I used to work late on Mondays and would listen to football on the CBS radio network during the very long drive home and visualize the games across the windshield. It was great.

- Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

The BFI's list of the top 100 films includes only six comedies and Playtime is the highest at #23. Indicates both that it deserves to be higher on the Variety list but, perhaps even more, there needs to be more respect for comedies generally. (While conceding that, yes, rankings are stupid.)

You might find this recent video essay interesting:

It's straight out of Carl Schmitt's The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.

I've already gotten my ticket and I'm looking forward to the talk but I thought I would let you know that, for some reason, you're not on Arts at the Armory's calendar.

The first time I drove through Vermont, I saw a music store sign that read, "For all your drum circle needs!" and I laughed so hard I almost wrecked my car.

I don't believe that this happened. Everyone knows that fully 60% of their menu uses yeti-meat and they would never pass on such an easy kill.

May I maintain my anti-friendships with academics?

I actually assigned the same video for my course on the aesthetics and ethics of video games. This upcoming Monday, it's paired with on Ian Bogost's chapter on "Political Processes" in Persuasive Games.