January 2009
46 posts
The Cultural Turn
I am remaking myself from “technophobe” to “Neo-Luddite.”
“Widely believed to harbor corrupt ambitions, impeached, and accused of...”
– Stephen Burt | “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” | Poetry Foundation (via opalandtheidiot) (via douglaswolk)
“Zombie Shark” - geneva jacuzzi
“Praise song for struggle; praise song for the day. Praise song for every...”
– The inaugural poem was fantastic; just right.
Barack Obama’s Inaugural poem ‘Praise Song For The Day’ Full Text | NowPublic News Coverage (via curate)
Inauguration Special with Alice Waters →
(via thegurglingcod)
I hope Ms. Waters will be demonstrating for our next Prez how to properly eat a shoe, as she has been wont to do.
Martin Heidegger at Eighty →
Hanna Arendt on Martin Heiddeger, long before their youthful affair was public knowledge. Still, an eloquent — and rightfully critical — tribute.
“There was hardly more than a name, but the name traveled all over Germany like the rumor of the hidden king…The rumor about Heidegger put it quite simply: Thinking has come to life again; the cultural treasures of the past,...
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Hagiographies
fdelacruz:
I have been asked to post “facts” about myself.
* My family lived in a small town in Appalachian coal mining East Tennessee for most of my formative years;
* I came of age when allegories of immigrant success revolved heavily around the Scripp’s National Spelling Bee — I recall that a Disney-made documentary about a Vietnamese boat person winning said spelling...
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'Splanashun
As my “live-blogging”* this far of my unexpected detour might have suggested. I am indeed in the hospital. I am sick with something somewhat unusual, likely picked up during the course of “exotic travel.” From
now on it’s nothing but the Ramada in Cabo.
Can’t walk, can’t laugh — laughing might as well be
plunging rusty blade into my diaphragm....
Crown Royal
I feed my cat nuthin’ but shrimp and white wine. alexanderbasek:
Katie’s post reminds me of my all-time favorite Royal Family story. In 1999, one of the Queen’s footmen was demoted after it was discovered that he was feeding her beloved corgis whiskey and gin:
Mr King would only make the dogs tipsy when the Queen was away, to entertain other staff members at Buckingham Palace.
He was...
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Stock Exchange - miss kittin & the hacker
DOC FILMS: Brakhage Mondays →
It’s either going to be empty in there, or I will make new friends in the first quarter of 2009.
Bush is a Book Lover
Now Rove’s credibility is shot.
“In the 35 years I’ve known George W. Bush, he’s always had a book nearby.”
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Hacker, basically
I just did something I consider very advanced on my computer. In general, I am scared of computers and technology. It’s so…the future. And confounding.
My browser has been loading very, very slowly. I use Firefox on a Mac, so I googled it and found opendns.com.
I’m not so sure what it is, but if you add
208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
to your list of DNS servers, your pages...
Anagrams of my name
“Hash Nite Inn”
“Inane Shh Nit”
Topical Anagram
solanaceae:
TRIPP EASTON MITCHELL JOHNSTON
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NTH PALIN METH PROJECTION’S LOST
Family Fodder = “Cold Wars”
All The News That Is Fit To Print
But. But. Yesterday they resolved the question for me of whether miniature horses ride in first or coach class when they fly. In the article, the brave editors broke new ground by addressing one of the most pressing and relevant moral questions of our time: should chimpanzees and dogs but not macaques be allowed in the buffet line? If so, are we not practicing species discrimination?
We also now...