Friday, October 2, 2009

A Shot Across the Bow: or, a friendly introduction

Beginnings are difficult.


It's this first post that's kept me from blogging until now. How to set the ton
e properly, to establish purpose and direction, to justify doing this and not writing my thesis as we speak . . .

In short - how do I introduce myself when I know that most of those who will read this will already know me?
Look how meta I am!

At any rate, I am a political philosopher, with a deep and abiding love for Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Giorgio Agamben. I'm finishing my thesis so that I can have my Master's, so that I can go on to a Ph.D. program so that I can get a job to pay off the student loans I need to get my Master's. Also my B.A.

This blog will focus on those aspect of pop culture, current events, the mere facts of living in a world with other people that leave me cross-eyed and ranting. Only now I won't have to just rant at the boy and the roommate, and I won't be limited to the few words Facebook allows you to add to links. Hooray!

Also, my kitties are adorable.
This is Appie - she's an adorable idiot.
This is Alex, he's too smart for his own good. Or, more likely our own good.

4 comments:

  1. You've got a blog now, eh? I'm not sure, but I think conservatives everywhere just felt a simultaneous, unexplained chill of terror.

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  2. it's really the best excuse for gratuitous kittie pics. i think that the secret reason blogs were invented.

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  3. Heh, Alex looks like he just poured through all of those books. Come clean Karen, we know you are just Ghostwriting for Alex hehehe :P

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  4. We all know the cats are trained to hunt conservatives.

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