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“Are You Michael Stipe’s Da?” 27 Sep 2011 | 11:00 am
Ah, yes … it was July 17, 2003—the only time I ever saw, or will see, R.E.M. perform live. Though I felt like I’d already seen them: the concert documentary, Road Movie, collapses three nights of perf...
This One Goes Out to the Ones I Loved 23 Sep 2011 | 12:02 pm
Nothing like a favorite band calling it quits to rouse a blogger out of his stupor. I’ll try to capture some thoughts, over the next few days, regarding R.E.M.’s announcement yesterday that they’re th...
What Hath YouTube Wrought? The Exciting Conclusion 13 Sep 2011 | 02:00 am
More troubling, aesthetic hating seems, according to a logic that eludes me, to beget personal hating. Comments on the “Friday” YouTube page resemble a kind of gang violence, which is being perpetrate...
What Hath YouTube Wrought, Pt. 2 10 Sep 2011 | 04:17 am
[Sorry for the delay: Part 2 today, finishing up on Monday.--KD] In retrospect, I think “Chocolate Rain” marked the start of something: It would be much tougher to say the start of exactly what. But a...
What Hath YouTube Wrought? 7 Sep 2011 | 10:02 am
Back in May, I published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that I really loved. But it coincided both with end-of-term and with the summer hibernation of fcrp, and so was sort of forgotten...
Never Let Me Go, Finis 6 Sep 2011 | 04:51 am
We needn’t sit helpless in front of the TV, of course; one of the great debates in cultural studies over the past couple decades has been waged over the notion that consumers of mass media might have ...
Never Let Me Go, Pt. 2 3 Sep 2011 | 02:00 am
So I don’t want to pursue the allegorical reading of the novel this evening, as easy and as tempting that is. I want to look at a related question—the novel’s enactment of various narrative strategies...
On Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go 2 Sep 2011 | 02:00 am
I had the pleasure on Sunday night to address the incoming Pomona first-year students on the topic of the first-year reading: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. I thought I’d post those remarks here, b...
Undead 31 Aug 2011 | 10:30 am
Today’s the first day of classes back here at Pomona College, and I’ve been struck–heartened, embarrassed, surprised, flummoxed–by the number of students, faculty, staff (even parents) who have asked ...
On Reading My Facebook Friends Recommendations, Pt. III (finis) 20 Apr 2011 | 12:00 am
Some decisions are just common sense: I don’t friend the kids of friendz, nor the friendz of my own kids. Rule of thumb: as a middle-aged man, never send a friend request to one of your daughter’s gir...
