June 2013
“In a way, Michael was born too late: He wrote with the sort of commitment of the generation of reporters shaped by the government’s lies about Vietnam, not by the triumphalism of the 1990s or the reflexive patriotism of the years after 9/11. He was surer than most of us that power is, presumptively, not to be trusted. Writers of his courage and talent are so rare, and he was taken way too soon. There are few like him. We will miss him terribly.”
—Ben Smith on Michael Hastings
Sorry if I’m posting too much stuff about Michael Hastings. He was someone I really admired and his death really surprised me and hit me.
Michael Hastings Dies In Car Crash At Age 33 →
huffingtonpost.com
Journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash in Los Angeles early Tuesday at the age of 33, according to a statement from his employer, BuzzFeed. Hastings, who was also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was perhaps best known for his candid Rolling Stone interview with General Stanley McChrystal, then the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, that eventually led to McChrystal being relieved of his command.
Jesus Christ, Michael Hastings died.
Just saw a news report where the tagline was “Granny’s Got a Gun.”
For some reason, I can’t stop laughing at that.
We’re all aware that XboxSupport1 thing that is being reblogged is fake right?
That’s not the official XboxSupport twitter.
None of this constitutes a defense of Xbox’s awful ideas though.
I never go into the sun and today I spent five hours in direct sunlight.
No sunscreen either.
Tomorrow is going to suck.
“We must be insistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life, how human geographies become filled with politics and ideology.”
—Edward Soja, ‘Postmodern Geographies’ (via aidsnegligee)
One of my requirements to graduate is to write a paper reflecting on what I’ve learned in my program.
Yeah, give me 10 pages to talk about myself. You people have no idea what you are in for.
One of my favorite things in graduate school was finding out one of my professors always let her class out early so they could all go home and watch Chopped.
thenoobyorker replied to your post: Just bought myself a Kindle Fire HD to celebrate…
is that today? happy birthday!
Yeah, I turned 26 today. Thanks!
Just bought myself a Kindle Fire HD to celebrate my birthday.
26 is way too old.
“Let’s face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re missing something.”
—
Judith Butler
Undoing Gender is amazing.
Has anyone read Spivak’s “More on Power/Knowledge”? (I may have the exact title wrong.)
If so, thoughts?
The insurance system in America is one of the most frustrating and dehumanizing things I’ve ever encountered.
I’m disappointed that this re-run of Futurama cut one of my favorite lines from the entire series.
I always find it funny that Rogers Brubaker is an amazing academic, but the only thing I’ve read by him I thought was something that basically relied upon his status and was actually poorly sourced and not well-thought out.
Basically, I need to read more of him to see why he’s so special.
