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wishing each and all a better year
(a lot of us can't take too many more like the last one.)
I'm strongly inclined to go with the vernacularists and greet the new year as the beginning of a new decade. Heaven knows we can use one! -
ever-evolving spam
I just received "Subject: Dating 101: Dealing With the Race Factor".
The spam itself is boringly the same, but the header definitely caught my eye. (Not in tyhe way intended.) -
Rothbury -- summary
Last spring there began to be serious advertising for a rock festival in Rothbury, Michigan. That's up the other side of the lake (beyond Saugatuck, if you know the general area). The headliners were to be The Dead, Dylan, String Cheese Incident, and Willy Nelson, with a page-long list of more, from King Sunny Ade to Ani DiFranco to Toots and the ( Read more... ) -
Little Brother, the play, on in Chicago until July 18
I just heard about this from today's bOINGbOING, but it opened a week ago.
Is there any word-of-mouth on it? -
Chicago Riot Cops Reunion
"The time has come that the Chicago Police be honored and recognized for their contributions to maintaining law and order - and for taking a stand against Anarchy ( Read more... ) -
a different thought on the dying newspapers
This is prompted by reading yet another blog post about the problem of the reporters being much too chummy with the reported on. "Stockholm Syndrome" "the Villagers" etc ( Read more... ) -
"Tell me about your mother superior"
It's a long-standing puzzle to me that it seems so much clearer to me than to many other people that one of the basic drivers of the right-wing program is sexual hysteria. "Anti-abortion"ists want to punish sexually active women. Homosexuality is so deeply provocative that it can't be talked about rationally at all ( Read more... ) -
JG Ballard in Shanghai
A more unusual note, from James Fallows, a journalist I admire and whose work I follow, who lives most of the time in China:
JG Ballard in Shanghai. -
Marie Equi Day
Well, I only missed Ada Lovelace Day by a week, but I did have an icon of her since I started this lj account ( Read more... ) -
another inflation-adjusted 2 cents worth on the Watchmen movie
[cross-posted from General Technics ( Read more... )