I’m pretending I’m an art student today, hanging out in the very pretty but comfortable offices over at Steinhardt, doing work and drinking tea. When I imagine an alternate life at an imaginary university in Europe somewhere, my imaginary office looks a lot like the one I’m in right now — stacks of magazines, slide [...]
Category Archives: Narcissism
This, and That
03-Apr-09The Exhausted Horses Are Shot
12-Dec-08I really have been out of the soc blogosphere loop — I had no idea The Soc Shrine was back! I was very sad to see them go. I really enjoy those little nuggets over there, and I never had the issues with them some bloggers seem to have. But I also have no problem [...]
new york sucks + pretentious
That Dream Within a Dream
30-Apr-08Apparently the fact that wealthy white gay people want to be just like other wealthy white people is news again. The Sunday Times magazine had a story on how young gay boys are nuts for nuptials, profiling a handful of white Boston gays in their 20s who have gotten legally wed. The interview subjects discuss [...]
If a Blog Falls in a Forest…
28-Apr-08Aim high indeed! Linked to by The Soc Shrine! But I wonder what this means for the Life Course of this blog. How does exposure on the internets correlate to aspirations, plans, and attainments? Over at cruciferous, Dean has posted and commented on a talk that addresses the “cognitive surplus” of blogging, suggesting that attention [...]