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Why I read what I read

Monday, July 7, 2008

I finished Infinite Jest in January and, at the behest of a certain someone, recently picked up Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.  Once again, I find myself meandering through a lengthy postmodern tome, this time set in a reimagined version of turn of the century America.  There are windships and æther, anarchists and Nikola Tesla, [...]

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There goes the neighborhood

Friday, June 13, 2008

I am currently sitting at the Satellite Cafe in Albuquerque’s “Nob Hill” district—about a mile-long stretch of Route 66 that runs from the intersection of Carlisle and Central to right around where the University of New Mexico starts.  For as long as I can remember, this relatively tiny span of our city has been home [...]

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Commodification: carbon credits and strippers

Monday, March 24, 2008

I went to Las Vegas, Nevada a couple of weeks ago to see two of my good friends get hitched.  After congregating with the families of both the bride and the groom for dinner, a small contingent of us hopped in a limo and went out to paint the town red.  We ended up at [...]

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