what does an average middleclass person in the developed world have to really fight for? stand up for? do capital-S Something about? plenty ...

the other day, this lengthy stretch of fencing (branded nicely enough with so much black, white, and red to represent the construction compa...

today I'm revisiting a lot of old writing-- not really for any reason, just because. I always think there's possibilities for remix ...

yesterday, on a lark I looked at the date and trawled through my blogpost archive to find all the posts that just happened to be posted on F...

when I wrote this post about how differently temporary some things are , I wasn't thinking about colonial ruin and the violent displace...

what and who do you find easy to listen to vs. difficult to listen to? I've had reason to ponder this lately, mainly with regard to dive...

it was shady on the west face of Badger Mountain this morning. the inward corners between each ridge were especially cool. at the crest...

an old facebook friend of mine, a few days ago, shared this Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the inability of violence to bring peace . ...

sometimes you hear about the dearth of brilliant public intellectuals these days. where is our 21st-century Marshall McLuhan or Noam Chom...

I have been wanting to write something about this newsworthy mess that unfolded in Virginia ever since it happened over a month ago. but wh...

what if it were illegal to yell? part of me almost sort of likes that idea. criminalizing all the obnoxious, excess noise... 101 years a...

one thousand blogposts. it would be cool to make a chart or map or diagram of them all. I found these old sketches last week in old noteb...

not even the heady scent of fresh-mown grass or the sweep of springtime clouds and breezes--not even a strawberry ice cream cone --none of i...

I shared this quote with my students this week, pulling it up  right here where it lives on the little tumblr quote blog I keep. (who even ...

fall 2011 , my very first semester of grad school adventuring. I took a Bibliography class and a Publications Management class at Tech, wher...

this handy borrowed image here is my reaction to the section of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble we read this week for my Postmodernism semi...

I picked up Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet for a few moments at a party in October. sometimes, I behave rather anti-socially at partie...

if there are things you love on the internet, save copies of them. this is advice that Dr. Sullivan is alway giving us with respect to our w...