Monday, October 11, 2010

Links to some of my favorite things internet from the last week or so.

Religion Quiz

I'll let you know how this works

Maybe my favorite author

Definitely my favorite author whom I have not yet read enough first hand

bow to the Onion

the MacCarthur Foundation validates my opinion

Randomness matters, a lot

Woo Hoo!

My first blog.

"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice," is a quotation attributed to Nietzsche. It seems to be a line from Beyond Good and Evil but the only copy I have translates the line differently, and less well.

This won't be a self-serious blog but it will be critical of things I find in culture, the media, political attitudes and the books I (mostly) randomly pick up along the way. I try to keep a critical eye on all things. I prefer questions to answers, the complicated to the simple and the counter-intuitive to the widely accepted. I delight, especially, in questioning views on the "sacred cows" people hold dear, but my scrutiny of such things comes from a good-natured search for meaning and values, with no malicious intent. So, that's how I landed on the name for the blog.

There will also be (I imagine) a lot of humor, so I think the name of the blog sort of points to that too.
I'm not sure how dedicated I will be to this blog yet. Hopefully, I'll have a lot to say. Be ready for a lot of links to the Onion, AVClub, MarginalRevolution, Metacritic and other sites and blogs I follow through Google Reader. Also, I'll probably focus some on issues and goings-on in Kansas City, but not so much that you wouldn't be interested in following this blog if you've no interest in our cowtown.

I thinking my writing is rusty. Thanks.