A lot of people ask me why I don’t play more video games. Read the rest of this entry »

“Irrationality is the square root of all evil.” -Douglas Hofstadter. Read the rest of this entry »

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” -E. B. White Read the rest of this entry »

If you’d asked me yesterday what I thought of mime, I’d have told you, the art of mime is cliched, creatively bankrupt, and frankly unfathomable, both as a form of entertainment, on the one white-gloved hand, and as a career choice, on the other.    Read the rest of this entry »

Behold, the Ultimate Video Store Classification System (a thousand billion fanana-fana-fo-fillion kudos to anyone who can guess what kind of business I manage): Read the rest of this entry »

Name That Film:
Overburdened by technology he doesn’t quite understand, Will Smith uses his charm, wits, and determination to save the day against overwhelming odds in a world not his own. Read the rest of this entry »

“I went with nothing
But the thought you’d be there too,
looking for me.”

–Johnny Cash, “The Wanderer”

If the garden of Eden tale means anything to me, it means that human beings are not at home in the natural scheme they’re born into. The world as it is, is inhospitable, and to survive we must imagine worlds other than the one we’re in, and weigh them, and then work toward them. Read the rest of this entry »

“I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours,
But I think that God’s got a sick sense of humor,
And when I die, I expect to find him laughing.”

-Depeche Mode, “Blasphemous Rumours”

Theologians call it the problem of evil, or the mystery of iniquity… if God’s all-knowing and all-powerful and good, why do things like ebola virus, the holocaust, and televangelists exist? Read the rest of this entry »

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” Gustave Flaubert

Is fiction false? I’ve heard it asked (or asserted) in various forms hundreds of times in my life. But the question’s too simple.

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We all like the sound of equality, and for the most part we honor the notion of legal equality as the bedrock of a sane and fair world. Nevertheless, a billion and one inequalities always impinge on our efforts at equality, and it’s hard to know by what just standard we might ever affirm one entity’s legal inequality-one might say, legal superiority-over another. Read the rest of this entry »

In the Beginning was the Word, Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the guest house of my head. Read the rest of this entry »