An email address to my entire office email list:
Dear friends,
Now, I can understand the difficulty with peeing INTO the toilet 100% of the time. I “get” that sometimes you’re running late and need to almost run me over in the parking lot. And I’ve come to terms with the fact that yelling a 20 minute [...]

THE MAN
The compulsive media coverage of Mr. Jackson’s death has been amazing. As one video blogger stated, “You can’t turn on an electronic device without hearing about Jackson in a few seconds.” This has been my experience as well, but also beyond my electronic devices. I hear people talking about it on the street, in [...]

CONTENT ADVISORY – NOT FOR THE EASILY OFFENDED
Many times in life we have these instances where we see something or hear something about ourselves and think, “When in the world did I do that?”
For some this is a small bruise after a night of drinking, for others it is reading a brilliant thesis from early [...]

An old friend recently messaged me with a simple question. It was probably for her research, as she is working in grad school right now.
Here is the question and my response, for your records.
AH:
How do you identify? Heterosexual, Bisexual, No Identity, etc…?
MK:
I don’t identify. Two reasons.
1 – Heterosexual is perceived “normal” function, so I’m pretty [...]

Link: http://maxisnow.com/cubanisimo-vineyard/
Beautiful weekend of wine, food, and friends.
If there were a button to activate how I felt this weekend, I would push it until I was dead.
The photos speak louder than my pithy voice.

And working my ass off.
Hurricanes effect everyone. Even people who work on the web.
I’m on call from 12am-6am tonight.
Call if you want to chat about philosophy in the wee hours of the night.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Illusion-End-Jean-Baudrillard/dp/0804725012
Read it. It will blow your fucking mind.

Show me a place where art is not bought and sold. I will show you a place where art does not exist.

Mr Buddha-beads,
I can honestly say there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish I were in a graduate program or teaching or just on the streets doing philosophy. And just for the record, I think our boundaries of creativity are the same. I’ve just never had the sense to obey mine, though, [...]

How does one say “I’m feeling suicidal”? Is it always a cry for help? I don’t want any help. What could anyone else do? Anesthetize it? What about when it’s not a cry for help, but a simple conclusion. Is there something wrong with feeling meaningless?
I’m eating funions and drinking a coke. Yea, I feel [...]

//the poet//
Time is a funny, fickle thing. In time all things are possible, they say. This much would seem true. The world comes together in perfect resonance and harmony. All things ring with beauty and passion. Love falls from the sky on to our heads. Peace finds home in the hearts of deep slumbers. All [...]

It was not my intention to make this entry, but I feel this incredible weight on my person. I am tired I think. A tired dreamer. A tired Tristan. A tired Quixuote.
Not tired of dreaming itself, just tired of having dreamed. Exhausted from living in the wake of my own aspiration.
“I want to be a [...]

A while back I wrote this paper on Othello. It wasn’t bad for my skills at the time. I wrote it for a World Lit class at the Junior College I started my academic career at. Although most of my classes were boring at best, this class was overseen by one of the four professors [...]

A note on Britney Spears.
Does anyone else find it odd that one who adored for her body has committed acts against her body? That one, who since her late teens, has been gawked at, gazed upon, honored for her looks is trying to destroy them. The tattoos, the shaving, and the piece de resistance, piercing [...]

Being as how this is the post-modern, possibly post-humanist era, and things tend to get nicely redundant, I thought I could make my big “come-back” blog about another blog. And to cut through the crap, cause it’s getting late now anyway, it’s a blog about a blog about an American Idol Contestant’s “risque” photos.
I don’t [...]

I love dancing. Most of my friends are aware of my foot-moving passions, as it’s not on rare occasion that they will find me lunging my hips and pivoting my toes to the tunes of the “hardest working man in show business.” And for those of you who haven’t seen my mad-style and moves that [...]

Back into the grind….here we go.
I have meditated more on this notion of imagination in the frameworks of abstraction and what they call “possible worlds.” MAny conceed that we cannot exit our experience (or perspective) in this realm of reality. But then they go on to press that we can occupy some other form of [...]

And this is the instance where youth is transformed into hopeful maturity.
I think I owe it to myself and any transient readers to explain something.
And I’m going to try and explain this without getting all metablog or metamax on myself.
The Synthetical Self
More than one person has commented on the extremes at which my writing operates [...]

The myth of the CPU: What’s so central about process?
This morning is reading and reflecting on Foucault’s Theatricum Philosophicum a few things crossed my mind that then led to some other thoughts, which then of course eventually brought me in front of my computer screen again. Oddly, a few of Foucault’s words struck me in [...]

Recently I have been considering the theories, ideas, and some writings that surround Artificial Intelligence and the replication of human-like consciousness outside of an actual human instantiation. Of course, when I say “Artificial Intelligence,” I’m not talking about some solid monolith of theory, or of even defining the word itself. In some schools of thought [...]

The Spiritual Disposition….or even PREdisposition….
Anxiety has no friends. Except maybe one. God. Allah. The Divine. Buddha maybe.
The illumination I receive in reflection of my own affliction is always striking and sometimes even awe-inspiring. Today, on the way to coffee, I started a moment of reflection on my past half-dozen years. I went from a church-going [...]

why i am dropping out.
i have talked a lot of shit the past few years. every other week i talk about dropping out of school. i talk about the meaninglessness of my education as part of the institution, and i swear up and down that i dont need it.
well, god provides.
my anxiety has worsened to [...]

A letter to Eric:
Manifesto is right.
First, here is part of an email that I just sent to Amy this morning:
“I’ve got a lot of mixed feeling about the symposium, but I’ll sort it out
eventually. I think it’s funny that the more exposure I get to professional
[...]

today was a long day. from kant to correa to “better explanation theory” to prinz to tears to dispair to truth. to truth? to truth. it came like the cold-sweat in the breaking of a horrible flu. what was the it? illumination. illumination of what is real, of what is true, and why it does [...]

“It must be simply this; the scope of the will is wider than that of the intellect; but instead of restricting it within the same limits, I extend its use to matters which I do not understand. Since the will is indifferent in such cases, it easily turns aside from what is true and good, [...]

john locke and his little theories of man. what are we in nature mr locke? neither free nor equal.
nothingness got to me again last night. i gazed at the stars, only to be reminded of my universally insignificant extent and impact of existence. people die every second of every day. every second. now. now. now. [...]