I ran into something interesting in my recent research. At first it seemed like a typo, but the more I dug the more I realized it was a cascading array of sloppy, mis-matched quoting amounting to a fascinating and hilarious mis-representation of words. It began with the portion of my dissertation where I describe chronotopes. [...]
My trip to Cape Breton by way of motorcycle was quite the long haul. In total, I turned 5,739 miles, visiting fifteen states and two Canadian provinces. The majority of my time, however, was spent on Cape Breton Island, in Grand Narrows on the Barra Straight. I also stayed in Glace Bay, Sydney, Christmas Island, [...]
Quite some time ago, Roger Ebert was quoted as having said that “video games can never be art,” after which a horde of gamers smashed their angry fingers on keyboards struggling to shout into blog commentaries, “how dare you!” and “yes they can, to infinity!” and “he just doesn’t get it!” and similar rebuttals. The [...]
Vomito Negro’s new album Skull & Bones arrived last week, and I’ve been jamming out ever since. The music is simple but artfully programmed and mastered, and the second remakes disc is equally as impressive. As far as EBM goes, it’s certainly dance-able music, but it is definitely old school EBM to the core. Vomito [...]
