Friends, Colleagues, and leftist musicians ( Read more... )

Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they.....

see?

A transgendered MP has created quite a row over Italian parliamentary loos. The inital response from center-right leaning politicians was a proposal to install a third set of bathrooms for transgendered people. I think, however, instead of increasing segregation by excluding transgendered persons from both biological men and women, this case ( Read more... )

I'm going to see this tommorow!


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Apparently, by the US Government's own account, waging war on Terrorism actually increases the threat of terrorism. It should be no surprise, then, that the Federally funded teenage anti-drug PSA ad campaign is linked to rises in teenage drug use (a few examples). Extrapolating on this phenomena we can clearly see that the Government's approach to ( Read more... )

Does anybody ever read these? I read the poems by other PT contributors on my Friends Page.

Warm blood of amazing talents
senselessly covers the street.
Speechless and shocked they wait.
Cold December hands clutch candles and sing,
Remember him.

Overwhelming quiet pours through-
the white room they shared.
Peaceful and yet so tainted.

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I am TAing for top ethnomusicologist Roberto Garfias. During session, my students will need to experience this treasure. We'll be discussing the meaning of sound and music in and out of its cultural context.

There is a great deal of new work on my deviantArt account. They mostly consist of photographs I took in Big Sur, CA.

I would like to direct you all to a wonderful exhibit of Lord Snowdon's photographs at Chris Beetles London Gallery. Lord Snowdon's work has had a large impact on my own visual aesthetic.

I'm now in my second year of graduate school at UCI. The skills I've learned as a curator, photographer, and computer programmer are shadowed by the monolith of my graduate career. It's been a long time since I considered who I am and of what importance who I am has to my life and the lives I affect. Maybe I should do that now.

Two years ago I was ( Read more... )