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High today, here: 3. Dewpoint then: 1. High dewpoint: 2.
High today in TO: 5. Dewpoint then: 3. High dewpoint: 4.
Low today on the balcony: 0.7. High: 2.7. Currently: 2.3.
Suddenly there is supposed to be some 30 cm of snow tomorrow. And then cold for the foreseeable future. I wonder if this will indeed come to pass.
For some reason the Wall Street Journal has run a story on Cookie Monster vocals in death metal, and aldaily.com has picked it up. I can't for the life of me see why. I can only imagine that the author's kid got into death metal, and the author went, holy shit, what is this?, found out it had something to do with Cookie Monster, and, being a good journalist, felt impelled to ask the voice of Cookie Monster if he knew anything about this. Which he didn't.
Also courtesy aldaily.com, more of the same old thoughtless poison (and what is aldaily.com good for if not the same old poison of various varieties) from Richard Wolin on Heidegger in the Nation, in an article that's supposed to be about Levinas on the occasion of the centennary of his birth. Wolin is one of those philosophical encyclopedists: someone who encapsulates whole careers and relations between careers in such a way as to plausibly render all the evidence from the outside, but seems not to have the faintest real understanding of what it all means from the inside. (Though, sometimes, the lack of understanding leads to plain contradiction: Heidegger says we should wait for God to save us; Heidegger renounced Christianity and remained an avowed atheist.)
I wish, sometimes, that I could be just a bit more like that. An acute consciousness of the limits of your understanding can be very, well, limiting. (But, you know, I only feel that, especially, today, because I've received two rejection letters in two days.)
High today in TO: 5. Dewpoint then: 3. High dewpoint: 4.
Low today on the balcony: 0.7. High: 2.7. Currently: 2.3.
Suddenly there is supposed to be some 30 cm of snow tomorrow. And then cold for the foreseeable future. I wonder if this will indeed come to pass.
For some reason the Wall Street Journal has run a story on Cookie Monster vocals in death metal, and aldaily.com has picked it up. I can't for the life of me see why. I can only imagine that the author's kid got into death metal, and the author went, holy shit, what is this?, found out it had something to do with Cookie Monster, and, being a good journalist, felt impelled to ask the voice of Cookie Monster if he knew anything about this. Which he didn't.
Also courtesy aldaily.com, more of the same old thoughtless poison (and what is aldaily.com good for if not the same old poison of various varieties) from Richard Wolin on Heidegger in the Nation, in an article that's supposed to be about Levinas on the occasion of the centennary of his birth. Wolin is one of those philosophical encyclopedists: someone who encapsulates whole careers and relations between careers in such a way as to plausibly render all the evidence from the outside, but seems not to have the faintest real understanding of what it all means from the inside. (Though, sometimes, the lack of understanding leads to plain contradiction: Heidegger says we should wait for God to save us; Heidegger renounced Christianity and remained an avowed atheist.)
I wish, sometimes, that I could be just a bit more like that. An acute consciousness of the limits of your understanding can be very, well, limiting. (But, you know, I only feel that, especially, today, because I've received two rejection letters in two days.)
