This is the future – people, translated as data. – Bryce, Network 23 The future has always interested me, even when it scares me to death. I wrote a doctoral dissertation that spent a good deal of time examining our culture’s ideologies of technology and development, for instance (and built some discussion of William Gibson and cyberpunk into the mix).
Read moreApparently Ellen DeGeneres has this feature where people send her horrid photos of themselves – it’s called Bad Paid-For Photos. Great idea and laugh-so-hard-you-cry-on-your-keyboard-while-people-in-surrounding-cubicles-wonder-what’s-going-on funny. Surely we can squeeze a little mileage out of this compilation of trainwrecks. So we’ll show you a photo, and in the comment box below you provide us with a backstory. On your mark, get
Read moreIn addition to being a blogger and a marketing whore, I’m a poet. Actually, that’s what I enjoy the most and what I’m best at. Sadly, poetry doesn’t pay the way I’d like. Still, I do it because it matters a great deal to me. Lately I’ve been writing more and thinking more about how I can better promote my
Read moreAs I’m sure you’ve heard, Mad Men is quite hot right now. I haven’t watched it yet, although I plan on renting season one in the near future because everybody I know tells me it’s the greatest thing since the invention of vacuum tubes. For those who don’t know anything about the behind-the-scenes machinations of the agency world, I imagine
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In 2003 I was fortunate enough to have a collection of my poems published as the featured chapbook in The Dead Mule, one of the finest publications of Southern literature in the country. Since then TDM has undergone some changes and my chapbook is no longer available in their archive. So I thought I’d pull it all together and make
Read moreWe don’t often do posts just for the purpose of linking other stories, but today we’re making an exception because Ian Welsh just nails it. Go. Read. This. Now. It’s the right thing to do.
Read moreFinally … The Birthday Massacre … has come back … to Denver. They’re headlining tonight at The Marquis, and here’s hoping some of S&R’s Denver-area friends will join me in a little head-banging. Here’s a preview:
Read moreCourtesy of comedian Tim Hawkins, today’s TunesDay is dedicated to S&R’s own rock star, who flips another year on the calendar this Saturday. He knows who he is.
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A friend and colleague passed along a Gizmodo article today entitled “What exactly is a doctorate?” First, take a second to look it over, and make sure you sift through the comments, as well, because I think they’re important to the point I want to make. I’ll begin by acknowledging three important things. First, the writer (Dr. Matt Might of
Read moreGet your weekend on, folks.
Read moreMore evidence of ecological catastrophe in the wake of the BP oil spill. Directed by our friend Lee Camp.
Read moreI’m not normally a slam guy. I’m a poet, and slam poetry tends to be more about the performance and less about the words, per se. That’s a generalization, I know, and there are exceptions. Most slam I see has more in common with hip-hop than poetry. All that said, this guy is amazing.
Read moreWillie Mays had “the catch.” Ozzie had that ridonculous reach-back grab where he’s diving left as the ball hits a rock and hops the other way on him. Jim Edmonds made a spectacular full lay-out dive running directly away from the plate that’s maybe awesomer than both. But sonofabitch, you gotta see this grab. It answers the question “what if
Read moreYeah, I don’t know, either. It’s fun, though. Stop whatever you’re doing and dance.
Read moreThere are several ways of evaluating a blog’s place in the food chain. The one we’ve always paid the most attention to is Technorati, a search and ranking site that indexes well over 850,000 blogs. If you’re interested in learning more about how Technorati operates, you can review this overview at DollarShower.com. Anyway, as of this morning, Scholars & Rogues
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