think they meant “ouroboros capital management”
Cerberus Capital Management, whose largest institutional investors include the California State Teachers’ Retirement System and TIAA-CREF (the latter handles my meager retirement accounts), purchases...
View Article“have you been to the edge?”: photo caption contest
Need more interactivity, hereabouts. Donc a photo for you to caption: The NYT explains what the image is here. What are you waiting for? Get captioning, or I’ll make you watch the Gorbi Pizza Hut ad...
View Articleobsolete forms
We wait for the image, the conjunction, that will blind us or make us at last see, that will reset the operating system and let us move under a power “not our own” but all our own, just differently,...
View Articleambient uncanny
(I’ve been having trouble getting the videos to embed correctly in this one. They work for me if I push play. I wonder how they work for you. If you have trouble, leave a comment and I’ll keep working...
View Articleworldtownsoundtrack
go read jane dark now! Kala might be thought of as an attempt to destroy the softimism of world music™. Hands up guns out — represent now world town. The album moves past the bubbly syncretism of...
View Articleoneiric overground
The London Overground is a very strange thing indeed. If you’ve only ever visited London, it’s likely that you’ve never used it. While the Underground generally plunges straight from the fringes into...
View Article“we just saw the ground, you know what’s goin on?”
Was just now talking to a student about inverted, negative ways of making meaning. Actually two students in a row – Victorian nonsense verse, Woolf’s Jacob’s Room. And now I’m listening to the ATC...
View Articleour robots, ourselves
oooo baby i like how you say "holloway road" Got a ride to work today in a removal van that I hired to transport all but ten or so of my books that remained at my house to my office at the university....
View Articledysekphrasis, heavenly art of the bubble, i’d like your help
There’s an audience participation opportunity to come at the end of this post, so don’t skip the end if you want to play along at home and win great prizes! But to start, here’s a fantastic moment...
View Articlethe talking cure: ads that speak back
I remember, as a kid, having several books of BASIC programs, mostly games, that I could dutifully type into my IBM PC, save on a a floppy to play again and again. One of them, which I remember...
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