2009-02-09     Fiddling While Rome Burns
2009-01-29     The Color of Assholes
2009-01-24     Engine Drivers
2008-08-28     Conventional Thoughts
2008-07-13     Don't tase me, bro: the algorithm
2008-06-23     Stuff for you to look at
2008-06-02     Review: Mowing the Lawn
2008-05-26     Spoiler Alert: The Chronicles of Narnia
2008-05-18     Spoiler Alert: The Oeuvre of Judy Blume
2008-05-12     What about politics?
2008-05-05     Spoiler Alert: Watership Down, part 2
2008-04-30     Spoiler Alert: Watership Down
2008-04-28     The Possibility of Effective Nonviolence
2008-04-20     More short takes
2008-04-15     What happened to feminism?
2008-04-07     Short Takes
2008-03-31     Prison Rape, ha ha ha
2008-03-24     A Boy's Life
2008-03-17     The Department of Free Ideas
2008-03-10     War on Science: Hilarious Project Edition

2009-01-22     Like being rickrolled for 18 minutes...
2008-09-02     Charles Barkley: Crazy Genius
2008-08-28     Rejection x 2
2008-05-30     Cognitive Surplus
2008-05-12     The Future of the Book
2008-04-07     Make yourself crazy
2008-04-03     Cat Found
2008-03-21     Doubles, Triples, Quadruples, and More!!
2008-03-14    
2008-03-04     The idea file
2008-02-27     Frozen in Grand Central
2008-02-11     Robot, to human: why are my eyes leaking?
2008-01-28     Sleeveface
2008-01-28     Montesquieu plus Leibniz = Perot
2008-01-17     Get it while it's hot!
2008-01-15    
2008-01-13     Obama's Style
2008-01-06     Jeffrey Lewis
2007-12-20     Sinographers unite!
2007-12-19     Hilarious or Depressing?

2008-02-24     Final thoughts
2008-02-24     Sitting in a tree...
2008-02-24     Winding down...
2008-02-24     The Oscars on the East Coast
2008-02-24     Vive la France!!
2008-02-24     Third song: ugh
2008-02-24     Tilda Swinton's agent
2008-02-24     Songs: Not bad!!
2008-02-24     Javier Bardem
2008-02-24     Where's Julia?

2009-10-01: 1. Re DSM-V: you're prob right. 2. As though there had to be a scene of rejection for there to be a scene of rejection! 3. We agree about most of this, but I just wanted to note that class rage very rarely takes the form of shooting up a bunch...

2009-09-30: Howdy, H-bomb, I'll add nothing that you don't already know, but this: it's also about gender. Annie Le like the women in that gym in Pittsburgh and like the students at Virginia Tech who died, died because part of the way that class resentment...

2009-03-02: I'll see you this question, and raise you one: I've twice taught only the first volume of Proust's Recherche. I don't see how you could do all 6 (or 7, depending on how you're counting) and teach anything else. But still: how do you handle the...

2008-07-14: Beef to chef has another, more beef-specific answer.....

2008-07-14: Oh, the genius ur-answer!! But really, here's a hint: the answer to #1 is “Don't graze me,...

2008-05-26: P.S. The errors in this spoiler alert are especially large. (Apparently there were seven novels, though I am right that the later ones made no sense to a child.) I direct you to the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik.....

2008-05-19: Ahh--fabulous!! One of the rules of Spoiler Alert (tm) is that I'm not allowed to look anything up. It occurred to me last night as I was writing that it really was strange that the Ramona books were so dumb compared to the Judy Blume ones, and...

2008-04-23: I couldn't agree more, MS; may I recommend to you Poetry on Record, a wonderful collection of 4 CDs that I have yet to put in iTunes, but now that you mention it, I will.....

2008-04-23: Well, Guy, A couple things: 1) I suppose my question was, indeed, “what happened to academic feminism,” or, perhaps more specifically, what happened to specifically feminist knowledge production that *labels* itself feminist, and...

2008-04-16: I thought Samuel Beckett was French...