Any writer worth your time needs to be at least a little bit of a hedonist, if only so that he can describe fruit well.
As part of my ongoing “minimizing all the shit I own” project, I have been going through all these plastic tubs of notebooks I own and throwing out all the notebooks/notes that are really of no value to me as a writer.
I just came across some scrawled notes that I had completely forgotten about. They can only be an early idea for a blog...
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usagimomo:
Peek-a-boo! *-*
I am sitting here on hold with the state of California and I am going over some of my notes from last week’s Critical Theories of Literature class. The notes themselves are not terribly interesting unless you’re super into Psychoanalytic Criticism. However the bits scrawled in the margins are kind of fun (not all of the lecture is actually useful for studying later, but I...
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I have mentioned before that I have this kinda awesome job at the college library now working on an archiving project. Well the below pictures are some of the more interesting things I have come across lately. I love this job because my brain is calibrated to absorb the maximum amount of useless bullshit and because the stuff I have to do during the day doesn’t even feel like work! Mostly it just feels like stuff I would do for free if I was really, really bored. I (and the people I work with) are pretty much the modern version of those monks who saved civilization by writing everything down during the Dark Ages … basically.
A Brief History of Economics
15,000 BC - The Caves
Hey, I’ll trade you these two little rocks for that one big one.
2400 BC - Egypt
Build me some pyramids. I’m not going to pay you.
200 BC - Rome
Let’s structure our economy around slave labor in such a way that we have to spend all of our time and money acquiring new...
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It All Connects
We build islands
of thoughtless plastic
in gyres
wider than Texas,
without even trying.
Chinese manufacturing
is terrified of 3D printing
because their export economy
is plastic knick-knack-based.
“Who will buy
our spatulas now?!”
cry the spatula manufacturers of China.
So far, this free-market economy
has been relatively consequence free,
but Capitalism causes global warming.
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