Author: seanv2
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Review: Desai’s Marx’s Revenge
Marx’s Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism Meghnad Desai I’m genuinely surprised I don’t hear this book talked about more. On a macro level, Marx’s Revenge makes the argument that Marx would have welcomed globalization (the left’s boogie man of the day in 2004 when this came out) as the evitable…
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The BQ(Q) – Tom Rushton
Name Tom Rushton Sex: Tom Rushton Age (at the time of first BQ): 36 Height: 5’8” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 157 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Edmonton Marathon 2016 Tell us a little about the race. I had planned to run the Ottawa Marathon (May) to qualify but…
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Review Gonzales’s The Spitboy Rule
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band Michelle Cruz Gonzales Ok, so I know Michelle, the author of this book, and some of the other members of Spitboy, the band at the center of this story. There was a time, a long long while ago, when we were all close.…
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There Are Scenes He Describes That Still Haunt Me — Coogan’s On the Blanket
On the Blanket: The Story of the IRA’s Dirty Protest Tim Pat Coogan If Tim Pat Coogan isn’t the world’s greatest authority on the I.R.A., he’s definitely on the short list. A reporter for years and year with close ties to catholic ghettos of Northern Ireland, he has the sources and knowledge few others can…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Knowledge of Self
Not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy. -Meditation 2:8 Others are unknowable, you know this. It should not sadden you. But not knowing yourself? That’s a problem. Like many of…
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Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning
Too Like The Lightning Ada Palmer Too Like the Lightning is a strange book. At times, it is a difficult book. It is also a very, very good book. A work of science fiction, for sure (we’ve got flying cars, people) it’s also much more than that. It’s an attempt to transport enlightenment ideas about…
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The BQ(Q) Ryan McLaughlin
Name Ryan McLaughlin (@rhinomclaughlin Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 23 Height: 5′ 11″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 155 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Mooses Tooth Marathon Tell us a little about the race. This was a fall marathon in Anchorage, Alaska. It starts downtown…
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Influences on Delany’s Dhalgren
The largest influences on the book that I am aware of, at any rate, were Michel Foucault (primarily Madness and Civilization, secondarily The Order of Things), John Ashbery’s poems The Instruction Manual (and the Richard Howard essay on Ashbery in Alone with America) and These Lacustrine Cities, G. Spencer Brown’s Laws f Form (given me…
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Review: Fitzgerald’s 80/20 Running
80/20 Running: Matt Ftizgerald Fitzgerald is an ace at taking a basic idea about endurance sports and turning it into a useful, if a bit padded book. Racing weight is about, well, weight and racing, and 80/20 is about the very popular (some would say ubiquitous) running methodology of running eight percent of your miles…
Milo and the Calf 