January 2010
15 posts
Technological divide
While reading Chronic City this morning, which I recommend, I was overrun with the idea of buying a small pocket sized dictionary that I could carry around with me at all times. I became excited at the prospects of a quest for such a dictionary. One with obscure enough words to be useful, but slim enough to prevent making my pocket look like a makeshift army tent. Small dusty bookstores and...
Basic Meteorology
Angelenos: A parasol is markedly different than an umbrella, such as an ascot is not a suitable substitution for a scarf.
Why Americans can't spell.
I before E except after C. And sometimes W. And occasionally H. Oh, and in the word science.
LAX or LASex? Two hours of waiting to take off with the foresight knowing it wont at all be worth it.
To fish in the pure streams of consciousness.
Life is full of irony and tradgedy. They usually copulate and birth my depression.
The Americanization of Mental Illness →
kateoplis:
For all our self-recrimination, we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization. We have for many years been busily engaged in a grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of mental health and illness. We may indeed be far along in homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
This unnerving possibility springs from recent research by...
Is it the present is so unmeasurable, so fleeting, that there is only a future and past? Or is it that the present is the only tangible thing in the universe?