A blast from the past, Negativland’s “Time Zones,” parts of which are forever stuck in my head.  I’d never before seen this rather excellent animation of it:  

This is the American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week,” an event they’ve held since 1982.  It just so happens that I’m teaching Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the moment, one of the most-often challenged books in the canon of American literature (it was No. 5 on the list for 1990-1990).  Google is a partner [...]

Most people don’t understand science, even on the most basic level.  Put more specifically, most people don’t understand scientific skepticism–the obligatory frame of mind from which one must view scientific research in order to benefit from it.  Maintaining doubt, if you’re unused to it, hurts your head.  Certainty certainly feels better.  It has an aesthetic advantage vis-a-vis [...]

A friend on Facebook has put together a group called “Old School F’ville” (account required) for documenting and sharing artifacts from a particularly rich time in the history of Fayetteville, Arkansas‘s underground music scene.  So I’ve been digging through my archives.  Here are the ones I’ve contributed (no account required).  If you were a part [...]

A week ago today, my wife’s father, Tom, died of a heart attack.  We headed back to Fayetteville last week to make preparations and attend the funeral, which was at St. Paul’s.  I was asked to give the eulogy.  We had been there about a month prior for Haden‘s christening.  We got back into town [...]