Ruminations

Writers talk about writing what you know. “Good writing is true writing,” says Hemingway. “If a man[!] is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would…

I was listening to an old talk given by Žižek in which he mentions a by now very tired joke of a cafeteria waiter who upon being asked for a coffee without cream is forced to tell his patron that he can only offer him coffee without milk. Without getting into the Hegelo-Lacanianism which the…

I was searching for music to listen to while I wrote and I came across this: https://youtu.be/3qoBqdkNeXo It’s called “Sovietwave.” As soon as I tapped on the thumbnail (this was on my smartphone) of a purple-hazy photo of the Russian White House (after being shelled in 1991), I was captivated by the aesthetic oddity of…

I wanted to go back to this blog (after years of not writing anything on it!) to write about something that caught my attention in a Netflix docuseries called Unsolved Mysteries. As of July 5, 2020, it is the #1 most popular show on Netflix in the US. It’s a crime documentary series which details…