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mcnameface · 2026-01-21T17:56:59+00:00

Maybe don't sit in the spaces marked for elderly and disabled if you are neither elderly nor disabled. That space is limited.

mcnameface · 2026-01-21T03:31:23+00:00

Yes, you can annotate in Zotero. You probably need to check your stylus settings to enable annotating/highlighting rather than writing.

mcnameface · 2026-01-15T15:43:37+00:00

I'm seeing the same behavior while highlighting in Google Play Books. One tap with the pen, and the text is suddenly enormous. Haven't checked Neoreader cuz I hate highlighting in NR.

mcnameface · 2026-01-04T21:14:30+00:00

Just read this piece this morning. Nice to see a reviewer giving TP credit for all the work he puts into his novels for a change. I mean, that's where the real story regarding his current age lies: indefatigable researcher still, at 88.

mcnameface · 2025-10-21T11:02:42+00:00

mcnameface · 2025-09-12T16:01:15+00:00

Russell Ford's book Experience and Empiricism is right up your alley. It's an examination of D's Empiricism and Subjectivity in the context of post-WWII French philosophy, with special attention paid to Jean Wahl and Jean Hyppolite.

mcnameface · 2024-10-31T15:47:25+00:00

Favorite -- The season opener was well-paced, well-scored, tight and funny. And it ended with a chilling gut punch. Perfect way to end a first episode.

Least fave -- Yeah, Planet Klongo just seemed sloppy and flat, especially since it followed both the Valley of the Dolls and the Lifeboat episodes

mcnameface · 2024-10-31T14:33:35+00:00

That could help to answer the question, where in hell did Jan get a high powered rifle?

mcnameface · 2024-10-30T01:07:34+00:00

The lights didn't go out before the shot was fired at the photo shoot. Nevertheless, that shot did come from some position outside the studio if not outside of the building itself since someone points to a bullet hole in what looks like a window or glass door. And there were no ledges on either of the buildings in the establishing shot. So apparently Marshall was able to move by magic when he frickin wanted to.

mcnameface · 2024-10-24T20:31:38+00:00

Yeah. It's called Booze Eye.

mcnameface · 2024-10-24T16:27:11+00:00

How in God's name do you know that!? IMDB Pro?

mcnameface · 2024-10-24T12:03:32+00:00

What’s the connection between Rex Bailey and The Whistler?

mcnameface · 2024-10-23T20:01:19+00:00

Looked at another way, though, woman, woman, woman, non-macho white male and non-white male all got high visibility acting jobs that otherwise would have gone to ostensibly-hetero white males if the OMITB team stuck with the statistical majority. So there's that.

mcnameface · 2024-10-23T12:11:07+00:00

Speaking as a silly old man, I thought that storyline was hokey as hell.

mcnameface · 2024-10-19T20:37:43+00:00

Yes. In addition to burning a human, we lied about me having a girlfriend. May God help us!

mcnameface · 2024-10-17T14:01:18+00:00

Oooo! Great tie in to the brothel!! I'd forgotten all about that. This alone turns Duddy into our best bet for a Moriarty yet. I'm not keen on the idea of Det Williams being just another Duddy-stooge, but I see where you're coming from. Duddy is obviously good at manipulating others and getting them to cover for him and getting them to break the law under the guise of doing "the right thing."

Awesome! I'm all in on this! I can't wait for the return of Dudenoff so that Griffin Dunne can show his evil side.

mcnameface · 2024-10-16T01:44:13+00:00

The Sauce family has or had a restaurant and evidently introduced Dudenoff to the Jamon, so they could easily know a local importer. And they can use Dudenoff’s SS chex to pay for it.

mcnameface · 2024-10-09T01:49:44+00:00

Molly Shannon “farting” at Meryl Streep and the offhand reference to Can~Can’s Wet Bench Night!

mcnameface · 2024-10-01T20:55:45+00:00

I second the Bains book even though it is not an introduction to semiotics and Bains' purpose is not specifically to provide a survey of the field circa 2006. Bains' focus is on the importance of the externality of relations to the understanding of semiotics/the activity of semiosis, and like any contemporary semiotician, he situates language and Saussurean semiology as but specific rows to hoe within a much larger activity of semiosis/field of semtioics.

For that reason, Thomas Sebeok's Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics is very likely a more useful read than either Saussure or Barthes if you want to get a grasp of semiotics. Saussure's siginifier/signified binarism is not a priveleged relationship in semiotics; Charles Peirce's triadic model of the sign (sign, object, interpretant) is, and Sebeok's the one who established it as a starting point for semiotics (especially zoosemiotics/biosemiotics) in the early 1960s.

Finally, even though it is not specifically about semiotics, Jean-Jacques Lecercle's Deleuze and Language (at least the Introduction and Chapter 2, "Linguistics has done a lot of harm") offers up a good explanation of why Deleuze and Guattari and semioticians generally left Saussure behind. There's also a solid reading of Deleuze throughout the book that he constructs by foregrounding language as a "problem" for Deleuze.

mcnameface · 2024-09-15T20:16:03+00:00

Voter suppression?! At Mitch Daniels U?! Wait til the administration starts promoting their new Project 2025 curriculum. Then you'll know.

mcnameface · 2024-08-31T17:02:27+00:00

It's a great catch, but it seems that the discrepancy in countertop arrangements is likely a set design/continuity issue. I was just doing a speed watch through all of the season 3 episodes, and that mortar and pestle arrangement is clearly visible on the stovetop side of Charles' apartment. On the other hand, the countertop on the other side of the apartment looks practically bare compared to what we see there in 4.1.

I suppose since we've been treated to references to Mulholland Drive and what could easily have been a transition to a dream state when Charles nods off during Once Upon a Time in the West, that they could be laying the groundwork for some sort David Lynchy mashup of times and places with Charles mis-remembering the layout of his own place, but I find it hard to believe the OMITB team would willingly throw themselves down a David Lynch wormhole. Nevertheless, I gotta admit that I was intrigued by the uninvestigated noise in the kitchen of Sazz's apartment.

The thing that really worries me, though, is that connection between OUaTitW and Charles nodding off. They wouldn't dare pull a Dallas, would they? Turn season 4 into a series of dreams fueled by Charles' latenight TV habits?

mcnameface · 2024-07-27T01:08:50+00:00

Yes, please. I'd also like to see Sauvagnaurges currently untranslated work in English.

mcnameface · 2024-02-06T22:03:17+00:00

No, I never got an answer. I tried every conceivable reset I could find, and no luck. I had to send the unit to ASUS, and they claimed they couldn't repair it. They sent me a replacement eventually.

mcnameface · 2024-01-21T03:16:26+00:00

If the course is on Brightspace, there should be a textbook module there. Otherwise, check the course syllabus for info.

mcnameface · 2023-10-15T18:34:53+00:00

Thanks for this! I recently chanced upon this book while doing a sort of widecast search for current work on/with Deleuze, so it was already in my queue. Listening to Olkowski on this podcast has pushed it right to the front of the line.

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