AMERICA FANGED: THE VAMPIRE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY By Richard A. Cooper Americans were shocked to learn there were vampires walking in daylight amongst them. We had thought vampires to be fictional monsters. Then they were described by academics, politicians and journalists as tormented souls with problems of loneliness and eternal boredom. The […]
Say Hello to Matt White…
Matt White, one of today’s most intriguing and gifted new artists, has been named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “10 Artists To Watch.” Gearing up for the release of White’s debut album, DO YOU BELIEVE, Geffen Records has released BLEEKER STREET STORIES, , featuring 3 songs from White’s forthcoming album. White joined Lifehouse on the […]
On-line downloads how to make them work…
Today the BBC are talking about on-line viewing and how its impacting current viewing statistics. They talk about the fact that CSI Miami had more than 1,000 people sharing the latest file from one source. The Beeb talk about piracy and how the Internet has become the global video recorder. Check out what they have […]
Scott Adam’s Interview creator of Dilbert
I was very bored the other day and needed something to write about so i thought about how many great bloggers there were out there and thought hmmm why not interview one. So i googled the word "blog" and came across the Scott Adams Blog, the creator of the comic Dilbert. Having been a massive […]
Philosophic Cartoons, illustrations by Alice Shay
Cartoons
The Ego & Its Own
Marx Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own is an ideal archetype for the phenomenological historian. Stirner, a whiny Hegel’s-younger-brother figure, at other times an inbred cousin of Rousseau’s confessional persona (not that these are mutually exclusive). But the guy captures it-to Hegel’s owl of Minerva he is day old pizza. His philosophic musings are vulnerable, […]