A Simple Thought

アメリカの車はふねがみたいです。 This saying was a favorite of one of my professor’s.

Something I Heard

Postmodernism is when French philosophers in the 1970′s realized that they were irrelevant.

A Book Review

I saw a review today of a book called Globish at The New Republic. I rather enjoyed reading it, though I had never heard of the book before, and still have no intention of reading it. The review itself can be found here. Particularly of interest to me was a short snippet about language influencing [...]

A TED Speech from the current Prime Minister

If that doesn’t work, here is another link to it.

Weirdness (100th Post)

Today, I came to the conclusion that I would very much like to include the variant of the following television monologue in a presentation of mine on Runes. “Der Weltraum, unendlichen Weiten. Wir befinden uns in einer fernen Zukunft. Dies sind die Abenteuer des neuen Raumschiff Enterprise, das viele Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt unterwegs [...]

Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Here is a list of answers to the age old joke. They were given to me at a lecture a few weeks ago by an esteemed Canadian professor, and I found them quite amusing. I have listed them below. Enjoy.

A Small Blurb on Japanese

This was a minor exercise undertaken for German class. Enjoy.

Freudian Slip

This evening, while typing a paper, I committed a minor Freudian slip. What I meant to type was psychopathic. What came out was “psychopathetic.” Mr. Sigmund Freud would doubtless have argued that this betrayed my true mindset to psychopaths around the world. Normally, I would disagree, but in this case, I find the thought humorous [...]

Sigmund Freud

Recently, I have become somewhat acquainted with Sigmund Freud’s work, having read Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis and The Future of Illusion. I have come to the conclusion, from the limited amount that I have read, that his influential works are worth little more than bilge. And while I know that this it is exceptionally poor [...]

Rashomon

I had to type a brief reaction to the famous Japanese film Rashomon, which I saw for the first time on Monday. I wrote the following, rather undisciplined draft for that requirement. Truth be told, it probably shouldn’t be written about unless one has seen the movie multiple times.