The Denial File
What We Can't Think About—and Why
The Psychic Bartender: Face to Face Book
Kirby Farrell | June 30, 2011
It’s deadly quiet in the bar. Where are the customers? Isn’t anybody thirsty? Ah, right. They’re home “doing” Facebook. You can see why Facebook is …
Rich Irrelevancies and Contradictions
Bruce Floyd | June 20, 2011
And so, for Kierkegaard, the ‘”good” is the opening toward new possibility and choice, the ability to face the anxiety; the closed is the evil, …
The Psychic Bartender
Kirby Farrell | June 17, 2011
Problem # 31 — sexual intoxication A Congressman comes into the bar, drops his pants, and shows everybody: 1. a cellphone photograph of his majority …
A Call for Songs
Bill Bornschein | June 13, 2011
A call for papers is a standard way of generating interest and scholarship for a given academic subject. With this post I’d like to suggest …
And when did you stop beating your wife…?
Daniel Liechty | June 6, 2011
Well, May 21st came and went, without occurrence of The Rapture, as famously predicted by Harold Camping. As rumor has it, Camping has reset …
The Psychic Bartender
Kirby Farrell | June 3, 2011
You know the problem. Between swallows, the voice at the bar hammers you with a life story you’ve heard a million times. “I’m a success, …