Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class …
September 21, 2010 – 4:24 am
Joe
He was born in South Africa, in Johannesburg, in 1934; May 5th — but even about this I only have …
August 12, 2010 – 9:39 am
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
September 30, 2009 – 2:20 pm
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …
June 13, 2008 – 5:01 pm
jan dunning
When the Liberals won the elections in 2004, my only consolation was that shortly after I departed for a few …
June 12, 2008 – 6:29 pm
chingiz aitmatov
I only recently discovered him, and was looking forward to reading The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, when …
August 1, 2007 – 2:07 pm
michelangelo antonioni
Blowup was one of those films that changed how I look at cinema, and then how I imagined performance. Early …
March 8, 2007 – 2:25 pm
… and death
Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made …
March 7, 2007 – 2:15 pm
jean baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard died. I’m so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in …
September 4, 2006 – 9:35 pm
I’m gonna jam my thumb in its butthole now!
Last night’s amusement was provided by old Season 2 dvds of South Park (thank you Cantonese dvd pirates). I was …
May 5, 2005 – 2:02 am
one law for them another for the rest of us
Eugene McGee is a lawyer. He got drunk, drove and killed a cyclist. He didn’t stop because he didn’t want …
December 29, 2004 – 3:02 pm
goodbye susan
Susan Sontag died yesterday. The New York Times has a long obituary to one of the greatest writers of the …
October 10, 2004 – 3:47 pm
jacques is dead
Jacques Derrida is dead. I met him in 1997, when I was at VCA and Elizabeth Presa had organised the …