I can think of few social theories that captivated me as much in college as that of cultural hegemony which ironically came from a Communist named Antonio Gramsci. He couldn’t understand why all the predicted marxist revolutions had not ocurred in Western Democracies. Gramsci argued that the workers had not organized and overthrown [...]

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I’ve been married five and a half years now and I’ve found that one of the secrets to a successful marriage isn’t open communication or any of that other bullshit. One of the best things you can do is find a task that your partner absolutely hates doing and one in which you only [...]

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There is a major detour on a main road near my home and as a result, I have had to find an alternate route. I’ve tried several but yesterday I took a road I hadn’t yet taken. It is a windy road that runs through some truly beautiful country. Columbus, Ohio has [...]

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I found the peak in the Harry Potter story; there is a period of about one minute in these books where everything is as perfect for Harry as it can possibly get (not counting any time spent with his soon to be dead parents as an infant). The minute occurs in the third novel [...]

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OK, so I lied about Tony Pierce. I swore I’d never read his site again after the last little skirmish we got in but I’ve been keeping up with him from time to time frankly because despite the millions of blogs out there, it’s really hard to find writers who consistently put out engaging [...]

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Having a blog with the name Boys Wear Pants, Men Wear Trousers, you could just imagine some of the sick shit that people type into google and end up getting my site instead. But the past few days, I’ve been getting a steady stream of traffic from folks googling my name and not in [...]

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Tonight I made a purchase that was a long time coming. I procured a copy of the newly released 30th Anniversary Edition of the 1970s miniseries Roots based on Alex Haley’s book.
I wasn’t cognizant enough in 1977 to appreciate the social impact of the book or miniseries but I did pick up the first [...]

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All my energy lately has been going into work, work outside work and writing a screenplay about the life of one of my personal heroes. Writing a screenplay is much different from writing fiction as you are essentially creating visual images accompanied by dialogue on the page whereas with fiction, you are painting ideas [...]

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Chrissy’s dead and it turns out he was Tony’s albatross of bad luck, the black cloud surrounding his entire existence or at least that’s how Tony now sees it. His failures are successfully buried and at the end of the episode, high on peyote and in the presence of a whore, he finally breaks [...]

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I finally made a big Harry Potter investment that I’ve been meaning to for some years. I bought all the books on CD and even pre-ordered the seventh and final one. I listened to the books before I read them just because it’s my preferential way to ingest a book. I love [...]

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