I’m in SD for the Popular Culture Association conference, which is now officially under way. But let me tell you, getting here was an ordeal. Wake up at 2:30 am. Leave at 3 am for 90-minute drive to Buffalo Airport. Uneventful first leg, culminating in 2-hour layover in Philly. Flight from Philly to SD is 45 minutes late getting off

Cody Barstow at Mojo City News takes a little different approach to Hunter Thompson’s death than I did, and his recollections are very much worth a few moments. Start here and keep hitting “next”….

This year, for the first time in history that you know of, the Popular Culture Association has extended press credentials to bloggers. Truly, we live in an Age of Marvelous Technology. Ahem. Anyhow, I’ll be lightin’ outta here (that’s Southern for “leaving”) tomorrow morning (and by “morning” I mean “hours before the roosters wake up”) to attend PCA 2k5 in

Damn. Thanks to kyburg for pointing this out. Walk. Talk. You be the judge.

The Republican Party, the party of: less government state’s rights individual freedoms Yeah, them. They just rammed through Federal legislation removing the case of one individual from state purview. Up next before the Supreme Court: Big Brother v. Schiavo. By the way, the bigger a deal Bush and Congress make this, the less I believe it’s anything but a misdirection.

Lately I’ve been trying very hard to notice when the public eye is being dominated by the trivial and cynical. There’s always something important in the world that ought to be top-of-mind, so when politicians and their pet mainstream media institutions start devoting lots of attention to something of no real consequence, I want to step back and see what

“Disco Duck”? Come on, Jim. Look, I think we agreed, once upon a time, that disco was just too easy. And you really don’t want to go there with me. Your generation was generally too coked to the gills to remember the most egregious crimes against humanity committed by that “genre,” but my generation, well, we might as well have

John Lawrence at myths_americana offers a great read on the Wolfowitz appt. to the World Bank. FWIW, Lawrence’s blog continues to be absolute must reading for me….

See, sirpaulsbuddy knows better. He’s intentionally baiting me with this stuff, and assumes (despite past experience) that he can win this kind of exchange. He’s older and has more experience, he says. He forgets that my high school years were plagued by the curse that was disco, and as such, I have a far greater tolerance (if not love) for

Satan said to appear on turtle’s shell Associated Press MICHIGANTOWN, Ind. – Could it be… Satan? A central Indiana pet shop owner says a turtle that was the only animal to survive an October fire has developed an image of Satan’s face on its shell. (Registration required.) Bryan Dora says it looks like the devil wants us to know that

[Nicked from .] Okay, I’ll take a shot. Fellini, working with Flash, does a South Park episode while on acid?

Some folks have expressed an interest in knowing a bit more about my Communication, Technology & Christianity class since I posted the midterm from hell yesterday. If you’re so inclined, the course page is here, and it includes the syllabus, links to many of the readings, and a downloadable version of my dissertation, which is the primary text for the

sirpaulsbuddy implicates me here, and truly, the psychic damage he does in invoking the soundtrack of hell is completely uncalled-for. Anyway, as I recall, I sent him screaming from the room with something like “Playground in My Mind” by Clint Holmes. He had it coming.

No, I can’t make this stuff up, and if Somerville Desk Chief Debby Levinson doesn’t quit sending me this stuff I’m never going to get any work done. Couple Sells Candles That Smell Like Jesus Then read Heaneyland’s take on it….