Not as smarmy as Eddie Haskell, or as supercilious as Ferris Bueller

He pioneered DIY data production, and transformed Anthropology.

“We are Northern white crap that talks back.”

Rollins is CEO, “Henry Rollins” is his product, plenitude is the priority.

His study of the cultural practices and mentalité of the poor was transformative.

A Pat-Benatar-loving Linda Blair gone to seed?

He takes onto himself all of our evil urges and failings.

German history, anti-norm­ativity, and structur­alism.

He produced lovely typewriters and radical theories of decentralized power.

He urged everyone to create, to engage, to act.

Where could one find another like him in all the world?

The most influential 20th-century thinker you never heard of.

Edmond Hamilton’s THE POLAR DOOM — a recording.

The softness and grace of the renegade killer.

An enduring love of urban complexity.

His musical schizophrenia can’t be contained.

Are great chess players brilliant thinkers?

“Watch out, you’re only this far from being screwed yourself.”

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