Category: articles
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Foundation Asimov Book Club Discussion
Foundation Asimov We’re going to talk about Isaac Asimov’s Foundation for today’s Book Club discussion. (The last two discussions were about The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Man in the High Castle, so feel free to go back to those posts and comment). Up next for book club discussions: Silence by Shusaku Endo — March 21st, 2017 Fletch by Gregory…
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Spillface — another Parengo Coffee Commercial
This Parengo Coffee Commercial makes fun of the typical local ads you see in small towns. Worked on it, like the others, alongside Mark N. Photo and Flying Treasure:
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Monomyth Definition: A Defense of The Hero’s Journey
Let me again pick up a standard that has fallen on our literary battlefield: the standard that marks the entrance of The Defender of The Common. It would seem a silly thing to need to defend common things, but in truth we have grown quite accustomed to tearing down good things simply because great things exist.…
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Catcall — Never Thought I’d Say this but Playboy and I Actually AGREE on Something
Okay, now I KNOW the world is ending. Playboy and I actually agree on whether or not a man should catcall a woman. FULL DISCLOSURE: Other than this particular infographic, I haven’t interacted with anything Playboy has put out since my good friends helped me kick a pornography addiction when I was a senior in highschool (class of 2005),…
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Bad Vinyl : horrible album covers and the angsty literary stories behind them
Bad Vinyl Album Covers In my ongoing creative collaboration with Mark N. Photo — a collaboration we’re starting to call The Brothers brothers — we started writing angsty literary stories for cheesy album covers Mark found at antique stores. It’s over on Tumblr: https://bad-vinyl.tumblr.com/post/156323515343/don-was-a-country-boy-alright-but-not-in-the https://bad-vinyl.tumblr.com/post/156583733378/they-had-been-eating-mashed-taters-when-deciding https://bad-vinyl.tumblr.com/post/156366071583/theyd-asked-pete-for-years-to-let-his-hair-down . . . cover image by andrechinn
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Parengo Coffee Commercials
Wrote the scripts for a series of four commercials for Parengo Coffee. The idea was to make fun of the lame, overwrought cologne commercials that emerged both before and after Brad Pitt’s atrocity right down to the overthought poetry and the italian accent you can’t quite understand. Worked with Mark N. Photo did the photography and…
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The Neoliberal Arts : How colllege sold its soul to the market
Thanks to C. Lance Williams of Parengo coffee for showing me the article The Neoliberal Arts: How college sold its soul to the market. It’s a brilliant piece that expounds on some of the ideas I tried to cover in the article I’m Proud of my Alma Mater for Getting Ranked “Lowest Return on Investment.” Here’s a sampling…
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Ethical Implications of a Moral Machine and a Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence Projects
In a bit of more cheery news, the top AI researchers have all AGREED on a list of ethical implications — almost an AI bill of rights — that need to be signed and accepted as industry standard for artificial intelligence projects. So far, about 760 developers and 1020 others have signed the agreement. I guess this will…
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Schaubert’s Law of Conspiracies
It seems presumptuous to title a law about conspiracies and conspiracy theories after oneself and yet it is the nature of these sorts of laws tend to end up titled after the last names of their authors anyways, so the title’s more of a resignation to convention than an outgrowth of arrogance or pretense. Obviously if this syllogism exists…
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Dark Disney : Zootopia Try Everything by Shakira
For your weekend entertainment, I give you a little cover song I did for this Dark Disney series. It’s that song from Zootopia Try Everything by Shakira. Have a great weekend, folks.
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Authoritarian Definition for Our Time : Experts Help Us Notice Changes
If you google “authoritarian definition” you’ll get something like: favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. …but that’s not particularly helpful for our time, particularly when it comes to noticing subtle changes that lead us down a dark road. Recently I joined Medium (even though…
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John Lithgow, The Crown Spinoff, and other musings
Tara and I seldom watch TV shows and movies — I’ve focused on doubling down to catch up on my reading. Having said that, we burned through The Crown during the holiday break and I have some thoughts, spoilery though they may be: For one, the series tends to focus on the tension between the two…