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I Won’t Be Needing That Anymore
I have a Master’s degree from Yale. It’s something I did when I was young and foolish, and beyond its maybe getting people to pay a little more attention to me in job interviews and the like than they might have otherwise, it hasn’t proven to be of much value. It certainly hasn’t been worth… — read more
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New Year, New WordPress
WordPress released WordPress 2 yesterday, so I thought I’d upgrade for the new year. The whole process, including back-ups and other administrative efforts, took less than an hour and went without a hitch. I haven’t encountered any problems with the site, comments, RSS feed, etc. If you see any problems, let me know. I continue… — read more
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To Make Is To Break
The second half of Harold Bloom’s Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, his meditation on the figure of Yahweh, has as one of its touchstones Bloom’s insight that the title character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the only character in Western literature that we can believe is capable of writing the work in which he appears.… — read more
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New Camera
Yesterday, Eric met me at B & H to help me pick out a new camera. As I waited for Eric outside, watching hordes of people pile into the store, I pondered the advisability of going into such a place two days after Christmas. It turns out that, despite the masses of people shopping there,… — read more
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More End of the Year
More and more lists of the best albums of the year are being posted, and, for whatever reason, I’m finding them all very interesting. So interesting that, with a gift certificate I got from my employer, I got a bunch of the albums mentioned, including: Black Sheep Boy – Okkervil River Stephen Malkmus – Face… — read more
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It’s a Helluva Town
It seems to be the time of year for lists–what’s good about New York, what’s bad about New York–but I particularly like Gawker‘s list of 123 reasons to love New York. My personal favorite: 114. Because everyone’s painfully human, even the staff of the New York Times. New York: It’s not all about the transit… — read more
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Let the Year End Begin
Pitchfork has released their list of the “Top 50 Albums of 2005.” It’s a pretty good looking list, and for the first time in years I’m actually in a position to say so. I already have ten albums on the list (and I’ll probably get more), which isn’t bad for someone hurtling into middle age.… — read more
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I Got E-Mail from Bono!
I don’t think Bono reads my Weblog. I’m disappointed, but not surprised. — read more
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Let the Backlash Begin
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at the moment. And so begins Paul Theroux‘s refutation of Bono’s loud and ultimately misguided bid to become Africa’s savior, which has since gotten him named, with… — read more
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The Way of All Utopias
MTV has announced that they’ll partner with Microsoft, rather than Apple, to sell media over the Internet. Says MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler: “[Apple Chief Executive] Steve Jobs has a point of view,” Toffler said. “ITunes is about a digital storefront for a la carte downloads. Our goal is to create a utopian… — read more
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