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Jul. 8th, 2011
Edmund Carpenter 1922-2011
Jul. 8th, 2011 06:04 amAnthropologist who worked with Marshall McLuhan and wrote two excellent books: Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! and They Became What They Beheld.
ETA: I first heard of Carpenter when The Realist created an offensive poster (Kurt Vonnegut explains) and he put it up in his office and started a fuss, which he wrote to The Realist about. I decided I would like any book he wrote, and sure enough, I did.
ETA: I first heard of Carpenter when The Realist created an offensive poster (Kurt Vonnegut explains) and he put it up in his office and started a fuss, which he wrote to The Realist about. I decided I would like any book he wrote, and sure enough, I did.
As Bart Simpson had to write on the blackboard over and over again. That quaint old skill, at which most of us reached our peak at age 8 or so, is being phased out, and there is great indignation among those who don't want the younger generation to escape any of their suffering. (Why, this could lead to using the metric system and depriving the kids of all that wonderful rote learning of feet & pounds & such!) Amanda Marcotte discusses.