Being that it’s a rainy day where I am right now and I’ve been meaning to do a few “Best of the 00′s” lists, when I found myself making a playlist of climate-appropriate musical selections it seemed like a good chance to collect some impressions. Starting with Badly Drawn Boy‘s Hour of the Bewilderbeast in [...]
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The core of my practice of theory is an appreciation of what I call “object bias” — our tendency to conceive experience composed of distinct and permanent objects.
I just reached 5130 words on a blog post… a little to long to still qualify as a “blog post,” methinks. It’s an essay really, but still long enough I should explain. When I’m writing an essay, I often start adding a sentence or a paragraph in the middle or close to the start, and [...]
Jotted this down just before falling asleep last night: As opposed to someone who thinks along conventional lines, someone who is genuinely creative constantly and actively looks for potential complementarity in everyone they meet — not just asking “who is this person and “what have they done,” but digging deeper to ask “what potential is there [...]
Lately I’ve been more inclined towards long-form — both in writing and in reading. I’m back in the rhythm I had in 2007: writing actual essays at a rate of one-per-week. Maybe that’s the last thing people want, but it’s where I perceive a need. It’s also where I’m most likely to add unique value and [...]
When Larry Cornies tweeted, “Attention, citizen journalists: Grand Theatre (London, Ont.) annual meeting,” for a moment I thought he was talking about an annual meeting of citizen journalists… “Oh?” I thought to myself, “I wonder who put that together?” No… Once I regained my literacy I realized the annual meeting was in fact for The [...]
“Heuristic” — an ugly word that everyone should know — is used differently in various contexts. It generally refers to a process of making open-ended, provisional decisions in order to get into a better position — “for now” — from which to act and decide better later: Let’s see how this works out — find [...]
The book project has evolved from the “world-turned-upside-down” concept to a more general, but better-organized, case for blogging — by which I mean any kind of social, citizen-driven media. [Update: Seconds after publishing I realized what a profound understatement that is... I guess I'll just leave it to readers to figure out exactly what it's [...]
Continued from Insignificant Verbiage. It’s been fun the last few days, taking the position in a running office argument that “irregardless” is a word. I’m well aware that it’s ridiculous. That’s precisely why it’s so much fun. When I hear people complaining in an exaggerated way — e.g. “Ughh, I hhhate when people say that!” — my [...]
