24 January 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast, Weekly Why
Local poet Marc Powell joins Stephen for some high-frequency riffing on world systems, philosophy …and each other
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activism, Adam Smith, addiction, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anarcho-Syndicalism, art, Austin, Beehive Collective, beer, bees, Capital Factory, capitalism, cartoons, celebrity, communication, conservative fusionism, culture, David Holmgren, death, EFF-Austin, environmentalism, Facebook, FarmVille, flooding, food, gentrification, Heidegger, hubris, humility, Iain McGilchrist, IMF, intellectualism, Ivan Illich, John Michael Greer, Jon Lebkowsky, language, Marc Powell, Masanobu Fukuoka, meta, mythology, Neal Postman, Neil Degrasse-Tyson, permaculture, poetry, politics, privilege, progress, reality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roland Barthes, San Francisco, science, Silicon Valley, Socrates, somatic experience, Stephen, stereo, Taoism, technology, The Holy Mountain, The Internet, The Peripheral, The Singularity, Tony Robbins, TV, Wendell Berry, William Gibson, World Bank
28 February 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Canadian dramedy Slings and Arrows has made quite an impression on Stephen. In this episode he breaks it down with the help of theatre guru Kevin Saunders.
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Academy Awards, Aristotle, Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Community, death, E.T., flowers, Hamlet, Heroes, heterosexuality, homosexuality, irony, James Kakalios, Joss Whedon, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin, life, love, MacBeth, modernism, Much Ado About Nothing, Oscars, Pandora, post-modernism, post-structuralism, Rifftrax, Robert Wilson, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Slings and Arrows, Stephen, structuralism, Synecdoche New York, The Physics of Superheroes, theatre, Tony Awards, Top Gun, TV Tropes, West Side Story, Wikipedia
17 January 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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
02 September 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin, Kiki, and Stephen go totally random, rabbit-trailing off wacky phrases in the final double-digit BF.
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Abercrombie & Fitch, Bruce Willis, Cake, Cars, Christina Ricci, Clint Eastwood, Colt Jackson, consciousness, death, Dethklok, Dexter, Disney, education, Foursquare, heaven, Internet regulation, Islam, Jason Statham, Jersey Shore, Jet Li, Kenny vs. Spenny, Kevin, Kiki, Kurt Vonnegut, Las Vegas, Law and Order, Lolita, Lucha Libre, Miss Piggy, Mole Day, Monkey Shines, moving, Nacho Libre, Now And Then, Of Montreal, Owen Wilson, Patrón, Pi Day, porn, random phrase, repo men, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Slaughterhouse 5, Star Trek, steampunk, Stephen, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, Texas Tech University, The Beatles, The Crash Test Dummies, The Enforcer, The Jonas Brothers, The Killers, The Sex Pistols, The Who, The Wire, Tiny Tower, Torchwood, Ty Pennington, vampires, Windham Hill, Woot!, World War II
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
