Genii

23Sep08

I heart the MacArthur Foundation, not because I know virtually anything about it, solely because they offer annual $500,000 “genius” grants to exceptional individuals in many fields.  This year’s Fellows have been announced, and among them you’ll find doctors, geologists, infectious disease specialists, a violinist and a sweetgrass basket maker.  My favorite, for obvious reasons, [...]

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Got a case of the Mondays?

22Sep08

There is something about this video that resonates, although I can’t put my finger on what exactly that is…
h/t Jessica.

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They are of a type.

22Sep08

A collection of “50 Amazing Gig Posters Sure to Inspire.” A form of artistic expression I have really come to appreciate since moving to Nashville, home of Hatch Show Print.

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Quixotic

22Sep08

If you were the owner of the (dilapidated, presumably uninhabited) building in New Orleans, or just a neighbor, why would you cover over the Bansky on teh side? It isn’t prettier when covered in red.  Not less of an eyesore.  MORE of one, now.  And not valuable.  Teh owner, or teh neighbor, could have [...]

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Me and a velociraptor.

19Sep08

I could survive for 60 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

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I think I prefer the younger version…

19Sep08

Once there was a little boy named Oliver Stone. And this little boy decided to grow up one day and make a totally creepy trailer to advertise his new film, a biopic of George W. Bush.

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You can’t do that, here.

17Sep08

The second “practica” in my Introduction to Sociology class is the classic ethnomethodological experiment, where students are asked to violate a norm in at least three contexts (selected with an eye to their hypothesis about the nature of the norm) and report the results.  Of course, I prohibit them from violations of law or campus [...]

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Wise on ‘08

17Sep08

This is your nation on White privilege.

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todays cuban linx

16Sep08

I think subversive crossstich was made, just for me.

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Best Title of 2000

16Sep08

Additionally, I recommend to your attention a longish-yet-worthit profile of the McCain2000 campaign trail by recently deceased DFW. Very, very good et very, very relevant.  Title?  “The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and The Shrub.

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