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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 74: Dan Harmon thinks the world sucks and it's ironic

April 7, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I love Dan Harmon. I listen to his Harmontown podcast weekly (Julie turned me onto it because I loved Community and now she has moved on from it but I’m a Harmonian). This week, Harmon[…]

Day 71: If you're an academic and you hate students…

April 3, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

We’re a day removed from my week of wrestling geekdom, and in response to that, I want to start this week with a wrestling style promo. *cues theme music, pyro, walks slowly to ring as[…]

Day 62: The Hill to Die On

March 25, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. -That Shakespeare guy, from Henry[…]

Day 61: A Survivance Manifesto (for all)

March 24, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“Survivance is an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name. Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry.” – Gerald Vizenor, from Manifest[…]

Day 57: the power of RNG

March 20, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today I was reading over this piece about Hearthstone. The concept of four types of randomness in a game is interesting, but what struck me about the piece in particular is the concept of acceptable[…]

Day 55: Safety in the new America

March 19, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’ve said to just about anyone who would listen that I felt like the real change from the Obama presidency to the Trump one is that with Obama we had the symbology and pretense of[…]

Day 52: so for a generation we got Warpath

March 15, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“Said it was blue When your blood was red That’s how ya got a bullet blasted through your head” -Zack de la Rocha, who I quote all the time, “Bullet in Your Head” from RAtM[…]

Day 51: Day 50 Director's cut: Zeroed out Dawns and Zero Sum Games

March 15, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

This was the original version of my Day 50 post that I chose to re-write at the last minute because I felt bad calling out comments. I decided after talking with a few people that[…]

Day 50: Zero Sum Game and race relations

March 14, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Yes, I know my enemies! They’re the teachers who taught me to fight me! Compromise! Conformity! Assimilation! Submission! Ignorance! Hypocrisy! Brutality! The elite! All of which are American dreams! -Zack de la Rocha, “Know Your[…]