My midwestern journey was a success. bbq was eaten and used books were bought (as usual). I went to a Chiefs game. Lots of other things too. It was good to see the family - beat up the sibs, reassert my basketball dominance; that sort of thing. And ...

Well I didn't make it. I haven't been able to get time this evening to craft a suitable response to Trev's 2nd set of postulations. So, you can wish me peace and joy on my trip and direct your attention (for now) to Dan's blog. He has decided to dive ...

On a break at school... thought I'd post the link to Trevor's response. the previous dialogue (from the beginning). Trev's Article // Tim's Ad Hominem // Tim's Treatise If I can, I will try to post a concluding response sometime this evening. Then I'm off. I leave tomorrow for KC. I am ...

Rather than posting an extremely long comment, I've decided another post would be better. You can reach my first post here, and Trevor's article here. I think it is important to note that I do not take issue with Trevor’s entire article. Indeed, there are many positive things about it that ...

I've been busy of late. Midterms finished yesterday. Have you ever ran into any one of those super-cool postmodern Christian pantheists who is really fascinated by Eastern religions, likes to think his ideas are philosophically brilliant (and rather original), but who, in reality, comes off as a misguided sentimentalist who ...

This blog's identity as an exposition of myself is becoming fuller with every passing day. You've been exposed to my random bits of metacognition for quite some time, if this wasn't disturbing enough perhaps the latest additions of visual and audio experimentation will give you just cause to look to ...

Derrida died. In the early days of this blog, I talked quite a lot about his thought. In fact, the subheader of this blog ("spinning out the thread...") is a conglomeration of Derridean and Northropian thought (meaning as web to be spun out from Derrida; the concept of the Archetype from ...

Birthday wishes to the frontman of one of the best bands of all time. Thom Yorke of Radiohead turned 36 today. Despite his status as a Radiohead, there is a distinct aura of wimpiness to him. There's no question that if you saw Thom on the street ...

"...it would be best to say nothing about it, or if it must be told, tell it to a select few under oath of secrecy, at a rite which required, to restrict it still further, the sacrifice not of a mere pig but of something large and difficult to get." ...