Deconstructionism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StxlzrduJ14

Fear The Jar

After reading certain blogs it has come to my attention that "Anecdote of a Jar" is open to a feminist reading. I wish to point out that it can also be seen from an anti-feminist perspective. One can see the jar as a feminine object. One could view it as a glass vagina. A glass vagina which gains dominion over everything and sucks the life from it. It's the kind of reaction the Archie Bunker type males might have to feminism.

No offense.

(I do not ascribe to an anti-feminist viewpoint)

Stuck on Structuralism

I don't care much for structuralism. Which is to say: I believe in it and am made worse for my belief. Structuralism is the tar baby of determinism. It offends one's sense of self so that one feels obliged to lash out against it (In the hope of invalidating it) but each blow brings only an increasing awareness of its inescapable truth. To my way of thinking we are what we think. I canno0t recall having a thought unexpressed through language. The language my thoughts are expressed in was developed long before my birth by complete strangers. So, who am I? If my thoughts are me, and said thoughts are all expressed in a language I had no part in creating, then to what extent is who I am dictated by the syntax of the English language?

It's enough to make a man turn to religion.

Set Phasers to Pun

I envy entomologists.
Those guys got it made in the shade.

On Feeling Published and Punished

Greetings dudes and dudettes, welcome to my first blog. It took me 2 hours to set up. Of that 2 hours 99.9% of the time was spent on the seemingly impossible task of developing a good title. It was a tense 2 hours in which more than 20 titles were considered and found wanting. The stomach acid of bilious self-loathing ate at my insides as my neurons fired a billion gun salute to my own incompetence. Eventually I stumbled on a title that lessened (somewhat) the urge vomit. It occurs to me that this process could become habit-forming.