Last week’s links
A half dozen of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Reworked pop songs Reworked Virginia Woolf Violent future? Violent media? Pianos that play themselves Papers that write themselves
Driving while . . . mulatto [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 30 Nov 2006. Michael Omi was on campus tonight, where he gave a smart and engaging talk: “The Contradictions of Colorblindness: Race and Its Discontents.” During the Q&A period, two different audience members — …
Video of the week
I eagerly await someone equally creative finding a way to perform “96 Tears” using nothing but teardrops, and “16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six” using nothing but a rifle.
Ten books
If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably seen some version of the “Ten Books” meme. A friend there tagged me, and I agreed to follow through … but I’d rather do so here. Partially because it’s a way for me to keep up my renewed commitment to blogging regularly, but also …
Stuart Hall
When Stuart Hall died earlier this year, I felt the urge to post one of my favorite quotes from his work to Facebook. It was a very small gesture, of course. And I was hardly alone in doing so. My Facebook feed was flooded with similar quotes from dozens of …
Last week’s links
A half dozen of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Birds who don’t need thumbs. Trustees who don’t need ethics. TSA agents who don’t need logic. Taxation that needs representation. A team that needs a new name. Surveillance that needs to end.
More “fun” with IP [Rerun Sunday]
My old blog still exists, but I haven’t touched it in a long while, and I’m gradually trying to migrate my major online presence over here. So I can envision a day, somewhere down the line, where “Revolution on a Stick” goes away. In the meantime, though, Sundays feel like …
My old school
Yesterday’s snail mail brought me the latest in a nearly two-decade (and counting) series of requests from the University of Illinois to be a good alumnus and send them some money. Bracketing (at least for this post) the tenaciousness with which universities stalk their alums and beg for money, I …
Fail to the R******s
The off-the-field headlines from the NFL have been exceptionally bleak lately. Ray Rice. Adrian Peterson. Greg Hardy. Ray McDonald. It’s hardly surprising that lots and lots and lots of people are pissed off. And rightly so. But there’s one NFL owner who must be very happy to see all this …