book, The Death and the Life of the Great...
Cliches
Have any of you out there attended a corporate meeting and found it to be the most tedious, inconsequential, borderline nihilistic experience of your entire lives? Does your head clog-up with mental anguish as various co-workers drone on about their past work experiences with the pompous posturings of the most loathsome kind of suck-up: the clueless one? Have you found yourself desperately...