May 27th, 2010
Episode 16: Ironic Misogyny
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May 23rd, 2010
Hadron the Collider is playing a show at The Trash Bar. That’s this Thursday! Don’t miss it!
The Trash Bar
www.thetrashbar.com
256 Grand St. between Driggs and Roebling
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11211
Tags: Acoustic, Andrew Toutain, Duo, Hadron the Collider, Jonathan Ramirez, Music, Trash Bar, Williamsburg
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April 28th, 2010
Episode 15: A Peppermint Pattie For Your Clitoris
Tags: Hadron the Collider, Music, NYC
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April 6th, 2010
My wife teaches at a Harlem high school. I’m constantly amazed when she brings home poster boards and overhead projector transparencies that she uses in her lessons to educate high school students. Chalk? Do teachers really still use chalk? Should they be still using chalk? I’m not belittling her profession or the financial limits her industry is restricted by but if we continue to educate our children in this manner we shouldn’t be surprised that we are graduating unprepared young adults into the private sector. We will only ever get what we are willing to pay for.
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Tags: Andrew Toutain, Baruch College, Blog, Education, New Media, NYC DOE, Teachers
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April 4th, 2010
It’s interesting that in only a few short years the “Old Media vs. New Media” debate has already become a tired old trope of web hacks and cable news talk shows. “The newspapers are dying, magazines are disappearing and Web 2.o is killing journalism,” come the cries of the print and television citizenry. The “debate” tends to focus on a perceived contrast between one form of media and the other. It presents a dichotomy that quite frankly, does not exists. There is no Old Media vs. New Media bifurcation. There’s only overlap and adoption, and a sort of Hegelian media dialectic. Who among us only uses New Media and not Old? Hell, even I just had to grab my hardback copy of Roget’s Thesaurus when dictionary.com failed to pull up another word for ‘dichotomy’.
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Tags: Andrew Toutain, Baruch College, Blog, iPad, New Media, New York Times, Old Media, Virginia Heffernan
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April 3rd, 2010
My classmate (and fellow blogger), Laniemoetz recently blogged at live, love, learn, laugh about those ubiquitous “10 Things” lists common to grocery-store magazines such as RedBook and Maxim. She created her own version of the list called, Things Men Don’t Know About Women and challenged her readers to come up with their own. Well, Lainemoetz… you asked for it!
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Tags: Andrew Toutain, Baruch College, Blogs, Hadron Philosophy, Men, Women
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March 23rd, 2010
On March 30, 1953 Einstein announced his revised unified field theory. To celebrate Revised Unified Field Theory Day. Hadron the Collider is playing a show at The Trash Bar. That’s next Tuesday! Don’t miss it!
The Trash Bar
www.thetrashbar.com
256 Grand St. between Driggs and Roebling
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11211
Tags: Andrew Toutain, Greenpoint, Hadron the Collider, Jonathan Ramirez, Rock, Trash Bar, Williamsburg
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March 22nd, 2010
2010 – At times, I feel as though I have an academic advantage over my classmates. Attending college in my mid-thirties, I have 10-15 more years of experience than most other students. I’ve “seen” more, generally speaking. I made more mistakes, almost certainly. I have less tolerance for the bullshit and condensation that comes, at times, from certain jaded adjuncts and associate professors. I tend to be more vocal in class. I volunteer my hand to answer questions more than anyone else and, I’m sure to some degree, I come across as a know-it-all prick. Well, what can I do? What do I have to be afraid of… I paid for these classes, why shouldn’t I squeeze as much as I can out of them?
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Tags: Acting, Andrew Toutain, Baruch College, College, Non Traditional Student, Pittsfield Middle High School, University of the Arts
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March 19th, 2010
Friday March 19th, 8:30am, on a Southbound E train between 34th and 23rd, someone announced over the dying old man of a public address system that it was something something (couldn’t make out what that guy said) Gonzales’ last day on the job. After 30 years of dedicated service to the MTA, he’s retiring. Congratulations Something Gonzales. I half hoped, pictured in my mind, all of us vacant commuters, in every train car, standing and cheering for Something Gonzales. I pictured this joyful, ridiculous, inspirational commercial in my head. Nobody moved. No one reacted. The moment to celebrate was gone. The reading and staring and thinking and music and thinking some more went on uninterrupted. We don’t expect to make out much of what’s said on those subway PAs. We’ve all been frustrated by that garbled trick. And, on the rare occasion that we do understand, our backpacks are subject to search. So, Something Gonzales goes un-thanked by his passengers. Maybe we were all jealous, all on our way to work again, and on such a beautiful upper 60s day. Enjoy your retirement Something Gonzales. Thanks for the ride.
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