Archive for July, 2008
what i said.
I have been honored by an invitation to speak at a conference–the Culture Section 20th Anniversary Symposium, to be exact–and so here are my remarks, in case you can’t come but are interested:
I probably need to start by giving you a short explanation of who I am. I am the daughter of a medical [...]
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I may start my Cultural Production and Institutions class with a session on How To Kill The State in Yourself.* Beyond the obvious confusion that will arise, the value of this choice lies in the segue it will provide to both the session on Foucault, The Panopticon and The Death of the Author, and the [...]
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Following on Chris Uggen’s driving confession, I will admit that I am one of those aggressive, fast drivers you love to hate. I am a sensible, civic minded person, but I grew up driving the I-95 corridor and in a city run by the Mob. I am simply not to blame.
None of that matters [...]
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MisMeasure of Man
Signs that I am in the (mid-) South
Absence of sidewalks in both residential and commercial districts.
Preponderance of BMW 325is.
Absence of gas stoves.
Very large lawns for even the smallest bungalows.
Loud tree frogs.
Several enormously large bug/slug/millipede creatures with exoskeletons enacting multi-stage suicide pact in living room.
Front porches referred to as “rocking chair porches.”
McDonalds offers unsweet and sweet [...]
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Don’t fence me in
The title–”10 Codes of Ethics for White People in Hip Hop“–kinda says it all.
Jennifer Calderon, aka “JLove“, signs the post, but I got it from GrandGood, who copped it from Uppity Negro Network.
My two cents: I wish this didn’t exist. not in the “I wish racism were eradicated” way, either. (Of course, I wish [...]
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Continuing the mini-series on this blog concerning Placeless Places, here are the “10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns” according to whomever. None are in the Western U.S.
h/t Kottke
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“Unmasked”
I’m not a particularly naive person. But I insist on holding on to some of my fantasies. One of them was, WAS, that the graffiti artist known as Bankski would not have his “real” identity disclosed. But the day has come, and Time Magazine, as expected, is the harbinger of doom.
Robin [...]
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Crocodile tears
You wouldn’t believe some of the outlandish and totally inappropriate things my drunkenness has caused me to do. Dark, crazy stuff. But guess what? I didn’t write Falconer, so I’m a disgrace to everyone who loves me. It’s discriminatory. Cheever abandons his wife and children for months at a time to drink himself near to [...]
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How to…
make an Hermes bag.
even turning the bag inside out requires particular skill.
please count the number of times they say “craft”, “craftperson”, “craftsman,” etc.
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Hello?
Mike Tyson had a mansion in Ohio. It hasn’t been his for a while, but I guess the dude that bought it from him never really moved in. In any event, I guess you can get in there and take pictures, because here I’ve got a link to pictures from Mike Tyson’s abandoned mansion. I [...]
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