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demongin.org - Archive View for 2004

Archive View for 2004:

July
8 Pattern Against User demongin.org's innaugural post: handwritten html served from a user home directory on a 1and1 server: the humblest imaginable beginnings.
9 DNS Error Kenneth Anger: what a guy.
10 I'll wear the claws if you like that A short biographical post about nothing in particular.
11 John Bonham Another post of random biographical details (with a focus on cuticle health).
12 A Belt Made of Female Nipples An excerpt from http://myps2isbustedasfuck.com and assorted autobiographical details.
13 Closer to the Lung Some light journaling and a homecoming announcement are relayed.
14 Endless/Nameless Announcements: a birthday, a purchase and a death in the family.
15 Crash World The A Cinderella Story soundtrack arrives and causes me to reflect briefly on Trent Reznor's haitus-in-progress.
16 No Gin To-nite File Not Found
17 'cuz I'm a Vampire In which I receive a randy text message from an ex-girlfriend and reflect on Martha Stewart.
18 Afraid to Die I finally see A Cinderella Story: some initial reflections after a short autobiographical interlude.
19 Sic Gloria Transit File Not Found
20 Special Advertising Section A short plug for Jet followed by the announcement of the farewell fete for Ice Planet Hell.
21 The King of Beers A short reflection on David Fincher and a plug for my essay on A Cinderella Story.
22 Shot Glass of Lymph While driving, I reflect on the language of advertisements and the upcoming Box Social at Ice Planet Hell.
23 No Gin To-nite File Not Found
24 Conan, what is best? Wherein I describe having pondered the "big questions" and how I lived to regret it.
25 Wake Up with Hilary Duff The happenings of the day remind me about how every silver lining has a cloud.
26 Closer to the Light A short reflection on "genius mode" and the empty rush of having accomplished a whole lot of nothing.
27 Team Put it in the Butt On the eve of the Box Social, I experience acute anxiety regarding an ex.
28 Like Ribbons Anticipation grows for the final Box Social event.
29 Give it to Me; I can Take it In which I disclaim my blogging responsibilities.
30 File Not Found File Not Found
31 File Not Found File Not Found
August
1 File Not Found File Not Found
2 Get on the Bomb In the aftermath of Box Social Four.
3 You Let Me Drink Dead Blood!? Hatred, bad manners and Lexmark printers.
4 Polonia Star A pearl of wisdom amidst summary details regarding my personal escape from Ice Planet Hell.
5 Denial of Service I clean my laptop, physically and metaphorically, in preparation for my entry into professional academia.
6 K.K. Star road The Proscriptions Lock-in begins.
7 Press Y to Exit I prepare for life in Connecticut by laying in my bed and playing Doom 3.
8 I Swear This Place is Cursed In which I prepare to ship out for good.
9 Jim Beamin' A short update about the progress towards the completion of The Proscriptions Lock-in.
10 Looped Another teaser about The Proscriptions' recording session in-progress.
11 $GWG$ Another update on the Lock-in, followed by a short reflection on how it feels to be moving away.
12 They're Calling Down from the Mountain In which I bid my farewells to Ice Planet Hell.
13 Erased. Over. Out. Earnest reflections on the final session of The Proscriptions' Lock-in.
14 Untitled Track File Not Found
15 Fly I arrive in Connecticut. I settle in. I shake a threatening fist at Yale's IT department.
16 The IKEA Nesting Instinct I continue to settle in.
17 DOOM An update on Proscriptions post-production and some new pictures.
18 Remember the alamo? My celebrated appraisal of what things go "bump" in the New Haven night.
19 Deal Breaker Baby The adventure of New Haven begins in earnest: a creative reverie.
20 You Got the Big Key! The conclusion of the New Haven adventure. Proscriptions updates.
21 At Least the Girl Can Rock A withering appraisal of Hilary Duff's The Girl Can Rock DVD.
22 Is This What a Man Looks Like? I tour New Haven with my new camera.
23 Be Prepared to Reap the Whirlwind On the website (demongin.org) and the completion of Fenix Down
24 Wake up with Hilary Duff (vol. II) I purchase a scanner. I suffer Windows issues.
25 Days and Nights of Hybris More scanner problems.
26 Does Enough Equal Enough? Assorted thoughts on the (mis-)conduct of my newfound peers at Yale.
27 Loyola File Not Found
28 Still Isaac Hayes plays on the New Haven Green. Inspired by the calmness of the event, I make plans to drink to wretched excess.
28 A Cinderella Essay A DemonGin.org "Feature" in which I consider two reviews of Hilary Duff's A Cinderella Story.
29 Service Guarantees Citizenship! In which I reflect on Verhoeven's Starship Troopers and lapse into a short revenge fantasy.
30 Blueman Group is Like Soup A reflection on coastal humidity and the "social hibernation" that comes with the start of a new semester.
31 The Post-Kaelian Critical Elite I reflect briefly on some wise words from Chino Moreno on the eve of my first day of graduate school.
September
1 T.H. White: Still Mad at the World On TH White, The Once and Future King, Alan Alda and professional obligations to one's own feelings.
2 Hands on the Bible The first of many Notabilia in usum posts where I iterate quickly through important insights. This post deals with doorless Jeeping and Popeye's Chicken (among other topics).
3 Left for Dead File Not Found
4 Wonderful Tonight Some new pictures are posted to Petridish.net. I describe waking up face-down on the beach.
5 I Gather the Limbs of Osiris Wide-ranging ruminations on the colorscheme of demongin.org.
6 Aria de Capo A short consideration of various types of thinkers; "dutiful" thinking, "inspired" thinking and the varying intellectual styles and capacities of man.
7 The Moltmann Prophecies I am selected to ferry world-famous theologian Jurgen Moltmann to and from Yale's Divinity School for an upcoming speaking engagement.
8 Rise from your Grave! (I) Part one of my exegesis of Altered Beast.
9 Rise from your Grave! (II) Part one of my exegesis of Altered Beast.
10 Alright, alright, alright File Not Found
11 No, I'm the asshole I purchase a television. And regret it immediately.
12 Rise from your Grave! (III) Part three of my exegesis of Altered Beast.
13 From my Personal Stash A collection of high-res scans of handouts from Dr Alexander MacGregor's Roman Rhetoric class. Very awesome.
15 Highly Affected Academic non-anti-Semitism A list of items I intend to cover (i.e. blog) in the immediate future.
16 Tamper Tinker Tempt Thoughts on familiarity and unfamiliarity: Christian metaphysics as "strange" and pagan antiquity as "home".
17 Hesperus--star of the evening A bad hangover in the making.
18 Materia Medica Last night's bad hangover in the making plays itself out: Stanley Fish and the state of modern medicine are discussed.
19 The Snake Spoke! An estimation of how much imporant intellectual progress is squandered, lost and omitted in order to accomodate the work of the day.
20 De Institutio On instruction and the nature of things instructive.
21 Sprawling Normative Vocabularies On purple prose, academic writing and how (not) to write well.
22 We Win, Gracie A few bullet points on recent demongin.org action items (including the advent of "Outlawed Pipes"); an anecdotal account of scholarly arrogance.
23 Requiescat in Pace Russ Meyer. A hypertext link to Aristotle's Rhetorica.
24 Mollified Reflections on McKeon's edition of Aristotle. An excerpt from Ezra Pound.
25 Sibi Scribere Procrastination re: Karls Barth and Rahner leads to a poetic reverie...and a journey to the World of the Dead.
26 The Living Dead A short update on my academic progress.
27 Ipso facto and Subsequent Redaction A crash course in basic literary critical theory of the C20. Starring Wimsatt, Beardsley and "Mad" Ezra Pound.
28 Ridete, puellae The release of Hilary Duff's eponymous album causes me to vomit with joy. I also have occassion to reflect on my life, it's goals and, indirectly, it's progress.
29 Ah, but I'm not in Canada File Not Found
30 Ritual Mutilation On self-destruction, alcohol abuse and the intersection of habit and ritual.
October
1 It Fuckin Figures I have a day without a hangover. And a couch.
2 Composition First, some updates on the present and future of demongin.org. Second, a good maxim for teaching composition.
3 Avernus is Easy Matt Brent on finding hope and uncertainty in the first commercial release of a product.
4 Bloodshot Hips (intestines, orifices) Against Nietzsche on the idea that teachers are buffoons and wasters. A short update on my academic schedule.
5 Your heart? Broken! I describe the big ideas behind my annotated bibliography project, explaining the big movements in literary theory that occurred during the 20th century, dwelling on Stanley Fish and his so-called "reader response" school of criticism.
6 Grind Stone Upon returning home from my first night at my new job, I lament my sad fate.
7 Live from the Campus Martius In which I question the lack of martial theory and find that the lack of an existential imperative isn't as bad as you might think.
8 Special News Update I emote.
9 In the Darkness of Shadow Moses In which I speculate briefly on Hideo Kojima's spiritual well-being.
10 In Eandem File Not Found
11 Waiting for Adam, Still The inarticulate and cringe-inducing scribblings of A.K.M. Adam, a shining example of how not to write and think, prompts me to recall my Sahlins: wackiness ensues.
12 Abyssinia, Henry A mysogynistic, homophobic tirade in brevis. Topics include M*A*S*H, Avril Lavigne and Metal Gear.
13 I Heart the 'Teuch In which I mark the passing of Jaques Derrida with an encomium to the tidy philosophizing and lean writing of Immanuel Kant.
14 Coyote Ugly A short reflection on how the dyer takes on the color of his vat.
15 Holler back, Winamp Winamp = Deprecated. Long live Windows Media Player 10.
16 Welcome to the Crucible In which I gird my loins against midterm exams.
17 maesta infelicem puerum puella pulsat I describe the pressure of midterms and finish with a short reflection on the paradoxical lamentations of willing slaves.
18 haec ego mente Dawn.
19 Sick File Not Found
20 Still Sick File Not Found
21 Ghost Hall Bldg. 10F I check in again, briefly, and hint at the fact that I'm almost done with Shenmue 2.
22 Did He Say Making Fuck? I finish Shenmue 2
23 Fade Out, Fade In A procedural account of the work of a GPSCY door person.
24 Sunday Miscellany Assorted notes on Sunday's reading. Some observations on the academy and on the Hebrew Bible; two articles by Segovia and Collins as the spur.
25 Without a Tear, Without a Trace Further reflections on the necessity of suffering, Aristotle's Rhetorica and shunning consolation.
26 Nope!!! Mamet's Heist, Scott's Man on Fire and the Southpark movie.
27 Spiritual Sloth In which I discuss Wordsworth's preface to Lyrical Ballads, the "gem-hard flame" and the desperate need for intellectual honesty in the time of institutionalized idio-phobia.
28 Suicide Girls An ordered list of various recent topics of interest: Halloween, Nine Inch Nails and Karl Barth.
29 The Reform Tradition Party Pics!
30 Many Glorious Things A list of things learned from my first GPSCY Halloween.
31 What Makes Iago Evil? In which I tackle the Big Question.
November
1 Cold Hard Bitch In which I lament various personal failings.
2 Come, Visit my Villa on the Via Dolorsa A short reflection on failure and preparedness.
3 Keep it Live like Bleeding to Death Presidential elections as catharsis; recommendations for more efficient cathartic experiences.
4 The Troubles, Revisited Clarifications to yesterday's post about presidential elections and catharsis.
5 Miroslav Volf, instructor by proxy Or, rather, "by default." Or, perhaps better, "on accident and totally in spite of himself."
6 Mulciber's Hierarchy of Intellect Demonic Existential Metaphysics!
7 Amor Vincit Omnia "Cupid and Psyche", from Cupid's perspective (as related to me personally by the god himself).
8 Belial's Hierarchy of Desire Demonic Existential Metaphysics!
9 Shun to Taste A re-evaluation of Adam and Eve; Milton's theology coming out of Tyler Durden's mouth.
10 A Priori Synthetic Dogma There was a time, of course, before critical theory existed.
11 The Ethics of the Null Set On faith in things unseen; where and how the natural the supernatural intersect meaningfully for men.
12 Eikonoklastes v. the Theory Chicks A rough taxonomy.
13 The Ice Cold Earth 少年黒い風が泣いてる……。
14 Games and Theory In which I renounce the systematic study of...pretty much every damn thing.
15 Circa Diem; the Rhythm of Life I live-blog my way through another bleak, monotonous New Haven Saturday.
16 On Fable I review Peter Molyneux's Fable...and find it wanting
17 Live from the Agonies I rail against the unseemly habit of postmodern literature to treat reading literature like a cocktail party and a fundraiser.
18 Sacrifice On sacrifice as the ultimate affirmation of one's humanity.
19 Trap McReznon I renounce blogs as a medium suitable for anything other than personal journaling.
20 With Friends Like These Matt Brent responds to last night's vitriolic and self-defeating cry for help. I respond gratefully.
21 Darth Moses In which I sketch the parallels (obvious!) between The Pentateuch's Moses and Star Wars' Darth Vader.
22 File Not Found File Not Found
23 Dial 'M' for Men I reflect on some of Oliver Stone's recent bad press.
24 The Chosen People Identity politics in brevis: Penny Arcade, John Rawls, Richard Rorty and the WB's Roswell.
25 Like a Spider Might Do It I reflect on a http://petridish.net outage.
26 Existentially Yours in Crisis Thanksgiving! A time for contemplating the endless war between mind and body (as it is played out in the pages of history and philosophy).
27 I'm a Misogynist? Bitch, please. Part I
28 I'm a Misogynist? Bitch, please. Part II
29 The Living Oracle I consider criticisms leveled against student writing and play Devil's Advocate.
30 I'll take 'The Rapists.' On rape and rapture; the morbid sexuality of the moribund imagination.
December
1 Against Existentialism (cont') A short, tongue-in-cheek dismissal of existentialism en masse.
2 Theory Chicks (con't) or 'I can subvert the cominant paradigm; why can't you?'
Five meditations upon an encounter.
3 Pace, James Mustard Vapid remarks from theologian Stanley Hauerwas become an occasion to reflect on what to do with one's life.
4 An Old Killer Bee Once Hummed Me a Tune I work the door for a private party...with hilarious political consequences.
5 Sun and Steel In which I take up two clews from recent posts and explore them at length; the result of my exploration is a strange manifesto about distress, ecstasy and discipline.
6 St. Audrey's Lace In which I summarize Carolyn Sharp's meandering, obscuritanist farewell to the hilarious pageant of post-modern tomfoolery and bunberrying that she conducted in the fall of 2004: a fitting capstone for an Old Testament lecture class that will forever be described by its students with a chuckle, a shrug and an imploring, "who knows?!"
7 Emily Scott - We Wait On the suddenness of languor.
8 In Syndication (I) In which I introduce the idea of syndication, explain its necessity and excerpt an essay on Karl Barth's Trinity.
9 A Theoretical Aside On the necessity of dialectics; an analogy between theoretical texts and dramatic ones.
10 The Lightsaber In which I fail to understand Obi-Wan Kenobi's celebrated insight that the lightsaber belongs to a "more civilized age."
11 Variations on a Theme On the special relationship between Aristotelean concept of tragedy and the normal-versus-normative debate in linguistics.
12 In Syndication (II) A syndication excerpt from an essay on Horrace via Milton.
13 Advent: a PR Coup d'Etat A deeply cynical, thoroughly tongue-in-cheek piece of ironic Christian apologia.
14 Squeezed from the Male Bag Responses to yesterday's post: two emails from friends.
15 In Syndication (III) Excerpts this time from a take-home history exam.
16 In Syndication (IV) Excerpt: Rahner on Christ
17 Consummatum est In which I rage drunkenly out and get positively nuts with the formatting.
18 Who's the Bad Guy? In which I take a lazy shot from the hip at the gender studies crowd.
19 A carmen meta-commentum for 2004 An update on the site and my comings and goings: I publish my Horace translation.
20 Now That's Fuckin' Teamwork! I return home, find it eminently loathsome, and make some choice remarks on the subject of suburban "life".
21 Further Meditations on... Carnality.
22 Irreverent/Maudlin On the medicinal properties of liquor and cigarettes.
23 Shoehorn a Little Tight, Achilles? Suburban life gets under your skin...like a chigger.
24 Like a Glittering Trail of Venom and Diamonds On the joy of driving; of losing oneself in driving.
25 Dona Nobis Pacem Christmas 2004: a return to Oz.
26 Kill All Vampires! On memory: its paradoxes and pitfalls.
27 Booze, Smokes and Whores Mean Nothing... In which I become increasingly stir-crazy.
28 Do Re Mi I return to my mother's house and log sundry observations.
29 Death March File Not Found
30 Kuwabara! Kuwabara! File Not Found
31 Outer Heaven File Not Found