Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
I have been very anxious lately. Neil Postman gently washed this away from my mind as I read Amusing Ourselves To Death. I choose this book because I have continually run into references to it in many print media outlets that I have been sequestered with these quarters. I remember this book being published, and [...]
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
This is an important article for the Evergreen community to read. As an Evergreen student it seemed that NO ONE on campus was talking about this story this morning. That makes me sad. The combination of avoiding the bureaucratic safeguards TESC has in place against graft and corruption and favoring family with public monies and [...]
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
I have been ingesting large swathes of Qin Dynasty and modern Chinese history, economy and culture. It is fed directly to me trough-style in the forms of books, articles, films and lectures. This has created an intellectual digestive problem “something akin to packing a musket” (Sedaris, 88-89). I am so full of cultural soil that [...]