An errant attempt at phase cancellation

Tom Goes to the Mayor, "Bass Fest"

Reaction to being a stepfather

Tom Goes to the Mayor, "Bear Traps"

The Disingenuous Nature of Humility

Tom Goes to the Mayor, "Bear Traps"

Misery Pivot

Jane Fairfax: "I was only going to observe, that though such unfortunate circumstances do sometimes occur both to men and women, I cannot imagine them to be very frequent. A hasty and imprudent attachment may arise - but there is generally time to recover from it afterwords. I would be understood to mean, that it can only be weak, irresolute characters (whose happiness must be always at the mercy of chance), who will suffer an unfortunate acquaintance to be an inconvenience, an oppression forever." - Jane Austen, Emma

Empty-set syllogism

Nothing is better than eternal happiness; a ham sandwich is better than nothing; therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness

Purchased Suffering

"Some of my friends claim that they suffer from the angst of post-industrial man under late capitalism. Now I don't suffer from that. If I did, I would run out and buy a beer." - John Searle

Publishing Fever

"We've reached a peculiar situation in academic life where the requirement that you publish has produced a lot more books then anybody ever needs to read." - John Searle

Réponse à un amour pas retourné par l'ambivalence

Les hommes de Francais ne sont pas tous les waffles.

MICHEL: C'est vraiment louse.
PATRICIA: Qu'est ce qu'il a dit?
VITAL: Il a dit que vous êtes vraiment "une louse".
PATRICIA: Qu'est ce que c'est "louse"?

- Breathless

Interpretation of Lacan's Cigar Win

"I want to speak, but I just can't get it up"

I asked my brother what he thought of Lacan's cigars the other day, not Lacan himself, but just his cigars, and this is what he emailed me back,

"looks like a limp penis sticking out of his mouth for which his unconscious displays his impotence, castration from the Other but in his mouth so a verbal impotence. Lacan said that he would often go into lectures w/o planned speech, this signifying a verbal impotence of sorts. But limp or not its still a phallus and will press ahead despite its impotence"

Amazing. Certain interpretation Win.

Derrida Win!

I know I try everything possible to make this blog not a blog, but I couldn't resist putting up this picture. Amazing!


After all this time, teachers at the Portage Community Education Center are postponing meaning in order to show their students that their mental states are always in a state of flux making a general theory of phenomena unachievable.