(Charlie Bertsch and) I give you Bad Subjects #74: Intermedia, which features contributions from a few familiar faces and some new ones. It’s also got some of my favorite features of Bad Subjects issues in years past — “open” contributions, interviews, and of course, an article on the Christian right. — Fred’s visit was outstanding. …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
New Book Chapter + More
And now for an academic entry. Another one-off piece has appeared: “Transportation and Communication: Together as You’ve Always Wanted Them,” in Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History, eds. Jeremy Packer and Craig Robertson, 117-35. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. I haven’t done a run-through for typos but I will say that the …
Ever Play Zork?
Yes, I was a geeky teenager with friends who had Commodore 64s. There’s a great spoof of Bush playing Zork here. If I had the time, I’d do a Paul Martin version. >HOLD HEARINGS
One Other Thing
Yesterday was “national answer your cat’s question day.” I hope you did. If not, it’s never too late.
All that needs to be said
is that if I knew how to change the colors of the blog to Black and Gold right now, I would.
A Few Days Late
but for the record, my honeymoon with the Globe&Mail has officially ended. I cite the following unforgiveable infractions: –attributing the Boxing Day shootings in Toronto to a problem with “fatherless” families for dark-skinned immigrants. That kind of thinking should sound familiar to Americans (Moynihan report, anyone?) but it is lame and ignores the specific social …
Dis-gust-ing
I don’t normally blog about the weather but this morning’s commute took over 75 minutes. Oh, how I long for -20. It’s the north. It’s supposed to be cold. It’s not supposed to rain on top of the ice.