January 2011
9 posts
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and...
– SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words (via radicallyhottoff)
I have been informed that Crime and Punishment is...
When will death come?
Denver School of the Arts: Elite or elitist? →
Tangentially related: here’s an old story about the weird relationship between my high school and the rest of the (shitty, shitty, shitty) school district, from the year I was a senior. You would not believe the outcry this story provoked, or the volume of hand-wringing about how admissions have to be strictly talent-based because otherwise the delicate flowers will all wither. The poor...
A coherent and philosophically sound theory of...
This is embarrassing but maybe the one thing in my life that has shaped me most was that I attended an arts high school. I studied creative writing (please feel free to laugh). I thought for a long time, after high school, that I missed being surrounded by talented people, but probably we weren’t—with the exception of a few really remarkable people—particularly talented so much...