iPod. Acronym: Intellectual Pretender Orating Derivatives.

A person, often a student, who has not developed any unique intellectualisms but will bombastically offer plagiarised arguments and opinions, or repeat verbatim any number of literary quotes or philosophies without any real understanding of them.

Much like the actual iPod media device, which plays back music or video that has been stored on it, but does not create new media by itself, an iPod in the human sense, stores information, but does not have the propensity for the creation of unique intellectual opinion. Could also be described as a Faux-losopher. (continue reading…)

Six years ago today I came to Memphis for the first time. It was warm and humid in contrast to the stark cold of British March, and immediately upon landing, collecting my bags, and barely assembling myself after the flight, I was gathered up in a battered early 90s Toyota Camry, handed a swiftly opened Corona, and driven into the sunset heading west into Arkansas. A vast bleeding melting sunset toward which every road appeared to lead, and for which the bridge crossing the Mississippi River seemed designed solely to make a spectacle of. There was no stereo in the car, it had been stolen at some earlier misadventure, but if there was to have been, it would no doubt have been playing Thin Lizzy, or REO Speedwagon, something of that nature. (continue reading…)

Hello! After years and years and years of putting it off, here is the new rorydale.com. It’s very basic for now, and I will put more stuff on it, so if you care, keep an eye on it.

Be seeing you,

Rory