Reading "A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class", in Sunday's Times. I'm only about two pages in: it's pretty good so far, and seems fairly nuanced.
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03:15:16 PM,
Monday 19 January 2004
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Man, why are people so stupid.
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05:53:30 PM,
Friday 16 January 2004
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Via Memepool: A Christian artist's site full of clean furry art.
I guess it's easy to make fun of furries, but, woah. While none of the art is "erotic", (Christian- and work-friendly) many of the pictures are vapidly sexualized anyway. And totally not wearing clothes. And some are just disturbing.
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12:50:15 PM,
Friday 16 January 2004
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Anyone ever notice how Morning Edition will sometimes have these incredibly dorky and embarrassing audio segments? Today it was "The Political Endorsement Rap Song" and OH MY GOD it was like being eleven years old in the lingerie department and the saleslady loudly interrogating you about your bra size.
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11:53:09 AM,
Friday 16 January 2004
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My brain just melted.
No, for reals.
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07:21:23 PM,
Thursday 15 January 2004
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Strange cravings for chili fries. However can I satisfy them?
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06:38:08 PM,
Thursday 15 January 2004
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Today is a good day I think for buying shoes.
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03:41:08 PM,
Thursday 15 January 2004
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My new filing technique is unstoppable.
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03:40:15 PM,
Thursday 15 January 2004
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Lunching on Dagobah again. Ech.
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02:59:02 PM,
Thursday 15 January 2004
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More suggestions from Dames:
Frilly Dick
Frillita (by Vladimir Frillbokov)
Enstein's Theory of Frillitivity
Frill and Loathing in Las Vegas
by the same author:
Pale Frill
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06:29:00 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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My rad dude just commented here, which reminded me of the altered titles we were just listing. You know of The Great Frillsby (alternatively, The Frilled Gatsby), The Frilled Lizards Karamazov, and For Whom the Bell Frills. But had you considered:
Mansfield Frill
The Frilliad and The Frillyssey
Frillysses (for the modern(ist) reader)
Mrs Frilloway
Romeo and Frilliet
The Scarlet Frill
Moby Frill
by the same author, less well known: Frilloo
Jane Frill (perhaps, Frill Eyre)
Wuthering Frills
Remembrance of Frills Past or a better translation: In Search of Lost Frills
oh my, I could go on.
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05:16:22 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Sometimes I wonder how useful it is to feel like an asshole all the frikkin' time
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04:25:21 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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How long can one talk like Beef I wonder
Probably not for too long
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03:45:36 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Speaking of Achewood, isn't today's strip fabulous? I love how Beef is on all fours in the first panel. I've never seen him like that! It's crazy! Also, doesn't he look kind of like a jockey? He just needs a chin strap for that hat.
This whole storyline has been great, especially since it took an early turn for the noir.
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03:41:07 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Who is a dork?
Me. (I am.)
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03:30:46 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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I love it when the hold music is classical, even though it's invariably "greatest hits of the 18th century".
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01:58:56 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Goth or Not. Via my coworker (who is not).
Hee.
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01:16:15 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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A philosophy radio program hosted by two Stanford professors. Spinoza's Coat (i.e. the philosophy study group I'm in) member "Barce" pointed it out to me.
Which reminds me of the many ways in which the Coat is simultaneously weird and delightful. We all have code names (mine is "Parmenides". Shut. Up.) and applause is liberally granted after the reading of the prior week's notes and at the end of the discussion.
It's pretty awesome.
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12:22:51 PM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Sweet brutal tarlike coffee.
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11:15:11 AM,
Wednesday 14 January 2004
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yoga damage. wtf?
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03:26:33 PM,
Tuesday 13 January 2004
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Last night, in my dream, I found a bowl of eggs in the refrigerator, left there by my roommate.
In real life, I had just thrown out some egg salad that had probably given my real-life roommate (as distinguished from my dream roommate, who I think symbolizes my unconscious) food poisoning, and seen a picture in a catalog of a pot full of hard-boiled eggs. I don't think that undermines the creepy symbolism one whit, however.
Here's hoping they stay cold.
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07:15:29 PM,
Monday 12 January 2004
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JIVE TURKEY!
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07:41:46 PM,
Friday 9 January 2004
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Davey found this on slashdot today: How to Deconstruct Almost Anything. The best bit, I think: "Another minor point, by the way, is that we don't say that we deconstruct the text but that the text deconstructs itself. This way it looks less like we are making things up." Look also for "zen obliqueness." (should it be
"obliquity"? Anyway, it's good.)
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05:06:13 PM,
Friday 9 January 2004
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This morning on the radio I heard a jazz trio (I think) playing "Mother Nature's Son." Frikkin' awesome! (I have been unjustifiably dismissive of Paul McCartney's songs, and this was a fine corrective.)
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11:36:54 AM,
Friday 9 January 2004
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I've been reading a lot of stuff by Joseph Campbell lately. (Right now I'm on the Occidental
Mythology volume of The Masks of God. After this I'm going to work through some Jung before returning to the Campbell and starting the book by Neumann that Kate and Tom gave me. There's a party at my house and all the Jungians are invited!)
I find remarkable the following passage on metaphor in religion. (It's from an essay on this website, which (may require registration and which) appears to be run by a cabal of rabid Campbellites -- and by "rabid" I mean "more into his work than I am.")
A mythology may be understood as an organization of metaphorical figures connotative of states of mind that are not finally of this or that location or historical period, even though the figures themselves seem on their surface to suggest such a concrete localization. The metaphorical languages of both mythology and metaphysics are not denotative of actual worlds or gods, but rather connote levels and entities within the person touched by them. Metaphors only seem to describe the outer world of time and place. Their real universe is the spiritual realm of the inner life. The Kingdom of God is within you._
The problem, as we have noted many times, is that these metaphors, which concern that which cannot in any other way be told, are misread prosaically as referring to tangible facts and historical occurrences. The denotation—that is, the reference in time and space: a particular Virgin Birth, the End of the World—is taken as the message, and the connotation, the rich aura of the metaphor in which its spiritual significance may be detected, is ignored altogether. The result is that we are left with the particular “ethnic” inflection of the metaphor, the historical vesture, rather than the living spiritual core.
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06:00:59 PM, Thursday 8 January 2004
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I <3 the phrase "jive turkey."
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03:18:19 PM,
Thursday 8 January 2004
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For Damian especially, but many who will enjoy it: A review of "Debra" by Beck.
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02:57:21 PM,
Wednesday 7 January 2004
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arrrn.
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02:21:40 PM,
Wednesday 7 January 2004
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Nature's dominoes.
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02:21:40 PM,
Wednesday 7 January 2004
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Arlie Hochschild on why white, blue-collar men support Bush: the article and the interview. (Interview and department links via Ms. Blog, which perhaps I haven't trumpeted enough here. It's awesome! Read it! Christine Cupalaio added like eight posts today!)
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01:45:12 PM,
Wednesday 7 January 2004
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Surely someone in the Blogmass has already linked to Book-A-Minute Classics, but just in case.
The summary of War and Peace is especially good: "History controls everything we do, so there is no point in observing individual actions. Let's examine the individual actions of over 500 characters at great length."
ETA: And there's also the Book-A-Minute SciFi page, where the summary for The Farthest Shore includes the immortal line, "Now I must kill you with my Tao." And the Bedtime Stories page.
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03:25:03 PM,
Tuesday 6 January 2004
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Good omen: At brunch on New Year's Day Joanna and I saw a man wearing a trucker hat. The hat read, "DOSTOEVSKY".
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04:58:24 PM,
Monday 5 January 2004
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Back of my throat tastes like gasoline.
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11:05:59 AM,
Monday 5 January 2004
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Tags I saw for the first time this morning: KHMER, VOTER, and a new phrase from this tagger who just does stickers: SORRY ABOUT ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS.
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11:05:28 AM,
Monday 5 January 2004
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Saturday night involved a dinner party at which bloggers:non-bloggers::4:1. Also a hippie party in Berkeley, replete with "hippie crack", someone playing acoustic guitar, at least one vegetarian, and at least one attendee named after a natural object.
In short, rad.
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12:12:21 PM,
Monday 22 December 2003
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"What part of 'space pirate disco' don't you understand?"
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11:10:20 AM,
Monday 22 December 2003
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