- Sometimes in academic life you look around and doubt yourself profoundly
- More often the academy seems the most intellectually moribund place on Earth
- Television and insight are mutually exclusive
- Industrial design makes you feel more wealthy than you actually are
- Make a little birdhouse in your soul
- My blog posts can’t actually be shared on Facebook, despite appearances
- I didn’t realize this until recently
- Anthropology is what sociology ought to have been
- Well, except the silly attachment to fieldwork
- Urban Mother Nature has a similar personality to the urban hipster kids
- The Post Office worked a hundred times better in Chicago
- Roberto Bolano’s 2666 may be the best novel I’ve ever read
