Haven't been here in a while

I see that last time I was bemoaning the lack of AFI in life. I am please to note that as of 4 days ago, that gaping hole in my life has been filled:) The new album is out, I LOVE it and have booked my tickets for the show.


End Transmission is rocking my socks:



Meanwhile, this blog post is rocking my socks: The importance of being stupid

Education should empower us from the inside just as good software should empower us from the outside. It should enable us to handle not only new problems, but new kinds of problems. I want to know, does our education establishment make us clever? Or like badly-designed software does it pose constant pointless obstacles, making us feel stupid, so that we grow up with an ever-increasing resistance to learning? Could we do better than the equivalent of Microsoft Windows for the learning child’s brain? Our way of educating seems calculated to instill the avoidance of feeling stupid, but very little fear of being stupid. Ironically it’s the former that fosters the latter. Because, if you can put up with feeling stupid for just a little while (and it doesn’t take very long at all) you can learn all sorts of stuff and not be stupid. That may be the only important difference between the geek and the person picking up the phone to hit their number on speed-dial.MORE

Looking at the merch and what the hell is up with the three Afropunk posters featuring...only 3 men? Apparently women Afropunks do not exist.

Make/shift Magazine newest issue just came, am looking forward to acquiring the newest Arise Magazine, am impatiently awaiting Filament's next issue, and am thinking of acquiring 1491


Saw Surrogates at he movies. Boris Kudjoe, mmmhmmm. Nice plot.