17 January 2012
By StephenTorrence
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Synecdoche: New York punches Stephen and Kevin in the brain, sending them into passionate elucidations on this strange and wonderful world
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4chan, blank slate, brain, Charlie Kaufman, death, deconstruction, Derrida, empiricism, epistemology, evolution, evolutionary psychology, gender feminism, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, history, Inception, Kevin, language, life, love, mathematics, meta, mind, Monty Python, noble savage, numbers, perception, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Platonic ideal, post-modernism, post-structuralism, recursion, Robot 9000, Stephen, Stephen Pinker, Synecdoche, Synecdoche New York, taxonomy, theatre, truth, XKCD
21 August 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Take a moment to picture something that truly, deeply disgusts you; that photo in the lobby of your doctor’s office, rubbing felt the wrong direction, your own face in the mirror every morning… y’know, that sorta stuff. As it turns out, people get disgusted by relatively similar things, at least according to a couple of [...]
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aliens, alternate reality games, Battleship, Boing Boing, death, disease, disgust, dolphins, food, free will, Greek, hagfish, iLoveBees, Julie, Kevin, kosher, language, Liam Neeson, Malaysia, MythBusters, pirates, radio drama, sex, South Korea, Stephen, Taken, World War Z, zombies
21 June 2011
By StephenTorrence
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Picture this. You’re at a swingin’ house party, it’s 1 AM, and you are royally plastered. A witty, well-styled person ambles up and you two have a fantastic conversation. As the person walks away, you realize you have no clue as to the person’s gender or name. In a drunken haze that miraculously still leaves [...]
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America's Got Talent, AOL, beauty, Bible, Boing Boing, Breaking Bad, Chinesh, comics, Community, Dawkins, Dreamsnake, English, fan fiction, feminism, Freewebs, Fringe, Game of Thrones, gender, gender equality, gender neutral pronouns, Geocities, God, grammar, Greek, Hawaii Five-O, iPhone, Kevin, Kiki, language, linguistic, Mad Men, Matt, Netscape, philosophy of language, Prodigy.net, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Sesame Street, Spanish, Star Trek, Stephen, Super 8, Toddlers and Tiaras, Tripod, TV, UPS, Vonda MacIntyre
14 September 2010
By StephenTorrence
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Yep, we’re back. It may be a week late, and these stories are probably completely irrelevant by now, but just pretend we’ve brought you a time machine and taken you back to last week for a look at the news! Yeah, it may be last week’s news, but… TIME MACHINE. Anyways, Kiki joined me for [...]
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3D Realms, Adam Savage, adult content, American Idol, Anderson Cooper, Apple, arcades, Catholicism, CDs, Chuck Norris, communism, Craigslist, Doctor Who, Doom, Double Rainbow, Duke Nukem Forever, ethics, Family Guy, Gearbox, government, graphic design, harm principle, health insurance, healthcare, Hebrew, i09, iOS, iTunes 10, Johnny Carson, Kiki, language, Latin, linguistics, memes, memetics, Michael Moore, MMA, music, music theory, NOVA, Old English, PAX, Penny Arcade, politics, privacy, prostitution, Randy Pitchford, religion, Richard Dawkins, Russia, Seth MacFarland, Sicko, Simon Cowell, Stephen, Steve Jobs, subsidized medicine, TechCrunch, transubstantiation, Yakov Smirnoff
24 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
After another long and completely unnecessary hiatus, we’re back for another rip-roaring episode! Last week Kevin joined me after returning from his whirlwind theatrical tour of the Czech Republic and greater Eastern Europe. This got us talking about language, culture, music and of course Homestar Runner. Have a listen!
This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: [...]
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Android, Apple, architecture, art, blues, children, China, culture, Czech Republic, Disney World, Europe, Folk Alley, folk music, history, Homestar Runner, HTC Incredible, iPad, iPhone, jazz, Katy Perry, Kevin, Kukysevraci, Lady Gaga, language, Pandora, pop, Renaissance, Scotland, Stephen, theatre
