I generally try to avoid talking about my personal life unless I can somehow relate it to culture or theory, or unless I’m writing about things done alone, and can omit personal information about friends and acquaintances. I’ve been reading Hegel and Marx, lately, and my brain wants me to relate the following to labour, [...]

Dear the World,
Life is sad. And while, sure, there are hurricanes and earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, it’s largely sad because we make it sad. So here’s the deal:

If you’ve got something that sucks, ditch it. Quit your job. Drop out of school. Break up with your abusive lover.
Don’t be afraid to reach. As the man [...]

God forbid there should be disagreement in matters of taste, right?

Robert Zemeckis, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Crispin Glover, John Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich: Beowulf.

Sing huzzah for the life of the soilèd worm!

…is Punk. Rawk.

Friday night was the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading, at which Allen Ginsberg first read his poem ‘Howl‘. The poem was scandalous for its day in several ways, not least of which was its overt homosexuality. LitQuake had an anniversary reading with all sorts of famous San Franciscans, but I couldn’t afford a [...]

Kinship charts!
Kinship charting is one of those skills I probably should have picked up as an undergrad, but they always seemed so quaint and antiquarian — the sort of thing that progressive anthropology stored away in a box with social evolution and words like ‘phratry’ and ‘fetish’. On the rare occasion that I needed to [...]

I have a rule about film adaptations of comic books. And that rule is: No. But this was before Savage Minds’ Kerim Friedman and the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives’ Robert Leopold introduced the anthropologosphere to the astounding Matt Price, Jr.

I have dreamt of being an anthropologist since my sophomore year of college. But I haven’t usually literally dreamt of being an anthropologist…