“…another person’s pain, a man’s physical prowess and prospects coming up hard against a padded, but no less cement, wall.”

Nearly 3 years since I originally wrote it, my rambling essay On the DL: Power, Politics and Sport has gone public in Habits of Waste: a Quarterly Review of Pop Culture, an 0n-line cultural crit journal on the brink of becoming a blog. Read it to discover what Ken Griffey, Jr., the Nazis, Theodor Adorno, the Superbowl, the Zapatistas, George W. Bush, and Michel Foucault all have in common - the answers may (or may not) surprise you! Great thanks to HoW co-editor Jeff Purdue for providing me with the outlet.

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Nearly two months since I’ve lasted posted something here, though I’ve posted several reviews and an interview elsewhere. What I feel I’m lacking here is that magic that gives all blogs their individual character - their blog-a-rhythms - an animating spirit that carries itself through each and every post. So two little posts on two small blogs have significance for me - Tram talking quality control, Scott calling it quits - asking, what is it all for, this blogging? For me, answers are still forthcoming.