(As some of you know, I’m pursuing my goal of reading and blogging about 50 books this Lunar New Year, which means before next February. I have a feeling I’ll be beating that, of course, at this rate, but nonetheless, I will continue to number books all the way along.) Book #7: Søren Kierkegaard’s Attack on “Christendom” (Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by Walter Lowrie, and a New Introduction by Howard A. Johnson) I think I shall let Kierkegaard sum up the book, since he does it so much better than I can: Think of a hospital. The patients …
Month: March 2005
on Postmodernism
I don’t have much to post here, today, but there’s an interesting discussion going on over on the blog I co-run with Marvin, The New Sophists’ Almanac. Currently the discussion seems focused on postmodernism, what it’s really all about, how it relates to science (ie. what’s wrong with it), and I’ve posted what I think can be done to fix the mess. The posts appear in reverse order of appearance, so you may wish to go to the first one in the series and work your way to the newest by clicking on the post title to the right of …
Textbook Authors? Would-Be Pundits?
If you ever get a hankering to write a textbook, here are some useful rules to follow. UPDATE: And if you ever want to be a right-wing pundit, here is a brilliant, perfect guide.
Weird Korean Music Video
The first Korean music video that showed up on the Korean MSN page that loads automatically in Windows Media Player because I am in Korea. This isn’t an ecxample of a good video, it’s absolute cheese, but for those friends of mine abroad, it’s a pretty encyclopedic index of gestures, stock facial expressions, plot moments in romance movies, clichéd actions, locations (the comic book shop, the stationery store, the whorehouse…), stock characters—the whore with the heart of gold, the young, sweet man who nonetheless kinda has a thing for screwing hookers, but changes his ways, the radio announcer who is …
Social Security Scammers
Ha, Fafblog. Ha, say it, brother.