My friend Luis, who was thinking hard and well about this stuff before he went to law school, co-links to my recent post on the blog-media-scholarship nexus and this Mike Madison post. There apparently is a discussion afoot in academic law circles about the blog, to whit: Is it scholarship? Madison suggests the question is …
Just so there’s no confusion, this is not me: At least, I think it’s not me. I’d remember that. Wouldn’t I?
Jeffrey Lewis with some amusing backstory on my story last week about Iran’s nuclear program.
reading: Linda Cordell’s Archaeology of the Southwest. This is one of those standards that you’re supposed to have lying around to refer to, but who actually reads these? (I am, actually. Great overview of what’s known.) music: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale doing Pipeline. Do they have waves in Texas? bonus extra track: Don …
I’ve been riding my bike to work lately when I can. I can’t always do it, because some days I need a car to go out on interviews. Herein lies my greenhouse guilt dilemma. According to this analysis, cycling to work will cause a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions over my lifetime. While in …
Proof I am not a one trick pony. Apparently Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Who knew?
Years ago Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were on Letterman, and Dave was complaining about the problem posed for movie audiences when one of them gave a movie a thumbs up and the other a thumbs down. Dave came up with a brilliant solution: he had them shoot basketball free throws for it. As many …
Let’s all pitch in and help Dave achieve his dream of owning the original S.S. Minnow. (And Dave – I’ve already got a goofy hat. Hint hint.)
Dave and I have been pondering the possibility of brawls breaking out at cricket matches, and knowing that some Inkstain readers come from cricket-enabled nations, I thought I’d throw the question out here. (Plus, I thought it’d be pretty cool to come in the top 10 Google searches for “cricket brawl.”) Do they head butt …
For my friends who churn out words and wonder why, Aaron’s writerly observations on ambitions and life: I dream of writing the Next Great Marketing Brochure. I know exactly what it’s like: it’s about five hundred words long, and it’s printed on glossy cardstock. People line up at trade shows to get a copy, and …