I was looking thru my logs and I found that a paper I wrote in University was cited in the Cardoza Law Review. One word, but still. The paper is called ‘Fuck’ and it’s by Christopher M. Fairman, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Ohio State University. The (unpublished paper of mine he cited was) ‘Fuck Linguistics’ written for my SocioLinguistics class in 2003.

I studied Cognitive Science in University and took some classes at the Montreal Neurological Institute. One brain we studied in great detail was this dude HM, who couldn’t form new memories. He died today. Peace the spork out HM. They removed areas of his brain near the hippocampus, where memories get consolidated, and he simply lost his RAM, effectively. Hard disk was OK, but everything new got wiped. As in, we heard stories about the Doctor walking in, introducing himself, walking out. Comes back in later and HM is like ‘Hi, who are you?’. Made it entirely impossible for him to live a normal life, but led to huge breakthroughs in neuroscience. Again, peace the spork out HM. In exams full of obscure Latin anatomy you were the only dude I knew.

I used to always ask what the point of school was. Like, what does a report on killer whales have to do with anything? Or dressing up as the Founding Fathers. For the latter I drew names and got Benedict Arnold. Rather disturbing for the only brown kid, now that I think about it. In college I took some Ed Psych, but never got a satisfactory answer. I didn’t think that the ‘real world’ involved so many papers, like, how does anyone get paid for that? I always thought ‘work’ involved more heavy lifting. I literally thought that you’d need to move things around. Turns out its the same old shit. Insomuch as I have a job, I write papers, do presentations, work in groups, and get the same vomitous crunch at the end of the month – just like exam time. There’s less reading, but as far as I can tell, the working world is exactly like school.

The wheel and the cross are similar metaphors. The cross represents our sins while the wheel represents karma. The ideas here was to depict Christ crucified on the wheel. This image is a sort of Tibetan Thangka, depicting the wheel-of-life, with a Dali Christ crucified on it. In the east the Buddha broke the wheel, and in the west, Christ did. These ideas intersect in the swastika, which is a cross and wheel at the same time.

I thought I had lost this document forever, but thanks to Google Desktop, I finally found it again. It’s a paper I wrote on the historical context of Copyright, specifically how copyright is not some moral law. Copyright didn’t exist until 1710, and it didn’t exist for a reason. In oral culture the medium was community memory – if you didn’t share media it disappeared. My argument is that the web as a medium is closer to oral culture than print, but that’s another paper. This one is purely history.

Today I did was the graphic above, as a cover for the Radix Magazine in Montreal. It’s run by McGill Chaplaincy. The samples are myoglobin and some molecule I-don’t know-what-it-is. The symbols are from a T-Shirt Company. The theme was back-to-basics, where people from various religions describe the basics of their faith.

1. Just Price Make money from labor, Not money from interest, You immoral fucks – St. Thomas Aquinas This was before banking And Mastercard. When money came alive And ate your babies re: Salamanca School 2. Natural Law Rights exist in nature, Only to be claimed by the Bill of. Rights exist in nature, Only [...]

I was having dinner with Shannon, who comes from a good Republican family. She said it isn’t fair that a small percentage of people pay the majority of taxes. I chewed my snapper and poked at the spinach. I couldn’t think of an answer. I believe it’s right, but why? 5% of Americans do pay [...]

This cover is composed of samples. The foreground is Bouguereau’s ‘Madonna & Child with St. John the Baptist’. The background is a photo of the Circumcision Room from the Ottoman Topkapi, in Istanbul. The Star of David on the wall reminds me that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are all Sons of Abraham. Brothers.