August 30, 2017 (Wednesday)

August 29, 2018

Super cloudy, but at least a variegated sky. I can see actual clouds, moving shapes – drifting, really; drifting very slowly across the sky. Now that I think about it, I have to say there’s something odd in how they move, for I think I only ever see clouds moving across, whether left to right […]

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August 29, 2017 (Tuesday)

August 28, 2018

So, about that Vice video about Charlottesville, featuring the avowed racist Chris Cantwell… My basic position is that racism, which for some implies choosing your allies based on their ethnicity (race), is a stupid position to take on several counts. First, you will end up with lots of people on your “team” who shouldn’t be […]

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August 28, 2017 (Monday)

August 27, 2018

True confessions. I’ve noticed that I will typically stay my finger from retweeting posts by a woman, whereas I’ll retweet with more abandon if a man posted. This is sexism in action, and it’s quite curious. It’s not that I think the woman’s tweets don’t have merit, of course they do – I’m thinking of […]

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August 27, 2017 (Sunday)

August 26, 2018

Yesterday evening we dropped in on Sarah Slifer Swift’s opening reception for her new arts / dance space, MAGMA (which stands for Movement Arts Gloucester Massachusetts). It’s on the top floor of a 19th-century building that’s no longer in its glory days (and, from the evidence, suffered neglect and abuse during the various economic downturns […]

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August 26, 2017 (Saturday)

August 25, 2018

I saw Claire Lehman’s tweet about Donna Zuckerberg (yes, Mark’s sister) and the latter’s take on the “fascist” roots of classics as a discipline. Lehman of course goes after it – and I bit, quoting her in a retweet. Everything is just so much bullshit everywhere. It’s depressing to see stupidity taking over in every […]

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August 25, 2017 (Friday)

August 24, 2018

I  came to a possibly useful realization just this morning. It had to do with desire, passion, the drive – The Drive (in Neutral, in Park, in Reverse, in “Go”: that’s what I should call a memoir …the stages / settings of your Drive, your Desire(s), and how to shift them). Anyway, I digress. I […]

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August 24, 2017 (Thursday)

August 23, 2018

My head feels heavy, I don’t feel nimble this morning. Last night I took an antihistamine because I saw for the first time in a very long time a very pronounced histamine-release hive or welt on my skin. I hope I’m not heading into that clusterfuck syndrome again. W. and I meet people, and if […]

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August 23, 2017 (Wednesday)

August 22, 2018

Another completely leafed-in, murky day. The climate here really is barbarous. It’s mind-boggling to think that in five or six months we’ll be eyeball deep in winter, shoveling out from blizzards. Yesterday was one of those awful, ennui-ridden, paralyzing days: it was too hot to go for a walk, so I stayed home and read […]

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August 22, 2017 (Tuesday)

August 21, 2018

Last night while I was heading off to bed, I suppose most of the rest of the nation was held in thrall by the media reporting on Trump’s military plans for Afghanistan …which are apparently exactly the same as Obama’s, and as HRC’s no doubt would have been. This is the betrayal Taleb castigated him […]

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August 21, 2017 (Monday)

August 20, 2018

Yesterday morning W. and I took a walk. As we stopped on the way back in front of City Hall, debating whether to go to T.-café across the street, two acquaintances walked by with their “new” (10-month old) dog: N.M. and L.P., longtime friends of N.L. and S.R. We hadn’t seen them in years, not […]

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