Waste

2025

On the materiality of Rebecca Ward's works May 6, 2025

2024

Things Organized Neatly Nov 10, 2024 I could have sworn I posted this in 2019 Apr 26, 2024 On Agnes Callard's Aspiration Apr 23, 2024

2023

On Lydia Tár's EGOT Apr 10, 2023

2022

Gefahr im Ziel Jun 25, 2022 I doff my assless chaps one leg at a time just like the next intermillennial yobbo May 30, 2022

2021

Two or three confusions about five or six pages of Bernard Williams Jun 2, 2021

2020

Their words, for you Dec 31, 2020 My pettiest post ever Oct 17, 2020 Are we Aristotle's enemies? Jul 22, 2020

2019

Wingtip Dot Club Aug 3, 2019

2018

Ford contra O'Shaugnessy Sep 16, 2018

2017

The fire in me now Nov 5, 2017 The credulity of the recappers, or, what does Rick & Morty have in common with "Who Was Nietzsche's Genealogist?" May 29, 2017

2016

Bad faith, briefly expounded Oct 1, 2016 Verse roundup!!!! May 15, 2016 Sculptural realism, or, Michelangelo on knowing one's mind Apr 16, 2016

2015

Prepare the receptacle Oct 17, 2015 Cavell, not Carell Aug 1, 2015 Transformative Experience: Nonidentity Problem Jul 12, 2015 Robert Louis Stevenson modernism shocker Apr 26, 2015 Art and Desire Apr 19, 2015 More on "Knowing What One Wants" Apr 19, 2015 A few more double dactyls Apr 16, 2015 Innocence & experience Mar 28, 2015 Evolutionary explanation, mimics, and the doctrine of double effect Feb 16, 2015 Judo flip! Feb 1, 2015

2014

Phonological tricks Dec 2, 2014 A question about Frankfurt-style cases regarding so-called free will Oct 12, 2014 Literary expose of the century! Oct 5, 2014 On a popular misconception concerning "literally" Jul 20, 2014 That's right, it's more double dactyls Jun 25, 2014 Cauliflower sans Merci Feb 9, 2014

2013

More than one frustration regarding "Honest Illusion" Dec 1, 2013 Further versification Nov 16, 2013 An expression of a single frustration regarding one aspect of Pippin's treatment of action Oct 15, 2013 The dactylic guide to poets & philosophers Sep 29, 2013 Is a colander solid? Aug 10, 2013 A further variation Jul 29, 2013 On going the bloody hard way in eating ice-cream cones May 16, 2013 And this is the pen I use to write the recipes for my most delicious meals. I like to call it my May 8, 2013 Variations on a theme by Kenneth Koch Apr 20, 2013 The SEP entry on "Philosophy of Computer Science" is strange and wonderful Apr 15, 2013 Post Scriptum Jan 27, 2013 The extended stomach Jan 27, 2013 Remainder is a book about Beisichsein Jan 20, 2013 Why tolerate Mark Johnston's religion? Jan 11, 2013

2012

Failure to abstract Dec 9, 2012 Alexandrines Dec 2, 2012 Wunderbar Nov 3, 2012 What is the formula on which the series [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 …] is based? Sep 29, 2012 What does it matter who's talking? Aug 25, 2012 ok! Jul 31, 2012 Sometimes I have a similar reaction to the claim that "we" can conceive of something-or-other. What do you mean, "we"? May 27, 2012 What thing is needful? May 21, 2012 What's eating Elizabeth Costello? May 9, 2012 Archaic Forest of Bristlecone Pines May 7, 2012 I do not want to moralize Apr 19, 2012 Is Infinite Jest experimental? Mar 28, 2012

2011

A technique that was old before it became avant-garde Nov 4, 2011 Richer psychological vocabulary desired Aug 22, 2011 Enthusiasm for reflexivity Aug 12, 2011 Brief comments on beginning Jul 15, 2011 More of the same Jun 10, 2011 About those barn facades Jun 4, 2011 Overqualified May 27, 2011 More Millgram blogging! May 7, 2011 This is too important to be given an elaborate setup May 5, 2011 An attempt to exorcise an idle thought May 4, 2011 This would never happen to me, though Apr 29, 2011 What's so terrifying 'bout peace, love and the whirl of organism? Apr 23, 2011 Assuredly a life is not a philosophy Apr 13, 2011 Hamburgers, indeed Mar 24, 2011 Bringing up the rear Mar 15, 2011 Nothing is good enough for people like you Feb 28, 2011 The elder days of art Feb 3, 2011 The boring and the bored Jan 28, 2011 An allegory Jan 18, 2011 Irk Jan 18, 2011

2010

Modernism as a personal problem Dec 23, 2010 Oh, also Dec 23, 2010 A complaint concerning Lichtenberg Oct 25, 2010 John Ashbery's "To a Waterfowl" Sep 1, 2010 Romantic sincerity Aug 29, 2010 Exemplary sentences from the OED Aug 25, 2010 A sort of meta Aug 19, 2010 Losing face Aug 5, 2010 Oh, to be glib again Jul 28, 2010 St. Augustine's first sexual experience Jul 23, 2010 A fun game! Jul 12, 2010 In this post I examine my own philistinism Jul 8, 2010 Controversy in the world of letters Jul 2, 2010 Causality attempts to create free agency Jun 12, 2010 When I heard the learn'd juggalo Jun 10, 2010 Make that extremely tricky nothingness Jun 1, 2010 Oh, those rascally talented rich! May 25, 2010 Die systematischen Klauen des Herrn H. May 4, 2010 Alive why? Apr 26, 2010 Sandra Lee and the culinary avant-garde: a manifesto Apr 25, 2010 How to generate a list of all the pairs of natural numbers Apr 8, 2010 Why I am so clever Apr 6, 2010 Vapid jews query tax of big schnoz milk Mar 31, 2010 Chekhov's dumb Mar 29, 2010 A completely nonsensical story with a wholly unrelated and pointless punch line is told ... when those in-the-know laugh, the suckers wonder what's wrong with their sense of humor Mar 17, 2010 Divining intentions Mar 14, 2010 Nature of my reply: Civil, perfunctory, uninformative Mar 9, 2010 Permutational analysis Feb 25, 2010 Thought experiment Feb 3, 2010 Indeterminacy Jan 23, 2010 Everything new was old before Jan 19, 2010 climbing eyesight Jan 13, 2010 The green and Jan 13, 2010 Crawled near Jan 11, 2010 My mind's Jan 11, 2010 of a cat Jan 11, 2010 Poor birds Jan 6, 2010

2009

This isn't the first time I've put something completely childish up here Dec 30, 2009 Sensitive artist type Ethan Iverson can dish out, can't take Dec 18, 2009 Faible-timbre-teint-partitur Nov 28, 2009 snive: to blow one's nose Nov 22, 2009 Pop quiz! Oct 31, 2009 The shallow shimmer-shine of tinted hair Oct 26, 2009 Titles of actual philosophical works which could plausibly also be titles of albums of popular music with salacious intent Oct 24, 2009 A pressing question Oct 12, 2009 Thereby completing the analogy Sep 8, 2009 I am not a synaesthete Sep 4, 2009 I am my body Sep 3, 2009 Not exactly snappy Aug 18, 2009 In which a promise is discharged Aug 16, 2009 Fusion cuisine Aug 13, 2009 The peano has been drinking, not me Jul 28, 2009 Thereby completing tragedy Jul 25, 2009 The excellence of this play on words escapes most commentators Jul 22, 2009 Bad barber Jul 14, 2009 Operation: Infinite Jestice Jun 27, 2009 A little-known story about a popular modernist painter Jun 22, 2009 Epigraph Jun 19, 2009 Bear baiting Jun 11, 2009 Youtube Wittgenstein commentary Jun 6, 2009 Though not quite as good as the confluence of the "rue"s May 16, 2009 "systematic claws" May 12, 2009 et in NPR ego Apr 16, 2009 Holy crap Apr 15, 2009 Words I have forgotten and the phrases I have substituted for them Apr 15, 2009 A new one Apr 9, 2009 The invention of predecessors Apr 6, 2009 The saddest thing Mar 23, 2009 Take this hammer Mar 20, 2009 Objective similarity Mar 14, 2009 This should have a title, I guess Mar 9, 2009 Organizational anxiety Mar 9, 2009 Et beatitudinem et otium temporaque in sole anni habuimus astra autem quae tangere potuimus modo pisces cum astri forma in litore erant Mar 8, 2009 Given the slip Feb 25, 2009 A solution to all your social networking anxieties Feb 24, 2009 Three things Feb 19, 2009 And yet I don't have finger(1) Feb 15, 2009 White Feb 7, 2009 So as not to forget, pt 2 Feb 6, 2009 Wooden bouzouki Feb 5, 2009 Then again, they do not wear "pants" Jan 28, 2009 If you can't make your mind up, we'll never get started Jan 27, 2009 Such are the insubstantial pin-point subtleties which philosophy occasionally lingers over Jan 26, 2009 Selling drugs to kids / I hide behind the oak trees / Disappointed mother Jan 26, 2009 istic. Jan 22, 2009 Moderately cute Jan 18, 2009 Concerning a lamentable tendency lately arisen in fruit stands Jan 17, 2009 I. tacet Jan 15, 2009 Obscure commentary? Jan 15, 2009 The appointed cloud Jan 11, 2009 Epic hike Jan 9, 2009 Drudgery divine Jan 6, 2009 APA question Jan 4, 2009 Use English when the French for a thing is confusing Jan 2, 2009

2008

Something something Augustine something disenchantment Dec 30, 2008 Someone get P.D.Q. Bach on the line Dec 24, 2008 What can one not have have heard about the archaeologist who wore a party dress to the excavation site? Dec 22, 2008 Live/Evil Dec 8, 2008 An end to one form of jesuitry Dec 4, 2008 Narrowly averted Dec 4, 2008 Four Freedoms Plus Nov 30, 2008 Needs more legato Nov 28, 2008 What we should learn from artists Nov 20, 2008 Doubtless extremely significant Nov 12, 2008 Be a derivative composer! Nov 10, 2008 May as well Nov 9, 2008 The Larousse Gastronomique Awards for Scientific Tone Nov 8, 2008 A more complete conjugation for "beware" Nov 7, 2008 Algebraic data types FTW Nov 4, 2008 Ted Cohen wrote a book Nov 2, 2008 Judge me not by what is known now, but in the light of what I knew when these events transpired Nov 1, 2008 A philosophical census Oct 29, 2008 October is the cruellest month? Oct 26, 2008 Peeve Oct 26, 2008 You can't get it from here Oct 13, 2008 Atoning for cholesterol Oct 10, 2008 Not if I saw it with mayonnaise Oct 6, 2008 Three versions of charity Oct 1, 2008 Reduce, reüse, recycle Sep 29, 2008 Word order Sep 26, 2008 What does that mean—integrity?  A pocket fulla firecrackers—looking for a match! Sep 25, 2008 A tactfully suggested emendation Sep 24, 2008 Sour persimmons, indeed Sep 21, 2008 The mysteries of etymology—revealed! Sep 20, 2008 Herman Melville*, reasonable man Sep 15, 2008 Doniger agrees Sep 13, 2008 "Sooner rather than later" Sep 13, 2008 Soon I will be invincible Sep 11, 2008 Noted in passing Sep 4, 2008 Linguistic intuitions Sep 3, 2008 We bieð all siker of godes behate Aug 31, 2008 Are you going to keep alive the spirit of cricket Aug 23, 2008 If our minds were occupied, surely so many things would not enter them Aug 23, 2008 How should you throw it on other occasions Aug 22, 2008 When should you throw the ball at top speed Aug 21, 2008 How do you know where to throw the ball Aug 20, 2008 How should you pick up the ball and throw it Aug 19, 2008 What is the correct way to stop a ball Aug 17, 2008 What movement helps you when you are trying to run out a batsman Aug 17, 2008 Why should you watch the striker's bat Aug 17, 2008 How do you know that you have taken your eyes of the ball when you attempt to catch it Aug 16, 2008 How may your parents and your employer help you in your cricket career Aug 16, 2008 If you want to succeed at cricket what attitude should you adopt towards the game Aug 16, 2008 What do we get from cricket that we don't get from other games Aug 15, 2008 What do people mean when they say ‘he played cricket’ Aug 14, 2008 How will you learn more successfully from your coach than by just looking and listening Aug 10, 2008 Why are some cricket coaches better than others Aug 9, 2008 What Do We Mean By Coaching Aug 7, 2008 The act of being about (now) to become (hereafter) a constant kicker Aug 4, 2008 "meaningless" is not the generalissimum under which fall "distracting", "insipid", and "anodyne" Jul 25, 2008 Why should I care about Charlie Wilmoth's music? Jul 24, 2008 An unjustly neglected philosopher Jul 21, 2008 Finis reipublicae Jul 21, 2008 Pâte de cerises Jul 20, 2008 The modern condition, sans cat Jul 20, 2008 Euphemisms Jul 19, 2008 How we stack up against late-18th-century Germans Jul 18, 2008 I have a favorite passage from The Recognitions Jul 18, 2008 I should have asked a professional from the get-go Jul 9, 2008 From the annals of overenthusiastic label blurbs Jul 6, 2008 No one respects the forbiddenness of the old bestandings anymore Jul 6, 2008 A patriotic gesture Jul 4, 2008 Stars fell on Alabama Jul 3, 2008 What I did on my summer vacation Jul 1, 2008 Hey man nice shot Jun 24, 2008 Things said to me recently Jun 24, 2008 A plea for excuses Jun 23, 2008 I seem to have lost my knife Jun 22, 2008 The meaning of a word Jun 21, 2008 How to talk: some simple ways Jun 20, 2008 …because he felt that if he did it in any other order, it wouldn't be as effective Jun 19, 2008 Censer? No, he smells terrible. Jun 19, 2008 Southwestern ranch-style house Jun 16, 2008 Power's units are those of volume; it hums, and need not be cooked Jun 15, 2008 The warm summer air isn't so much sweet and delicious as hot and oppressive Jun 15, 2008 Power is measured volumetrically; it hums, and need not be cooked Jun 14, 2008 It turns out that the drumming in "Creep" is actually kind of unsubtle and even obtrusive Jun 12, 2008 Three down Jun 11, 2008 Moss agate, and now human skin Jun 10, 2008 Free Jstor? Jun 9, 2008 Noted without much comment Jun 6, 2008 "That's it! I'm going to clown college!" May 21, 2008 Pass the lvalue on the left-hand side May 20, 2008 Applying one's knowledge May 17, 2008 This ain't no Leibniz shit May 15, 2008 Shore Leave May 10, 2008 Maybe Stanford has something to say for itself after all May 9, 2008 Life is wasted on the living May 4, 2008 Going for the limit May 1, 2008 The truth in push-polling Apr 29, 2008 Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Apr 24, 2008 Well I got this bassoon, and I learned how to make it talk Apr 22, 2008 What I see, when I think of Stanley Cavell Apr 21, 2008 The signal's coming from Pittsburgh Apr 18, 2008 Chicagoans are lucky skunks Apr 17, 2008 More deceptive prudery Apr 15, 2008 Unhalfbricking Apr 15, 2008 One's prior education turns out to effect what one currently thinks Apr 14, 2008 Two cultivars of human ugliness Apr 14, 2008 The drive to 2010 Apr 12, 2008 Proposal Apr 9, 2008 “You can't have everything; where would you put it?” Apr 6, 2008 Frustration Apr 5, 2008 Further dispatches from the world of chocolate and bacon Mar 31, 2008 Songs for Ché Mar 30, 2008 Three ways of spilling ink Mar 30, 2008 Ain't it always the way Mar 24, 2008 Some day my station will be changed Mar 23, 2008 Slightly foxy; very fine Mar 22, 2008 Lovelyville, next door to Terribletown Mar 12, 2008 An actual exchange Mar 11, 2008 An idle thought Mar 10, 2008 What was post-rock (not from the point of view of Hegel)? Mar 3, 2008 Practical reason is demanding Mar 2, 2008 Prudery can be deceptive Mar 1, 2008 The moon is a sky thing Feb 25, 2008 The pelting of soritical hail Feb 23, 2008 Linguistic cynicism Feb 20, 2008 More news from Greece Feb 18, 2008 Happy Valentine's Day! Feb 14, 2008 A paradox of taste Feb 11, 2008 The rest of the story Feb 10, 2008 Super Markson Day! Feb 5, 2008 On self-effacement and the second person Jan 29, 2008 On free improvisation Jan 25, 2008 A nut for some seasons Jan 23, 2008 Nihilist seeks nothing Jan 23, 2008 Hmm Jan 21, 2008 Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the fluids herself Jan 21, 2008 In which one procrastinates Jan 20, 2008 Barnett Newman rocks my world Jan 19, 2008 The unexpected copulation of ideas Jan 14, 2008 Zotter steps up Jan 13, 2008 xmmsalike2 Jan 12, 2008 Aptly named Jan 11, 2008 The wanton is an agential Oakland: there's no there there Jan 9, 2008 …and the things one wants to do Jan 8, 2008 The things one does Jan 3, 2008 Pinkhead Smartweed Jan 1, 2008 Shelley Shelley Percy Jan 1, 2008

2007

Callback from the nyrb Dec 23, 2007 How I got this way Dec 22, 2007 Jonah Goldberg in villanelle form Dec 18, 2007 Intriguing supposition Dec 13, 2007 Maître du boulevard: a compound of butter, garlic, and persiflage Dec 11, 2007 A difficult endeavor Dec 10, 2007 Korsgaard & Uexküll on animals Dec 8, 2007 Staggering Dec 8, 2007 Conference of the dogs Dec 6, 2007 More mysteries Dec 3, 2007 Doing my part to support the Dalkey Archive Dec 2, 2007 Aw, don't play with me, Israel Dec 2, 2007 The first novel Dec 2, 2007 Alarm Will Sound Dec 1, 2007 More patterns Dec 1, 2007 Possibly the most mysterious decision ever Nov 26, 2007 The fourth ‘law’ Nov 25, 2007 Arch-nemesis update Nov 24, 2007 On the incompleteness of the Library of Babel Nov 23, 2007 Two quotations from I'm Not Stiller Nov 21, 2007 Gut huts with gusto Nov 20, 2007 Glaublicher Lärm Nov 18, 2007 The reason for the season Nov 13, 2007 The sinister, the righteous, the fey Nov 10, 2007 The morals of a dancing-master and the manners of a whore Nov 8, 2007 God shed his grace on thee Nov 4, 2007 Hegel is hard Nov 4, 2007 Matters versificational Nov 3, 2007 This is stupid stuff Oct 31, 2007 Der in erweiternden Kreisen umdrehende und umdrehende Falke kann den Falkner nicht hören Oct 28, 2007 Call me Hermoso Hermoso Oct 26, 2007 Argle bargle Oct 25, 2007 Conceptual analysis Oct 23, 2007 Ein Fleisch! Ein Blut! Oct 22, 2007 Bellum a non bello Oct 17, 2007 scp/peaceful Oct 16, 2007 From those who dine at the same restaurant, different and different again excretions flow Oct 14, 2007 Verschiedene Annäherungen Oct 12, 2007 Notice Oct 9, 2007 Do what thou wilted greens shall be the only slaw Oct 8, 2007 I don't dig on crystal palaces, man Oct 6, 2007 I would exchange my nuts for a piece of metal Oct 3, 2007 A metaphysics of David Torn Oct 2, 2007 What means that, traveller? Oct 2, 2007 And yet not even your mom sees the open Sep 30, 2007 An asymmetry in the use of means Sep 28, 2007 Antigua, penny, puce Sep 26, 2007 Then again, they do not wear any pants. Sep 25, 2007 So as not to forget Sep 24, 2007 In form as palpable as that which now I pass through my urethra Sep 22, 2007 Great moments in record reviewing Sep 18, 2007 Dawn, just as it came to Australian skies, a woman of bad character in a cloak of red possum skins Sep 11, 2007 Notice Sep 11, 2007 The names of my daughters, should I have any Sep 10, 2007 Such of his linguistic peers as happen to be present nod approvingly Sep 7, 2007 Ne swik þu nauer nu Sep 5, 2007 Timely truths Sep 3, 2007 Chance meeting of 90s rock and the LA foothills Sep 2, 2007 Loot Aug 31, 2007 Editors: still not writers Aug 30, 2007 Cool an’ glue an’ yummies Aug 29, 2007 Amour propre as volitional necessity Aug 25, 2007 In which I allow myself to overwrite Aug 25, 2007 For the soul Aug 24, 2007 Total Nöosphere on Wild Bass Aug 23, 2007 The myth of Sisyphus Aug 22, 2007 Disappointing truth Aug 21, 2007 On drummers and being strait-laced Aug 20, 2007 A rhythmic possibility Aug 16, 2007 Yes, and Aug 15, 2007 Squid update Aug 14, 2007 Appomattox Aug 11, 2007 An argument I don't understand Aug 9, 2007 The unknown masterpiece Aug 9, 2007 On Rorty Aug 7, 2007 A brief list Aug 3, 2007 Overheard on Caltrain Aug 2, 2007 Tennis players Jul 30, 2007 The ellipsis is a form of punctuation Jul 27, 2007 A ticket cost a nickel and the speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party was in 1935 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Jul 26, 2007 Bent at the waist Jul 20, 2007 Thinking is a physical act Jul 19, 2007 You will find me if you want me in the garden Jul 19, 2007 Andalucia, when can I see ya? Jul 18, 2007 The translator to the white courtesy phone, please Jul 16, 2007 Bork bork bork Jul 14, 2007 At last once again, content for an old title Jul 13, 2007 Maneuvers such as the Horizontal Fold, the Topiary Cut, the Unfurling Poster, and so forth Jul 12, 2007 A worn-out tweed jacket Jul 11, 2007 I'm convinced Jul 8, 2007 Band name! Jul 6, 2007 Death Praxis Jul 6, 2007 Hooray for me! Jul 5, 2007 Ob ich nur immer den Mond ansehe Jul 4, 2007 Thursday translation attempt: lang und hager Jul 1, 2007 Weasel Walter is capable of being a remarkably sensitive percussionist; I saw it with my own eyes Jul 1, 2007 John Leonard Jun 30, 2007 John Leonard Jun 30, 2007 John Leonard Jun 30, 2007 John Leonard Jun 28, 2007 John Leonard Jun 25, 2007 John Leonard Jun 24, 2007 John Leonard Jun 24, 2007 John Leonard Jun 20, 2007 John Leonard Jun 20, 2007 John Leonard Jun 20, 2007 Lexicon Jun 16, 2007 It must have been a lot of work to create every atom in the universe Jun 15, 2007 I am writing this in an apple store. Jun 13, 2007 Music of airports Jun 12, 2007 Time travel is unchristian Jun 12, 2007 après-miditif Jun 10, 2007 No one goes there anymore; it's too crowded Jun 6, 2007 A clarification Jun 5, 2007 It's rabbit holes all the way down Jun 4, 2007 The difference between plangent and universal Jun 4, 2007 Sophistication May 31, 2007 An anecdote about authenticity May 29, 2007 Shun company May 27, 2007 Concerns surrounding ISBNs May 22, 2007 Euphemistic May 21, 2007 Neurath, bitch! May 21, 2007 I hereby revise upward my opinion of Norah Jones May 19, 2007 Band name! May 17, 2007 Dept. of bizarre quotations May 14, 2007 "Jokes" May 14, 2007 Mischief May 10, 2007 Realization May 9, 2007 On the brink of something momentous May 5, 2007 A sketch of an argument to the conclusion that agglomerated intentions needn't be jointly realizable May 4, 2007 SUPAR FUNNY JOAK! May 1, 2007 Porridge Apr 27, 2007 Notes on a Decemberists concert Apr 26, 2007 A solution finder for Language, Proof and Logic problems Apr 22, 2007 Bait Apr 21, 2007 Trout that swim Apr 19, 2007 Two happy ones Apr 19, 2007 Now, I admit that I am incapable of producing a decent translation of a whole work Apr 17, 2007 'Tis a blessing to be simple Apr 11, 2007 Slend Apr 9, 2007 White Dream (To K. Miwa In Hagi) Apr 8, 2007 Joke workshop Mar 30, 2007 Elsewhere in the USA Mar 27, 2007 [untitled] Mar 26, 2007 Bone-house, memory-house Mar 25, 2007 Homely thoughts from a broad Mar 25, 2007 Miak Mar 25, 2007 Murgatroyd would never have allowed this Mar 24, 2007 A wholly accurate paraphrase of the section of Clive James' Cultural Amnesia on Thomas Browne Mar 23, 2007 Disconcerting realization Mar 23, 2007 That is called two—pointing to deez nutz Mar 16, 2007 Lush for life Mar 13, 2007 Perceptual betrothal Mar 13, 2007 Where is done thinking Mar 13, 2007 My contribution to scholarship Mar 10, 2007 Three great tastes—but how do they taste together? Mar 4, 2007 More carping about translations Feb 24, 2007 Remonstrance Feb 24, 2007 Not an accomplishment Feb 22, 2007 I am the phronimost Feb 21, 2007 I have awesome friends Feb 18, 2007 Happy Valentine's Day! Feb 14, 2007 Aristotle solves Zeno's paradox Feb 13, 2007 This seems to be true of sex as as well as of reading philosophy Feb 11, 2007 Eggs three ways, $11 Feb 9, 2007 Fourteen ways of spelling "Ourang-Outan" Feb 9, 2007 Apocrypha Feb 7, 2007 Liberalizing Erdős-Bacon Numbers Feb 5, 2007 Beware of this and that Feb 4, 2007 What sounds like a farting goose and isn't Leo Kottke? Jan 30, 2007 Nooks do burnish a gloom Jan 28, 2007 Poet aureate Jan 25, 2007 Pallas in the the spring Jan 23, 2007 Pie is the new cupcake Jan 23, 2007 In the end a dog walks about as startling and undecipherable as Leviathan or Croquemitaine Jan 19, 2007 Glory be to transforming things Jan 17, 2007 Wicky pocky Jan 17, 2007 I recycle an old email Jan 16, 2007 Istunpa Sankys Laitalla Jan 15, 2007 That high lonesome sound Jan 12, 2007 The problem with the New Yorker caption contests Jan 11, 2007 I am in fifth grade Jan 10, 2007 title! Jan 10, 2007 I'm so naïve Jan 9, 2007 HAAALIFAX Jan 5, 2007 Not invented here Jan 5, 2007 One for my public Jan 4, 2007 Throwing in the towel? Jan 4, 2007 Grass is greener Jan 2, 2007 Is the situation so uncommon, then, in which philosophy itself forbids one to philosophize? Jan 2, 2007 bhop shift Jan 1, 2007 Two can be a trend if we try Jan 1, 2007

2006

Sándor Márai Dec 27, 2006 Scissors Dec 26, 2006 These things coming into my memory as I am writing this, it would be unnatural for me to omit them Dec 18, 2006 Idea from antproof case Dec 17, 2006 What I have learned from Cigarettes Dec 16, 2006 Advice for the shopworn Dec 15, 2006 Mise en pwnage Dec 15, 2006 This is even less well-thought-through than usual Dec 13, 2006 And so the chorus points to a secret joke Dec 9, 2006 If walking on two legs is not natural to man it is certainly an invention that does him credit Dec 5, 2006 This gin-drinking anagrammatist Dec 4, 2006 Our false philosophy is incorporated in our language; we can, so to speak, not reason without reasoning falsely Dec 3, 2006 An auction at which people bid with things other than money, e.g., books. Dec 1, 2006 To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight Nov 26, 2006 Was ist es denn mit den Gehirnen? Warum schmecken sie so gut? Nov 23, 2006 Friendly old hippies: yea or nay? Nov 22, 2006 The body-body problem Nov 19, 2006 A paradoxical realization Nov 14, 2006 Since this life is no more than an evanescent point of time, I find it incomprehensible that the state of unending bliss and glory does not begin at once. Nov 10, 2006 Thursday meta-hatred Nov 9, 2006 Friedrich Schlegel on why Joanna Newsom sucks Nov 8, 2006 Therefore he ought to have more than one stomach Nov 7, 2006 Materials science Nov 5, 2006 Wem soll ich mein neues gerade mit einem Bimssteinchen aufgeglättetes Büchlein schenken?* Nov 5, 2006 Red sky at night, enjoy the sunset Oct 30, 2006 Nature gives the rule Oct 29, 2006 Is that a beetle in your box, or are you just happy to see me? Oct 21, 2006 Who is the last man? Oct 20, 2006 Worst development in history? Oct 20, 2006 Baldness is an inertial state Oct 19, 2006 On Connoisseurship Oct 18, 2006 Ox-tongue arrack Oct 15, 2006 Did you know? Oct 14, 2006 Wand-escape ether evil draws Oct 8, 2006 Arundhati Roy Oct 5, 2006 "I have outwalked the furthest city light" Oct 4, 2006 I've wasted about four hours already Oct 3, 2006 Ain't gonna drag my feet no more Sep 30, 2006 The heeding that siezes upon Sep 30, 2006 Stop player, joke #4 Sep 27, 2006 Product idea Sep 24, 2006 O banner day Sep 20, 2006 Hickory tree Sep 19, 2006 Probably not a very good book Sep 16, 2006 Clean, degraded, recovering Sep 15, 2006 Secret garden Sep 3, 2006 Misleading labeling Aug 26, 2006 Horticulture Aug 25, 2006 How to avoid thinking about important things for a long duration Aug 20, 2006 I have always relied on the candy of strangers Aug 7, 2006 A few Goodman Jul 29, 2006 The dump hath a wallet at its back Jul 23, 2006 A concert Jul 22, 2006 "Man Eating Banana" a tired retread of "Man Turning Somersault" Jul 22, 2006 An arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife Jul 15, 2006 At last content for an old title Jul 7, 2006 Things I learned recently Jul 4, 2006 Geist! Jul 1, 2006 Why aren't all bikes girl bikes Jun 26, 2006 Notes towards a ridiculous summer reading list Jun 20, 2006 Fancy indeed Jun 19, 2006 A question concerning quotation Jun 11, 2006 Now that's customer service Jun 11, 2006 Paper title! Jun 6, 2006 More Scott Walker Jun 4, 2006 Mystery alcohol! May 30, 2006 The unquiet grave May 28, 2006 I am a terrible student May 24, 2006 This night wounds time May 24, 2006 Ooo waooo, waooo, waooo. May 18, 2006 Cursed camera May 10, 2006 The country where I want to be May 9, 2006 Hip neurotic Malian pro-lifery May 6, 2006 I fix jokes Apr 29, 2006 Δε φοβάμαι τίποτα Apr 27, 2006 Naïve description of the formation of a sentiment Apr 24, 2006 Geekout! Apr 21, 2006 Seriously, people Apr 21, 2006 "Klopstock!" Apr 16, 2006 I am a parrot (red) Apr 15, 2006 A complicated musical request Apr 8, 2006 The persistence of Calvin & Hobbes Apr 5, 2006 Out of town! My work takes me out of town! Mar 25, 2006 Mirrors & copulation Mar 23, 2006 A pretty face / who knows what a face is for Mar 22, 2006 OMG Mar 20, 2006 ctypes rules Mar 13, 2006 I have a thorough understanding of biology and the workings of the human body. Mar 6, 2006 Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. Mar 6, 2006 Selbstportrait mit Katzen Mar 6, 2006 It's an honor to be justly nominated Mar 2, 2006 Lonely women Feb 25, 2006 Grapefruit, salt, dark chocolate Feb 22, 2006 A method of ensuring further sight by means of capitistation Feb 19, 2006 And forget, for once and for a while, that other curious question "is it true?" May we? Feb 15, 2006 Stalagmite Feb 14, 2006 then worms shall try that long preserved virginity Feb 6, 2006 Radical typography Feb 5, 2006 Very different from the one you are in now Feb 4, 2006 A change of scene Jan 30, 2006 Technical questions Jan 29, 2006 A pure heart is an excellent thing, and so is a clean shirt Jan 28, 2006 Kant, the comedian Jan 28, 2006 Friday Afternoon Secret Keeping Jan 27, 2006 He stabbed her in the heart, and the heart blood did flow (x2) Jan 27, 2006 I made another pie Jan 23, 2006 Vielle à roué Jan 22, 2006 History Jan 21, 2006 In the spirit of the tutor Jan 19, 2006 A regular schedule Jan 16, 2006 Matte kudasai Jan 16, 2006 My new fallback plan Jan 15, 2006 An open letter to the Clarendon press, and the editors of this edition of "On the Aesthetic Education of Man" Jan 14, 2006 Nunc autem manet fides spes carnitas tria haec maior autem his est carnitas Jan 11, 2006 Superhero origin: the setup, or, potential literature Jan 9, 2006 This common idiom has an odd feature! Core dumped. Jan 9, 2006 Bitters end Jan 8, 2006 Not quite enisled Jan 4, 2006

2005

Book Dec 30, 2005 Dr. Johnson and the Social History of Sputum Dec 30, 2005 The OC Dec 28, 2005 I admit it Dec 27, 2005 blargh Dec 26, 2005 My gift to each and every person in the world Dec 25, 2005 Interrogatio illis qui Latine sciant Dec 23, 2005 Entrepreneurship Dec 21, 2005 I can certainly see how having no aspirations would tend to produce frustration Dec 20, 2005 Impressive results! Dec 20, 2005 Aquarius Records: bad for my wallet Dec 18, 2005 Sun-Treader Dec 18, 2005 Drums whisper spacy Dec 15, 2005 A rush and a push and the hatred is ours Dec 14, 2005 Million-dollar idea Dec 14, 2005 Bimbo punch Dec 11, 2005 The force that through the green fuse drives your mother Dec 10, 2005 One can't, but two can. Dec 8, 2005 Studied so much evil just to keep me honest Dec 8, 2005 C question Dec 5, 2005 I admit it Dec 5, 2005 Undone by the text Dec 5, 2005 Red shoes by the drugstore Dec 4, 2005 The simple pleasures in life Dec 4, 2005 I do all my best work in bed Dec 1, 2005 Really just amazingly stupid Dec 1, 2005 Pretending to think Nov 28, 2005 Phwoarg! Nov 26, 2005 tene bris tenebris Nov 25, 2005 How can I get Ted Rall's number? Nov 23, 2005 JHWH helps me trick people Nov 23, 2005 A picture of the noumenal self Nov 22, 2005 Perverted mind Nov 22, 2005 Confusing heritage Nov 21, 2005 Buyer's remorse Nov 20, 2005 I suppose it's a bit of a stretch… Nov 20, 2005 Things done since the beginning of a few days ago Nov 19, 2005 Paper titles Nov 16, 2005 Catullus 63 has never seemed more plausible Nov 15, 2005 This be close reading Nov 15, 2005 Hybrid vigor Nov 14, 2005 Why yes, I am an unreconstructed ass; how could you tell? Nov 14, 2005 Miraculous capture of yeggs Nov 13, 2005 Unexpected Nov 13, 2005 Green dude has green fairy Nov 6, 2005 A penny for the old guy Nov 4, 2005 Bigmouth strikes again Nov 2, 2005 Xenonomy Nov 2, 2005 Your source for cock jokes Oct 31, 2005 Because tonight is like any other night Oct 30, 2005 Bracchia virumque cano Oct 28, 2005 Two good alba Oct 28, 2005 Creatine Oct 27, 2005 Oops! I see a darkness again! Oct 26, 2005 Oulipogram Oct 23, 2005 A simple man, in a complex world Oct 20, 2005 Li Po Gram Oct 17, 2005 The Third Policeman Oct 17, 2005 Ad astra er as era Oct 16, 2005 Why last night was not a wizard cocksucker night Oct 14, 2005 Le noir extra amer Oct 12, 2005 Maybe it didn't happen exactly like this Oct 11, 2005 Uexküll Oct 11, 2005 Effects of analogy Oct 10, 2005 foo bar bletch Oct 8, 2005 My favorite puzzle Oct 5, 2005 In Christ there is no east or west Oct 3, 2005 Paragon of tarragon Oct 2, 2005 Pine cone temples Sep 28, 2005 What it is like to be mistaken Sep 28, 2005 You can say to me in English. Sep 28, 2005 Nepos ultra Sep 27, 2005 A tidy Mexican divorce Sep 23, 2005 Quadruple-bass saxophone Sep 22, 2005 Shambolic: falsely representative Sep 20, 2005 Cool! Sep 17, 2005 Perverted modem Sep 17, 2005 I ain't got no heart to give away Sep 15, 2005 Selbstportrait mit Kater Sep 14, 2005 A meat for some seasons Sep 12, 2005 A novel method for achieving levitation Sep 6, 2005 Senex bysshe puer Sep 6, 2005 Wolf Solo Sep 4, 2005 Roads girdle the globe Aug 29, 2005 I like my women the way I like my talc: soft, with perfect cleavage and pearly luster Aug 24, 2005 Why no posts Aug 24, 2005 An ambition Aug 20, 2005 A peeled willow wand Aug 17, 2005 Non-recycled thoughts about the Aristocrats Aug 17, 2005 There aren't a lot of words that rhyme with "Miata". Aug 15, 2005 Those mountainous goats Aug 15, 2005 Self-indulgent post about moving Aug 14, 2005 Mysteries of translation. Aug 13, 2005 Could the line in Tom Waits' "Shore Leave", about how "The same moon outside over this Chinatown fair could look down on Illinois, and find you there" is a reference to "I see the moon and the moon sees me / The moon sees the somebody I want to see"? Aug 11, 2005 Geisterfaust Aug 10, 2005 How can we be moved by the fate of Kend/all Walt/on? Aug 9, 2005 I want to punch Chris Martin in his simpering puss Aug 9, 2005 A lesson in logical reasoning Aug 8, 2005 In a world... Aug 7, 2005 What's your business here, Elijah? Aug 6, 2005 Two instrumental combinations I would like to see Aug 4, 2005 A Note on Names Aug 3, 2005 He don't write smileys Jul 31, 2005 Whence? Jul 31, 2005 The 60s were a more innocent time Jul 30, 2005 Bubo-Lytton Awards Jul 29, 2005 I have a new favorite insult Jul 29, 2005 This just in Jul 29, 2005 donnerstäglicher Übersetzungsversuch Jul 28, 2005 What could this even mean? Jul 28, 2005 You know why birds don't write memoirs? Because birds don't lead epic lives, that's why! Jul 27, 2005 Because, you see, this pasta's sauce contained no tomatoes. Jul 26, 2005 Could it be that I … like tomatoes? Jul 26, 2005 I'm somewhat worried about what that might imply, actually. Jul 25, 2005 Though I curiously have yet failed to raven the pasta I made last night. Jul 25, 2005 Pies do have something of a hypnotic effect on me, though—like pasta. Jul 24, 2005 Honestly, it wasn't even that great a pie. Jul 23, 2005 Just that it's not as if anyone would have been compelled to duplicate my actions because of its quality. Jul 23, 2005 Which is by no means to say that it was bad Jul 23, 2005 In the end I finished the rest of the pie (about 1/6) this morning. Jul 22, 2005 It's not the ill effects of having eaten so much pie in a day that concern me, Jul 22, 2005 Not that that's much of a victory; I still ate 5/6 of a pie in a single sitting Jul 22, 2005 so much as what it says about me; my ability to resist temptation, e.g. Jul 22, 2005 By the end of today I will probably have eaten an entire pie. Jul 21, 2005 As that which now I draw from my pants Jul 20, 2005 Dim proleptic memories Jul 20, 2005 I don't have a problem with consistency Jul 20, 2005 Suspension of disbelief Jul 19, 2005 The condition to which I aspire Jul 16, 2005 Porcum non conveniens Jul 15, 2005 c-h-i-c-k-e-n, that's the way you spell "chicken" Jul 14, 2005 Ignis fatuous Jul 14, 2005 Ignis infatuate Jul 14, 2005 Sweet productivity Jul 13, 2005 A niche market Jul 9, 2005 Who killed Laura Staunton? Jul 9, 2005 Orthrelm's OV: Kickass or totally sweet? Jul 8, 2005 You're gonna lose that girl Jul 8, 2005 Why am I always the last to find out about things? Jul 7, 2005 Tom Cruise should be careful Jul 6, 2005 I have a problem with Kai Hammermeister. Jul 3, 2005 You're going to set me up as some kind of slovenly attached pig that Jack Kornfeld can slice down in his violent zen compassion? Jul 3, 2005 I am going mad Jul 2, 2005 New breakthroughs in musical descriptive terminology Jul 1, 2005 A matter of time Jun 30, 2005 I have a problem with form. Jun 30, 2005 Probably not a good thing to have said Jun 29, 2005 Cock! Kidney! Jun 28, 2005 Conversations with co-workers, 2 Jun 28, 2005 Incorrectly titled albums Jun 27, 2005 I am also from Alexandria Jun 26, 2005 Poetry in everyday life Jun 26, 2005 An original gangster from Tripoli Jun 23, 2005 I do not think that conjunction means what you think it means Jun 22, 2005 La musique d'Erich Zann Jun 22, 2005 Lord Donnell's not at home Jun 22, 2005 Simplot Jun 20, 2005 Supercalafragilisticexpialodocious Jun 17, 2005 Friday pie-blogging Jun 16, 2005 You can learn a lot on the internet Jun 16, 2005 An important question Jun 14, 2005 When they pulled you from the wreck, you still had on your shades Jun 12, 2005 Furrfu Jun 9, 2005 If I had a pony, I would ride it on my boat Jun 9, 2005 What's strange about this headline? Jun 9, 2005 What I did today. Jun 8, 2005 A thesis Jun 7, 2005 Down among the unclefts, things do not happen in steady flowings, but in leaps between bestandings that are forbidden Jun 7, 2005 Pure chewing satisfaction Jun 7, 2005 Let's dance with irregular rhythms Jun 6, 2005 Mommy, why does it hurt when I read? Jun 6, 2005 A shocking realization Jun 5, 2005 A scanner darkly Jun 3, 2005 I am a ploughboy stout and strong as ever drove a team Jun 3, 2005 Meeting people is easy Jun 3, 2005 Shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoesy shoes, shoes shoes shoes shoesy shoes. Jun 3, 2005 Cockroach, your problems are not mine May 30, 2005 Told me pools were too plebeian / Told me you were in th'Aegean May 26, 2005 We can only hope! May 25, 2005 Where is the melody? May 25, 2005 Avoiding the low-hanging fruit May 24, 2005 And here I thought scrimshaw was impressive May 22, 2005 Told me meat was too plebeian / Told me you were through with viand May 21, 2005 This is a post for The Weblog May 20, 2005 A fundamental misapprehension May 19, 2005 Thank heaven for Milton Berle's nutz May 19, 2005 The death of Roland, the headless ball turret gunner May 17, 2005 The Roswell Ruddy-Cheeked Youth Orchestra May 17, 2005 I &isin jet May 13, 2005 What I was like in real life in 1999 May 12, 2005 Turn body sac inside out May 11, 2005 *Fuck you and wash the dishes. May 10, 2005 Pre-blog media like the novel May 9, 2005 A tragedy of errors May 8, 2005 The cursèd intarnet May 8, 2005 An experiment in terror May 6, 2005 Does the Pope shit in the woods? May 6, 2005 Messages for two fellow passengers on the El May 5, 2005 What we talk about when we talk about dog vaginas May 5, 2005 DOGG check it I am by this creek;
and I got hell of emotions ... in my brain May 4, 2005 No one knows which is asleep, and which one is inspired May 4, 2005 A fair cop, while he's away May 3, 2005 We move through weather May 3, 2005 I am uncharitable. May 2, 2005 In the tradition of Flann O'Brien May 2, 2005 43-Man Squamous Apr 29, 2005 cruor nucis—fux0r! Apr 29, 2005 What we've got here, we've got multiple items here Apr 29, 2005 A wondering wabout words. Apr 28, 2005 The difference between man-magma and man-lava Apr 27, 2005 What are the rewards of virtue? Apr 27, 2005 ! Apr 26, 2005 So, about this war you are having with the Megalons, how is that working out? Apr 26, 2005 This idea not for stealing Apr 25, 2005 I feel that I should not be doing this Apr 23, 2005 Why does Dr. Pepper come in Mr. Pibb? Apr 22, 2005 Goings on about town Apr 21, 2005 He wore a daffodil tucked into the band of his hat and told me that it's terrible to grow old. Apr 21, 2005 Hella grass all living in the interstices Apr 20, 2005 I am a neko wafer Apr 20, 2005 I fear this may be sage advice Apr 20, 2005 A contest 3: a resulting Apr 19, 2005 Guy Maddin is coming to the University of Chicago Apr 19, 2005 A contest 2: a voting Apr 18, 2005 An observation Apr 17, 2005 ...the day Apr 17, 2005 From Brig o' Dread when thou mayst pass Apr 14, 2005 Alkaline Apr 13, 2005 Dear NYU Apr 12, 2005 A contest Apr 10, 2005 Here are some quotations from Georg Lichtenberg. Apr 10, 2005 Freedom, horrible freedom Apr 9, 2005 Why is 6 afraid of 7? Apr 9, 2005 A concert Apr 8, 2005 The sweetnesse of ninjas Apr 7, 2005 You must change your life Apr 7, 2005 The most ridiculous thing ever? Apr 6, 2005 What shall I tell your brother dear, this night when I go home? Apr 1, 2005 What will become of the arctic circle candy? Apr 1, 2005 A question qoncerning qouture Mar 31, 2005 One man bows while another man plucks Mar 31, 2005 The first brass band of spring Mar 30, 2005 A story to delight and instruct Mar 29, 2005 I have always wanted to make love to a woman with punctuational nomenclature Mar 29, 2005 Three things that are true Mar 29, 2005 There is no Linda Thompson but Kelly Clarkson, and Ted Leo is her Richard, or, I am a crank Mar 25, 2005 Coming soon to a commodious vicus near you Mar 24, 2005 I do not think that word means what they think it means Mar 24, 2005 Two possible crossword clues whose answer depends on mispronouncing Akira Kurosawa's name Mar 22, 2005 900 miles from my home Mar 21, 2005 I am death so Ragnarock with me Mar 21, 2005 The end of the graduate-industrial complex Mar 20, 2005 A Poem Mar 18, 2005 Airports for light Mar 15, 2005 Just so I don't forget Mar 15, 2005 One and seven-eighths bands: Oso, Flockerkit, Zs Mar 15, 2005 The want for a want Mar 15, 2005 You're telling me! Mar 14, 2005 The problem with the English language Mar 13, 2005 The power of prayer Mar 11, 2005