When I was in high school, I was as “rough” as I am now, which is to say I’d protest and I was good for a verbal sparring, but I wasn’t a fighter. When you’re[…]
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Day 185: the Attitude Era
No, I’m not talking about wrestling– at least not specifically– today, though that is their moniker. I’ve been dipping more and more into Reddit this summer. My old philosophy was to avoid Reddit, as back[…]
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Day 184: The Middle
This marks the post over the middle point. I made it half a year. Crazy, right? And to mark this auspicious occasion, I’m going to write about something I’ve been batting around in the back[…]
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Day 183: Quick Rhetoric for the Day: Pardoning oneself
I want to start by reminding people of the definition of “pardon:” “to use the executive power of a Governor or President to forgive a person convicted of a crime, thus removing any remaining penalties[…]
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Day 182: WWE and Race
I just finished watching WWE’s Battleground, the main event of which was a “Punjabi Prison” match between Jinder Mahal (the WWE champion) and Randy Orton. Mahal won due to interference from both of the Singh[…]
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Day 181: A year ago today
I’m sure everyone has heard of the American dream. No, not Dusty Rhodes, the “own a home, two car garage, picket fence” one. I always sort of assumed that would be one of the many[…]
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Day 180: A boy who looks like Elvis
This is another Indianapolis story. I mentioned this yesterday, but it bears repeating today. Julie asked me after reading that post if me and my friends (and his brother) didn’t also meet Iggy Pop, which[…]
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Day 179: I was a 20-something Passenger
This is a story. When I was an undergraduate, I lived an interesting chapter of my life. For one thing, my mother was divorced from my step-father (who I will refer to as Mr. Piece[…]
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Day 178: Old school vs. new school
In my rant-fuel post yesterday, I made a brief reference to one of the things I think is tearing academia apart (other than the arrogance that was the title of that post): the changes between[…]
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Day 177: Arrogance
Coming out of a several day long reflection on my own identity, I feel like this is the time to reflect back on something else I have talked about here before: the attitudes of other[…]
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