Category: experiments

• The Katy Perry Problem

  Having loved myself a little Jill Sobule back in the 90s, after homosexuality was titillating but before it was decriminalized in several states, I was a little miffed when Katy Perry (née Katy Hudson, former-next-superstar-of-Contemporary-Christian-Rock) appeared on the scene with her thumping, Benataresque tribute to lesbian tourism “I Kissed a Girl.” I found the video […]

  Charles

  November 6, 2008

  albums, experiments, gay culture, homosexuality, music

• The Reluctant but Joyful Quantum Physicist

  I have realized over the past week that I am a quantum physicist at heart, not a poet. My heart is not a poet. I was reading more in the Buffy book about quantum physics, and I saw myself there when it said [paraphrased]: A particle’s behavior changes simply by virtue of being observed or […]

  Charles

  May 10, 2007

  experiments, quantum physics, the world