lil baby ain’t all grown up yet, but I need the freedom of being able to work on the design and scripting for this blog. I’ve hosted my own domain as Siteground for quite some time and just got around to buying the extra hosting slot. There’s hardly any change at all aside from the fact that the new url doesn’t contain the intrusive wordpress name in the address itself. Rest assured wordpress fans, I’ll keep using the WordPress platform.  I am fond of it indeed. ... Read Full Story

I’ll be leaving WordPress.com (not that it hasn’t been fun). Putting together my site at writingforants.com. It’s still in progress, but coming along. Start updating your bm’s. http://writingforants.com Read Full Story

Like so many, I’ve been involved in various projects, and have not had time to keep up with what’s been going on in my online network. Last night, I recorded the Mets vs. D’Backs game but fell asleep somewhere in the fifth inning. John Maine cracks me up. He pitches well, but not perfect. But he gets so mad at himself. If he throws a ball, he just starts fuming. He gets so frustrated that even after a strikeout, he’s not happy. I guess he wants to pitch the whole game,... Read Full Story

Glue > GLU > Gregory L. Ulmer The first is Will Pappenheimer’s image taken from the preface to Glue’s Electronic Monuments (2005). The second is from Joel Weishaus’s interview with Glue that appeard in Postmodern Culture in 1998. I was reading it this morning and struck by how current and helpful it is. I could work through it, comment on it, and do an analysis, and all that, but that would ruin it. This is the ethical position of listening. As Byron Hawk describes r... Read Full Story

Ok, let’s face it. Staten Island isn’t really New York. Nevermind New York City. It’s not really even New York state. Here’s a satellite image of the New York area. I love looking at the natural terrain. Here’s a closer image. In this picture, I give you a sense of where things are. If you look right to the left of Manhattan, you’ll see the Hudson. On the other side is New Jersey. It’s just beautiful over on the esplanade looking over to Jersey City... Read Full Story

The Ning site for the Institute is up and running. It’s just getting out of the gate. People have signed up, some additions have been made, but we haven’t begun to spend significant time there. I feel confident that if people start to see it as a place where they can do a lot of their work, that more activity will occur there, but there are a few who are relatively active. Of the 20 or so faculty in the institute, 17 have signed up. Some of these, however, are grad students and no... Read Full Story

Thought I’d share this. Portishead’s new album is coming out April 29. Here’re some words from John Pareles. This clip is from their 1994 album Dummy. Portishead, Massive Attack, P.J. Harvey, Nick Cave. This is what’s on the ipod now. The following song is “Roads.” Enjoy. Take a moment. Relax. Ohh, can’t anybody see We’ve got a war to fight Never found our way Regardless of what they say How can it feel, this wrong From this moment How can it fe... Read Full Story

Spoiler: If you are one of the three people in the country who has not seen There Will Be Blood, then you won’t want to read this post. Very busy around Brooklyn this week. I could start many places, but Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing, you may have heard, never was brought to the floor for a vote. I read some interesting articles about urban renewal, and I hear that in Long Island City (It’s one of those more urban Queens nabes) the city is planning on building lattic... Read Full Story

I’ve got to say bravo the Wordpress folks for the upgrade they did on the Dashboard, but I know it’s going to take a little while to get used to it. I know that Wordpress 2.5 was just released. I don’t know if this new design is consistent with the new version of Wordpress or something else all together (I haven’t installed two five on my other blog yet). Looking over the comments under Matt’s post on the new design, people were pretty shocked that the change ha... Read Full Story

New post coming this weekend on Michael Greenberger’s recent talk with Terry Gross on Fresh Air (NPR). Trying now to get it all together. Read Full Story