Today Mr. Husband has been packing up 3,000 LPs, more or less, and uncovering all sorts of relics wedged in with them. Among those was a program for Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules tour, which would be 1981-ish. I love the … Continue reading
After-dinner chalk art.
Le ballonby ddbparis (Via @jspad)
More like the two weeks that were, actually. Two days after my defense, we headed out to house-hunt in Syracuse. We made a road trip out of it, of course, and stopped at the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkart, … Continue reading
From Iggy Pop’s new album, Preliminaires. Much softer and vaguely reminiscent of some of the early acoustic demos… but really completely different.
What do you remember of making the Lust for Life album?The title track was taken from a TV theme and written on a kid’s ukelele. He [Bowie] just said, “Call that Lust for Life,” which I think he’d cribbed from … Continue reading
I defended the dissertation this afternoon. It was an unexpectedly satisfying exercise, and I’m lucky to have worked with this particular committee. I’m not quite sure what else to say about the experience at the moment. I can tell you, … Continue reading
Short-short by Miranda July and John C. Reilly.
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
