eg. “Is that your sprocket?” “Yes, that sprocket belongs to me.”
May 7, 2004
Not a scientific poll
Quick: Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Dr. No, or From Russia with Love? I’ve got a couple of hours to kill. update: poll is now closed. Thanks to all who participated.
May 7, 2004
Top 10 Other Things George Bush Owes the World an Apology For
With apologies to these guys (whom Bush also owes the world an apology for, come to think of it)… 10. The Bay of Pigs fiasco. 9. “Perfect Strangers.” Or at least Balki. 8. Every Woody Allen movie after Bullets Over Broadway. 7. That whole Donovan McNabb / Rush Limbaugh thing. And Michael Irvin, so long as we’re fessing up. 6. (Tie) Vegan “chicken” wings. Vegan “corn dogs.” 5. My first girlfriend, Lori Levin, who cheated on
May 7, 2004
Parallel Universes
Those close to me know that for years I’ve dreamed of heading north and becoming an Impossiblist. I’ve got the cape, the spangled tux, the collection of situation-specific magical hats. Hell, I can even hypnotize angry chickens in a matter of seconds, given enough quiet and the right mixture of feed and barbituates. But after seeing how the Canadian television industry has turned its back on Reveen! — a veritable
May 7, 2004
John Bender has a message for Claire Standish
Bender: “Sweets. You couldn’t ignore me if you tried.”
May 7, 2004
Conspiracy theory
Guess those of you who thought we were the same person are feeling pretty stupid right about now, huh? Two words to keep in mind for the next time you feel compelled to publish your “theories”: Occam’s freakin’ Razor, my man. Occam’s freakin’ Razor.
May 7, 2004
My postmodern dream text, or, the recounting of a poor night’s sleep
….Gadamer’s so-called “problem of application” can be understood as the problem of adapting the meaning of a text to a specific interpretive instance — to the concrete historical situation of the interpreter… But Gadamer is wrong, bless him… …going beyond an author’s original intentions in order to make a text mean something more than the author meant, is changing the text, not properly “interpreting” it. This act of “creative supplementing”
May 7, 2004
My postmodern dream text, or, the recounting of a poor night’s sleep
….Gadamer’s so-called “problem of application” can be understood as the problem of adapting the meaning of a text to a specific interpretive instance — to the concrete historical situation of the interpreter… But Gadamer is wrong, bless him… …going beyond an author’s original intentions in order to make a text mean something more than the author meant, is changing the text, not properly “interpreting” it. This act of “creative supplementing”