“Finally, in Part VI, I will argue that the greatest problems we face are cruelty, misery, hierarchy, and loneliness. Those issues should be at the center of any consideration of what we should do and how we should live.” – Joseph William Singer, Yale Law Journal. (94 Yale L.J. 1) Never thought I’d be at [...]
“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ” In defense of my “Politically Correct” moments. Thanks for putting up with me, guys.
Takes the mantle from The National’s 2010 High Violet. Def worth digging back up from the spring thaw.
“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.”
WANTED: These two, for the crime of ouch ouch you wanna go how many miles today? 30 miles? Felt great in the early Arkansas autumn, looking forward to going back for more next Sunday.
Little Rock bro-of-note Michael Inscoe has been doing some interesting thinking on, and exercising of, the… umm.. well, the  union  of everything and conveyance in our state of media ubiquity. The above is my nod to a recent little wisdom of his. Go ahead, jump on through to the surface. The landing’s pretty smooth. Michael is [...]
“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
A little late in processing these, but I’m happy to confirm that the second annual Little Rock SXSW trip bested the year prior’s. Great food, better music, the best people and some early sunshine. Highlights: Zilker Park swimming, a surprise Toro y Moi set, and the Eastside Showroom’s vintage, fancy cocktails from mason jars.
In the past few years, a lot of my favorite Arkansans have set up shop in Brooklyn. And they’ve been doing some cool stuff. Steve and Heath started a production company. Jack kept working with his band Life Size Pizza. The three joined forces, and behold: “El Diablo” Both of these outfits keep getting better [...]