Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Dawn
I did not experience much of tomorrow last year
Also, I’m a WordPress idiot
I keep somehow accidentally turning off comments (the “user must be registered and logged in to comment” box keeps getting checked). Maybe this is a default reset every time I update WordPress? Anyway, comments are back on and I’ll try and keep them on.
Montrealia?
Okay, it’s not in French and it’s not Quebec-specific. And yet, scenes from the new show Portlandia do remind me of Montreal. –You can go to clown school. Check. –Where young people go to retire. Check. –Obsession with where food came from. Check. –High hipster quotient. Check. We spent just over 24 hours in Portland …
A little cancer reading for you
S. Lochlann Jain, “Be Prepared,” in Jonathan Metzl and Anna Kirkland (eds.), Against Health, NYU Press, 2010. See also some of the other offerings on her page.
Shhh!
It turns out that sabbatical is not all that conducive to blogging. I’d left Montreal assuming I’d get so much done with all this time on my hands, and I’d be recounting all sorts of exciting things that have been happening in California, finishing the book in no time flat, undertaking several music projects and …