was the title of an essay I never wrote about Clear Channel’s banned songs list after 9/11/2001. That phrase appeared in a list of songs that were not to be played on Clear Channel stations. Rage was the only band to be completely banned. Though I imagine there wasn’t a lot of Jefferson Airplane or …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Bluetile Lounge–Half Cut
just came on over the headphones as I was writing that post. I listened before and it didn’t do a lot but it’s just perfect right now. Very mellow. Very 90s.
A Few Words on Apple and Fiction
Blogsurfing led me to a post by “HCI User Advocate” about his private hell in switching from Windows to Mac. Then today I learned that you can finally buy microphone attachments for 5th generation iPods. Time for an entry about Apple. When the battery died on my old 3rd generation model, I went ahead and …
Satisfaction
–A good seminar. I taught a formalist text, old school humanities style. Lots of student participation and good conversation. –Drink with students after class at Thomson House. I love Thomson House. It’s so much cooler than the faculty club. –Burrito Nite ][. We tend to make a big batch of something on Sunday so it …
There is no good way
to return to the inanity that usually characterizes this blog except to just do it, sooooo…. Vikings, Brad Childress. 2-0. Who woulda thunk it? That should take the pressure off for the next post.
My Soundbite
I’ve already had two calls from reporters today asking about the impact of cellphones, blogging, wikis, etc. on the shooting and the events surrounding it. After supplying the real answer, which elicits a “yeah but” from the reporter, I supply what I imagine are the usual answers for someone in my position, with whatever critical …
More Thoughts on Violence
This is just an addendum. When I said “Americans,” I should have said “white Americans” and middle class white Americans to boot. I think it was Jerry G. Watts who, in an edited collection on the riots following the Rodney King verdict, wrote about the considerably more precarious experience of being poor and black in …