http://www.angryalien.com/0704/alienbunnies.html WARNING: graphic cartoon violence awaits you, but no more graphic than anything that happened in the movie Alien. Accomplishments of the weekend: –Two consecutive nights of socializing (note: social life less of an issue since end of semester, Thursday was deliberately taken off) –Discovery of Lombardi Italian Restaurant –Made Baby’s First Powerpoint Movie — …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Media Blog
Medium 1: Television: The Indecency of Indecency Complaints This news has been out for about a week but I somehow missed it, until today. It turns out over 99% of that famed “surge in indecency complaints” to the FCC are the work of a single activist group. The original report was in MediaWeek, though it’s …
More on Drugs and Athletes
So I’ve been following the whole Barry Bonds steroid thing. I like Bonds because he is an amazing player and because he’s not as likeable as the other major sluggers of our time. Bonds is unafraid to make an issue of race where it is an issue, where other players will simply pretend like it …
Shout out to new faculty in History!
Brian Cowan at tonight’s (very nice) dean’s reception: “you realize that all the new faculty at McGill read your blog.” Highly doubtful. And if they do, I hope they don’t develop a gambling habit.
Snow Removal
here is an absolute spectacle. One large plow and two small ones come to clear the road and sidewalk, and then this giant vaccuum thing comes and sucks up the snow. It’s wild. Before it all starts a siren sounds and people move their cars, or they get towed around the corner. . . .
“You Need a Headset”
Like everyone else I get songs in my head and can’t get them out. But they sound different these days. I am not making this up. A couple weeks ago, the music in my head started to sound different — more detailed, with a wider stereo “soundstage” (that’s such a silly sounding term). I thought …
Quiet Time
on the blog, but not in my life. I have been silent here while working away on a number of tasks. This week has featured a goodly number of meetings (all day M, about half of T), syllabus prep, housecleaning, and a potluck for my (and Carrie’s) grad students. The meetings were productive, as meetings …