Monthly Archives: July 2011

Cover Story

31st
Jul. × ’11
By Roderick

The Civil Wars cover one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs (indeed one of my favourite songs of all time): Lissie covers Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”: Juliana Richer Daily (is that her real name or her financial ambition?) does likewise: Lissie seems torn between wanting to make the song her own and wanting to imitate [...]

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A Heartwarming Reunion

29th
Jul. × ’11
By Roderick
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Alas, Babylon

28th
Jul. × ’11
By Roderick

J. Michael Straczynski just sent out the following rather disappointing email. (Well, I guess I can’t strictly say I’m disappointed, since I hadn’t known there was anything to get appointed about.) Last year, the studio offered a full season of a new and rebooted B5 as part of a new distribution venue they were creating [...]

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Kevin Carson Speaks!

28th
Jul. × ’11
By Roderick

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Thompson will not speak to you tonight. His time is up. I have taken it over. You were to hear a report on the world crisis. That is what you are going to hear. For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is Kevin Carson? This is Kevin Carson speaking. I’ve [...]

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The Cloister of Cognition

27th
Jul. × ’11
By Roderick

I’ve been talking epistemology with a student here at Mises U. this week, and at one point I wrote up a couple of pages for him. So I thought I’d share them with the rest of you: I take your view to be as follows: that genuine knowledge includes a) awareness of our own subjective [...]

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Time Can Be Recoloured

27th
Jul. × ’11
By Roderick

I’m ordinarily not a fan of colourisation (to put it mildly), but I find Stuart Humphryes’ work on scenes from Doctor Who’s black and white era quite charming. (And notice how much more interesting the TARDIS’s central column looks.)

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