Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne

Cute me to death.

I’m sure like 1 million people have already linked to this, but it’s cool: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/20SeanCarman.html

The bummer about catch-up posts is that they’re never as richly detailed as if I posted them as they were happening. I Feel Like An Asshole So I had a hotel booked in Hyde Park, the Ramada Inn. Two independent sources told me stories of squalid conditions there, which made me a bit nervous. I’m …

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and I just heard something ominous about my hotel, but I’m hoping it was a fluke. As usual, no guarantees of continuity until I return next week. But you never know.

Right now, Carrie is watching curling.

It’s a big topic in among US academics, with Horowitz’s “Discover the Network,” the attacks on Ward Churchill, and some smaller skirmishes as well. And yet I’ve been saying all along that humanities intellectuals are not on the cutting edge of the attack but rather a secondary front. Today’s Globe and Mail has an article …

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is the phrase I’ve heard applied to Frank Rich. Having just returned home from Sin City I’d have to say that it’s fitting. Definitely one of the most creatively misogynist movies I have ever seen.