From: steven.laurie
To: timothy c.
Date: May 30, 2006 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Article
Timothy
I read the article about my work or press release. I found it interesting. I
can see what you are getting at but I have no interest in mocking the subject
matter i am dealing with. Also I agree that masculinity or “manliness” is not
entirely a performance.
Thanks [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
A Note from Steven Laurie
31 May 2006 – 12:08 pm
Manliness in today’s paper and elsewhere
27 May 2006 – 6:01 pm
Psychopaths
In today’s Globe and Mail, ‘Focus’ section, there’s an article called ‘The Psychopath in the Corner Office’ about everyday psychopathic people who rise to positions of power. Mostly because the way the business world is, their ruthlessness is rewarded. These types of articles on ‘everyday psychopaths’ pop up every year or so. This stat:
In Prof. [...]
110 years ago
25 May 2006 – 10:05 pm
Monday 25 May 1896
Did not get up till about 10.45 this morning. After breakfast father, Mr. Lay & myself walked to Nordheimer’s hill & back, I had dinner early & left for the Woodbine race at 2 o’clock. Got there shortly after 2.30 sat most of the afternoon in the Press seats in the Grand [...]
Crackpot checklist
9 May 2006 – 8:37 pm
This appeared as a comment to this posting on Metafilter:
My department occasionally receives self-published books from people who think philosophers, of all people, should want to know the TRUTH. As such, I can say with a certainty that no rambling philosophical treatise is compete without mention of:1. Unified Field Theory which combines electromagnetism with sexual [...]
The more things change…
4 May 2006 – 9:22 pm
From The Satyricon of Petronius (60 AD): with highlights:
Meantime I found it no easy task to overcome my thirst for revenge, and spent half the night in anxious debate. In hopes, however, of beguiling my melancholy and forgetting my wrongs, I rose at dawn and visited all the different colonnades, finally entering a picture [...]