May 2012
7 posts
MARMALADE CHRONOFILE: Game of Privilege →
marmaladechronofile:
Over on his blog, Scalzi offers a resonant metaphor for Straight White Male privilege:
Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the…
Thinking about this, brewing response to OP.
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“A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be...”
– Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth
scott's tumblr: Notes from an Occupation 17:... →
Hmmm.
scottrossi:
So I’m just going to quick talk about what happened tonight, 30 April, 2012, on the eve of the May Day 2012 General Strike. I don’t know everything yet, and I’m too busy getting ready for tomorrow to really sit down and do homework. You’re getting my on the ground observations and you’re getting…
April 2012
5 posts
Reg's Mom on Saving Tali
biowareaccordingtomom:
Mom: wat Reg: What? Mom: numbers? Reg: Timed mission. Mom: y Reg: [sudden realization] MOM YOU HAVE TO SAVE TALI Mom: who Reg: STOP TEXTING ME AND SAVE TALI AND DO NOT PICK UP THIS PHONE UNTIL YOU HAVE SAVED HER. [several minutes pass] Mom: so android gril Reg: Tali is my homegirl, Mom. You are not allowed to trash talk her. Mom: but shes an andrid Reg: She’s not an...
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
January 2012
2 posts
November 2009
1 post
“So we have a new organization of content and expression, each with its own forms...”
– Deleuze & Guattari, “The Geology of Morals”, A Thousand Plateaus, 2007, p. 63