I never bothered to point out that Discharge 5 started up some time ago. Really good stuff from these cats. I was kind of sad to see the end of Discharge 4 (except, you know, I never really did like much of cocainejesus’ art. just sayin’). I will be getting the chapbook if I can [...]

… For and Acted Upon Through Diversions might be the most singularly relaxing album I’ve listened to in quite some time. Venice Is Drowning’s Azar comes close (although it does have vocals). Both are complex and not entirely “soft” (although neither goes batshit punk-rock hard either). I’ve also been jamming out to Black Moth Super [...]

Some of these make me think of the face-hugger from Alien. Which means that some women just have crazy looking vaginas. Some are just average looking. And only a few have really honest-to-goodness aesthetically pleasing cooters. A few girls I’ve known have been bashful of their naughty bits, although this might make them realize how [...]

Is exactly what it sounds like. Only the Spaniards would have the balls to pull something like this off and call it art. This qualifies as worthwhile to my personal aesthetics. Too bad I live in a country where this is called pornography.

Apparently (news to me!) poet laureate Billy Collins will be participating in my University’s annual writer’s conference. He’ll be doing a reading in the PAC at a time conveniently scheduled at the same time as my Humanities class, where I’ll be learning about… something. Damn. Word is he’s also scheduled to give a workshop to [...]

It’s the name of the book I have for the poetry section of my Creative Writing course. While I’m not a particularly huge fan of poetry (my poetry collection is limited to some Billy Collins, the collected works of Lorca and two or three Bukowski books) I’ve found the book to be useful. I actually [...]

Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go Nearly six years ago, I wrote a column called “So You Want to Go to GradSchool?” (The Chronicle, June 6, 2003). My purpose was to warn undergraduatesaway from pursuing Ph.D.’s in the humanities by telling them what I had learnedabout the academic labor system from personal observation [...]

What do Women Want? The men, on average, responded genitally in what Chivers terms “category specific” ways. Males who identified themselves as straight swelled while gazing at heterosexual or lesbian sex and while watching the masturbating and exercising women. They were mostly unmoved when the screen displayed only men. Gay males were aroused in the [...]

These guys are gonna start making the film again. Fuck yeah! Hipster artists everywhere rejoice!