Should this blog have a theme? A lot of blogs do. Themes are great for attracting a specific audience, for advancing a particular agenda, for promoting discourse amongst bloggers, and so-on. But the idea of “themes” vaguely irks me.
My concern is with the creation of feedback loops. There’s something subtly problematic [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Themeback Loop
Posted in frumious bandersnatch on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
its a bird, its a plane, its a chinatown bus!
Posted in americana, frumious bandersnatch, tagged animal-slaves, musketry, pirates, revolution, the elderliest on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As my bus rolls through the skeletal forests of the midatlantic, I’m reminded of this ancestral, deeply patriotic idea that Americans are men and women who eek out an existence in a harsh world, yeomen who want only what they rightly deserve; Spartan farmers wearing French wigs and eating Indian grain and drinking English tea. [...]
JetBlue + wine + VH1 classic = Nirvana
Posted in frumious bandersnatch, insomnia, life-giving founts of joyous jubiliation on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
typically i like to spend my nights asleep. but as of late, my preferences for how to spend my time are not often overlapping with what nature (law school) intends. however, i’ve found myself a happy medium – vh1 classic.
so not having a TV means that i’m sort of a pop-culture ice man, thawing after [...]
espresso is for persons who have huge balls!
Posted in coffee on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m just gonna throw this out there: espresso is the whiskey of coffee. to carry the metaphor further, any latte preceeded by an adjective or a flavor is basically a kamikaze or an amaretto sour. Iced coffee is like sangria – gross, but refreshing. And drip coffee thats been sitting out for a while [...]
its that time of night again
Posted in insomnia on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
well, its officially tomorrow, even though i’ve got a good 4 or 5 hours of productivity left for today. I guess i’ll write a meandering series of comments that may or may not purge my mind of creativity so that i can churn out more briefdom.
i like european things for no good reason. Take croissants [...]
insomnifun
Posted in insomnia on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
so here’s the thing about not being able to sleep. when you know you’re not going to go to bed, suddenly you’ve got all those extra hours you always wanted, that time that people say they’re always running out of. You wanna shout to the world “Man, there’s plenty of time, you just gotta earn [...]
