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Day 76: Something Old

April 9, 2017 phillmemoir

I was looking at an essay I might or might not revise today. This section struck me. Here’s some Phill-circa-2013. Jean Baudrillard wrote: It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor[…]

Day 75: Lies my "Parents" told me part 1 (a new series)

April 8, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

The other night, inexplicably, I had a dream I was stuck in one of my favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an episode titled “Lies My Parents Told Me.” To keep from doing a[…]

Day 70: Wrestlemania Week VIII: The Ultimate Warrior

April 2, 2017 phillbizarre motivational Phill

I miss Warrior. I’m going to update this post later with the full story of my interactions with him, but for those who have never heard me talk about it, Warrior was a friend of[…]

Day 64: Wrestlemania Week II: Hulk/Hollywood Hogan

March 27, 2017 phillmemoir

My mom took me to see the match above. We also went to Hara Arena to see the Closed Circuit of WM III, where Hogan first body slammed Andre the Giant. I didn’t exactly know[…]

Day 53: Villains

March 16, 2017 phillmemoir

This is a revised version of a little musing I had a while back. I used to teach with Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity as a course reading, and part of what I did in those[…]

Day 48: The Half-life of Collecting

March 11, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I collect Funko Pop figures. I have… a bunch. Like over 150 of them. That’s not nearly as much as some of the collectors you can find on Reddit, but it’s still a significant number[…]

Day 42: Mine!

March 5, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“Don’t touch that. That’s mine!” -Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern from Green Lantern Earlier this week I wrote about the fact that Native American cultures, generally speaking, didn’t have the sense of ownership that Westerners have.[…]

Day 36: Inductive Cultures

February 28, 2017 phillmemoir

There is one criticism I receive frequently about my work. It might be the only consistent criticism I can think of that has persisted for years: I construct inductive arguments while academia expects deductive arguments.[…]

Day 34: Do these things ever really end? This post might make you uncomfortable

February 26, 2017 phillmemoir

“Ambassador Daniel Fried, the outgoing coordinator for sanctions policy, did not mention President Donald Trump or speak directly to his policies, but the State Department officials present understood his meaning when he said ‘we are[…]

Day 32: A conversation that scared the crap out of me

February 23, 2017 phillmemoir

“Well I’ve seen some old friends sort of die/or just turn into whatever must have been inside them/whatever all of us had then in common/we grew up/we left home/we don’t think that way no more.”[…]