Archive for September, 2007
Burma
Yesterday, the Burmese dictatorship sent troops to the streets to harass, arrest, and murder its own citizens, because they seek a humane and representative government.
If you’re just catching up and want your news to a sound track, here’s a video montage of the attacks, which closes with the photographic evidence that Japanese citizen and APF [...]
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Ahmadinejad and other bad men
It bears repeating: one of the good things about being at a place like Columbia is that sometimes you end up in the middle of history. Yesterday, my feeble paper alumna library card gave me access to the Ahmadinejad talk. Don’t get it twisted: I wasn’t inside the lecture hall, but I was inside the [...]
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Feathercore
Sasha directed me and I discovered feathercore–heavy metal from Florida with a parrot as the lead singer. Watch out for the beak of putrefaction.
If you liken to that song (“Beak of Putrefaction”) you’ll have a very clear impression of the sound inside my head while reading some of the responses to Gabriel’s post over [...]
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Today’s mystery
In my attempt to avoid super-sucka-dom, I’m paying close attention to how New Yorkers do things. After all, they’ve been there, and I was there so long ago that things and how we do them may have changed. In my attentive study of homo sapien newyorkus, and specifically newyorkus columbianus, I notice how [...]
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Rgh.
I don’t think I can adequately describe the frustration I feel sitting here, forcing out a paragraph of writing, only to glance to my right and see Vol 8 (of 15) of John Dewey’s The Middle Works, 1915. Can it be true that he wrote 300 pages just in that one year? Now [...]
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thank you to sasha, wherever you are.
and also in the theme of gratitude:
I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to having creative, smart, challenging students. Hunter was certainly one of those, even before she started to flatter me.
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Little earthquakes: Pitchfork gives music a 6.8. And how right they are to single out “Peg” and throatsinging. Btw, if you watched America’s Got Talent, you know that academic who hybridized throat singing, Gregorian chants and pop was on to something great…those damn judges don’t know genius when they see it!
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Day of Service
I encourage you to make today a day when you spend some time outside of yourself, your daily chores and routines, and away from the people and things that most often benefit from your presence. I have in mind that you might volunteer your time or services, that you strive to be especially compassionate, understanding, [...]
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