tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-245168 2008-08-04T17:00:18-07:00 mea caligine tutus TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-53755892 2008-08-04T17:00:18-07:00 2008-08-04T17:00:18-07:00

Since I no longer have need for anonymity, I am closing shop here at Meta and renewing my blog Strange Doctrines. Blogging will continue there, mostly as usual. Of course, be sure to update your bookmarks, blog rolls, aggregators, etc.,...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/08/meta-is-transmigratin.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-53020204 2008-07-21T10:47:47-07:00 2008-07-21T10:47:47-07:00

Guy sees a girl he likes the looks of, approaches her and says, "Hey, wanna f***?" And she says, "MMmmm! Your place or mine?" And he says, "Hey -- if it's gonna be a hassle, forget it!" (Roughly as told...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/07/the-convenience-society.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52882844 2008-07-18T11:10:58-07:00 2008-07-18T11:10:58-07:00

A morality Mn is a dynamic decision tree intended reliably to lead to the flourishing of an organism On (where On denotes an individual or a type). There. Now that that's settled...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/07/morality-defined.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52824188 2008-07-17T08:41:32-07:00 2008-07-17T08:41:32-07:00

I agree that P.Z. Myers' hijinks with a communion wafer is pointlessly rude. But if doing violence to an arbitrarily sanctified cracker were at all relevantly similar to doing violence to a human corpse, we'd probably want to forbid eating...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/07/crackers.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52730106 2008-07-15T09:38:15-07:00 2008-07-15T09:38:15-07:00

My wife and I went to see Bizet's "Carmen" at the Hollywood Bowl Sunday night. In general, everything sounded as good as orchestral music amplified in the outdoors can sound. The lead Denyce Graves, however, was bad. Truly bad. Weirdly...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/07/ma-foi-je-ne-sais-pas.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51983998 2008-06-27T19:57:13-07:00 2008-06-27T19:57:13-07:00

It's pretty common that I'll be playing a gig and someone will approach me and say how hearing me play makes them wish they had time to practice. But, you know, work and all that. Funny thing is, I'm a...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/06/dissipation.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51796390 2008-06-24T09:54:25-07:00 2008-06-24T09:54:25-07:00

"The wrathful and reverent attitudes characteristic of youth do not seem to permit themselves any rest until they have forged men and things in such a way that these attitudes may be vented on them--after all, youth in itself has...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/06/growing-up.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51636100 2008-06-20T07:45:34-07:00 2008-06-20T07:45:34-07:00

This is totally plausible.

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/06/sarcastic-pathway.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51535606 2008-06-18T14:10:52-07:00 2008-06-18T14:10:52-07:00

Funny.

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/06/fight-the-smears.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50944110 2008-06-06T16:08:34-07:00 2008-06-06T16:08:34-07:00

If the pundits did play-by-play on Game 1 of Lakers v. Celtics 2008: [Some time in the 3rd quarter...] Chadwick Maltin:...and we're back. Lakers leading the Celtics here in the 3rd quarter. It's really not looking too good for the...

Michael Drake http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2008/06/the-pundits-play-by-play-on-game-1-for-lakers-v-celtics-2008.html