Posts by Ryan Livingston
I’m Mildly Insightful… What Do You Do?
There is a term in communication theory known as phatic communication, coined by Roman Jakobson (and I only mention his name because it looks good in search engines). Basically this is any word or phrase meant to initiate communication or keep channels open. Less academically speaking, any pointless speech to get the ball rolling. Simply…
Read MoreFortnight Tonight – 09-07-2006
Steve Irwin, kamikaze squirrels, kamikaze lunar craft, and tea in spaaaace. Plus an urge to go vote (intelligently).
Read MoreR.I.P. Ray Macula
The official place for the memorial page is here now. -7/24/06 I just found out that my best friend is dead. I hadn’t heard anything from him in over a month. Normally that wouldn’t have seemed odd since he moved to the middle of Wyoming. However, lately he’d been on instant messenger talking a blue…
Read MoreFortnight Tonight – 06-08-2006
Ep5. Meds, Barry Bonds, Enron and the DaVinci Code (sort of).
Read MoreFortnight Tonight – 05-16-2006
Ep.4 – Star Wars, Wii, Finnish Flash and Brit Spears
Read MoreOzzy Under Cover
It’s really hard to remember that Ozzy Osbourne has been doing music for close to 40 years. Yet, it’s never surprising when an Ozzy tribute album crops up. What is surprising is when it’s Ozzy doing the tribute album – to his contemporaries. Not his modern contemporaries, but his legendary contemporaries, like the Beatles. Thats’…
Read MoreHow Money Loses Its Fools
or Extended Tales of Poor Customer Service or or This is the Last One of These, I Swear On walking towards the store one Saturday morn I noticed, on the corner across from my store, a tattered man with equally tattered clothing. Besides him stood an eight foot tall picket sign. As the signs on…
Read MoreCombating the Hordes
or Further Tales of Poor Customer Service or or Which is worse: The Deal Hunters or Deal Makers? The Deal Hunters: At work I wear tan pants, a navy blue shirt and a radio on my belt with a speaker welded to my ear. I carry around a large black plastic label gun and what…
Read MoreTales of Poor Customer Service
…or How Logic Confounds the Common Consumer Some time ago I announced I was employed. And, for the past year, I have learned a new skill – holding my tongue. I had to hold my tongue about the buying public, and I had to hold my tongue about my corporate overlords. Well, a year to…
Read MorePublic Domain Theater – Art in Kansas City
In the first episode of Public Domain Theater, we’ll be listening to Art in Kansas City, written by Stephen Crane between 1897 and 1900. Crane is better known for the Red Badge of Courage.
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