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Posts tagged “essays”

Facebook v. Twitter, 2013

Facebook v. Twitter, 2013 November 30th, 2012 @ 11:18 pm PST

Oh, man. Every now and then your heroes validate themselves and it is magical. Two of my long-time internet heroes posted essays today about the difference between Twitter and Facebook, and both essays are absolutely brilliant. Matt Haughey, the founder of metafilter, a site I’ve frequented since the end of 1999, published an article on […]

Los Angeles

Five (More) Miles in Los Angeles August 5th, 2011 @ 7:08 am PDT

Even though I was still sore as hell from my run Tuesday night, I somehow managed to knock out another five mile run last night. I ran my standard “local loop”, which is east on Olympic to Beverwill, then south to Pico, and then west to Westwood back to Olympic. I almost thought that there […]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy September 26th, 2006 @ 7:13 pm PDT

This is an essay I wrote a loooong time ago … I must have been 13 or 14 … good old St. Paul’s Catholic Elementary School in Daytona Beach, FL …

Hemingway 1935

To Have and Have Not May 25th, 2002 @ 11:02 am PDT

The novel breaks from the traditional five act dramatic plot sequence.

books

Thomas Hardy May 24th, 2002 @ 12:06 pm PDT

On Thomas Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing” and “The Haunter”, an essay from 1996

books

Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin May 24th, 2002 @ 11:36 am PDT

On Jonathan Edwards’ Resolutions and Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanacks

stars

Minds, Brains, and Science April 11th, 2002 @ 4:13 pm PDT

Does John Searle, in his book Minds, Brains, and Science, succeed in explaining how mental phenomena can be nothing over and above neural phenomena and yet be caused by neural activity?

Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight April 10th, 2002 @ 2:59 pm PDT

In destinies sad or merry, True men can but try.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Meditations on First Philosophy March 28th, 2002 @ 4:07 pm PST

But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the image of something entails that everything which I clearly and distinctly perceive to belong to that thing really does belong to it, is not this a possible basis for another argument to prove the existence of God?

Blake – Urizen

Blake – Urizen March 26th, 2002 @ 11:12 am PST

If Blake was not simply stoned out of his mind, then what explanation can there be for this troubling work?

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