And now for something completely different. Your new and improved intellectual x has been reading a lot more. It's either that or listen to my headphones or talk on the mobile phone when I'm on the bus, and since I don't want to feel like an illiterate drooling moron with those other options, I've chosen the former.
I just checked out Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh, and I've already powered about halfway through it. It's a fun book, but in terms of sociology it's pretty light. It's much more of a personal memoir than a treatise on the parallel society of the underclass. However, for middle class suburbanites of any race, this is a window into an alternate universe. A universe where many of our assumptions of human nature, free markets and government are turned upside down, yet the economics beneath the surface are remarkably similar to those of society at large. The book I really need to check out is the same author's Off the Books, which sounds like it may be less character driven, but first I've got to crack open Sam Harris' End of Faith.
3 comments:
Two thoughts:
1 - Racing in the snow looks like fun.
2 - I love the way you changed topics mid-post and didn't put a title on it. It just kinda blends into my lengthy post above, with a barely noticable division between them. We could have a lot of fun with that, making this blog into one long stream-of-consciousness rant.
It'd be fun, but hard to read. Hmm... I could back-date some title-less posts to insert lines of Freebird at the bottom of every existing post on this blog. Nevermind. Forget I said that.
You mean this blog isn't one long stream of consciousness rant?
Crap.
Well, I'm doing my best to recreate my verbal conversational style in order to give everyone the authentic x experience.
...With the added bonus of hyperlinks, music and visual stimuli, of course.
Well, I'm doing my best to recreate my verbal conversational style in order to give everyone the authentic x experience.
Alas, I am not doing the same. If I were to recreate my verbal style here, there'd be a lot more
mumbling
and long
awkward (is that the right word? not really awkward - just
inconvenient. yeah, inconvenient)
where was I?
oh yeah:
Pauses.
Kinda like that.
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