Author: Steve
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I tried to make a voice post
Hopefully the LiveJournal vibes can be captured. Loved the voice posting. It was so long ago now. Here’s my attempt!
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LiveJournal
did you ever use LiveJournal? I miss it a lot. The reason I miss it mostly is because LiveJournal existed prior to social media, and was a great way to have a social media style friends list and feed, but it was long form too. LiveJournal though was only long-form if you wanted it to…
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Bernie Sanders, X, and Essentialism
Why is Bernie, or any other left-leaning person still using X or Twitter? This makes little sense to me. I guess this is just another example of people not realizing how their daily actions impact their politics. We need actual dialectical analytical folks out there with the political commentary, not just professional politicians with a…
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Spotify and Driving
Last time I drove regularly I had three options: FM radio, AM radio and a CD player. I would move between them depending on the drive, the trip, the feeling, the attitude – to use a Burkean word. I felt like I should be able to find something good I’d want to hear in my…
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We’re Doomed
I just saw an English professor post on Facebook that taking students to the theater “Solves nothing,” but is a “nice distraction from things.” We are doomed if English professors have given up on the political, social, and psychological transformations that theater provides. I think we need to force people to read Kenneth Burke.
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Three Takes on the U.S. Presidential Election
Take 1: The difficult rhetorical lesson – if there is any perception that one’s economic situation is not as good as it once was, that belief cannot be engaged with any claims about human rights, rights to live how one wishes, civil rights protections or any such claim. This perception can be very minimal. For…
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Writing Studies
Writing studies seems so much more serious than anything going on in speech communication rhetoric to me these days. I think what’s most attractive is the focus on the idea of pedagogy. This requires the assumption that people can change if we give them opportunity to do so, and that opportunity exists in the carefully…
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Working in the Library
There’s nothing like it. Bukowski really nailed it when he wrote about it. It’s my second day here at the Saratoga Public library doing some work and it’s overflowing with joy for me. I’m in Saratoga Springs with my partner as she is here attending a state teacher’s meeting. I tagged along for support, good…
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New Job
I’d like to say I have a new job but this would be equivocation. What’s really happening is my relationship with my job is totally different than it used to be due to distance in many ways. The first kind of distance – geographical. I now live an hour and 20 minutes from the office.…
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An Argument
The most valuable things for me in college were reading books and discussing them (or listening to the professor talk about them). The other valuable thing was being in clubs, meeting people and making relationships. I don’t think either of these are possible any longer. Students are on campus a minimal amount of time due…
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