The Story: So Far
So here’s my theory-in-progress (warning: pseudoscience ahead):
When human brain function developed consciousness – and all those things we can do that “lower animals” can’t – what it got was particularly advanced pattern-recognition software. Not only could we perceive patterns in the world, but it could perceive patterns in those patterns, whereby we came to deduce [...]
If You Gotta Go
My electronic perambulations brought me to this, which many of you may have seen before, but others may not: A bit from Graham Chapman’s memorial service, courtesy that beautiful trash-heap, YouTube.
This is a perfect little shot in the arm for the dispirited on a cold night in the Comedy Capital of the World.
Special thanks to [...]
Mama Mia
I would be remiss in my duties as a local theatre ombudsman and third-generation Italian American if I didn’t mention the ridiculous hoopla over a local school’s play, which traffics in goodfella stereotypes. I have to take the opposite view of folks over at Chicagoist: lighten the hell up. It’s far more damaging, in my [...]
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