QTS-015 | Moon

Content: A very cool thing happened to me earlier this week. I had taken my two older kids out to eat at this hotdog place they both love. As we walked back to the car, I pointed out the almost full moon to the kids. Then we got in the

Patti Smith

I became very interested in Patti Smith and whatever she is up to when I picked up her book M Train (Amazon) when it first came out in 2016. When I encountered this book, I had met the woman who is now my wife a little before this, and I

Transference | Truth or Fiction?

1. The Question Is transference a truth or a fiction 2. What Lacan said When I was thinking about this question, I went to the Preface to the English edition of Seminar XI, one of Lacan's last texts. There, Lacan says, All I can do is tell the

[Re-Description] Bittersweet

Reading Anne Carson's Wikipedia page, Eros the Bittersweet – Carson's first book of criticism, published in 1986 – examines eros as a simultaneous experience of pleasure and pain best exemplified by "glukupikron", a word of Sappho's creation and the "bittersweet" of the

Anne Carson on why we should read classics today

Here is an excerpt From Anne Carson/Antiquity, a collection edited by Laura Jansen. This is Carson being quoted from an interview she gave, where she responds to the idea that teaching classics is relevant because it can teach us to recover something we need today. I don’t feel

Everyday choices

Everyday, there is so much stuff (books, podcasts, long-from articles and blog posts, films, audiobooks, comics, music, games, tv shows, etc.) I want to spend time absorbing. Every. Day. But time and my attention are not unlimited. Both are finite. So I’ve got to make choices about what gets

Monster

I found this sentence/information in Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Pecman. The word monster has its etymological roots in the Latin monstrare and French montrer: to show or make apparent. The association that came to me as I read this is that we all have a monster inside

QTS-014 | Books

Content:  I talk about  * The Weather  * Buying books and then reading them... or... as is more likely, not reading them.  * WWE Elimination Chamber * [S][J][P] - Surplus Jouissance Projects.  Referenced:  * WWE * Elimination Chamber 2024 * Peacock

An example of the intact its best: Manu’s blog

I read the post On Dreams and Goals on Manu’s blog this morning. That post is an example of the internet at its best. If you’re reading this please click the link and read what he wrote. It’s not long, and it is very very cool.

QTS-013 | Friends & Enemies

INTRO: It has been too long since I last made a QTS. Here is episode 013. REFERENCED:  * Cyberpunk genre * These dino eggs from Lakeshroe Learning * Joe Frank * Anne Carson's Grief Lessons: four Plays by Euripides (Amazon)