Hiking on Mount Doug

December 19, 2003

I’m a very quotidien photographer, but the scenery around me is anything but quotidien. So I decided to post some pictures from a hike the kids and I went on yesterday. See the rest of the photos here.

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Rock my video

December 17, 2003

Thanks to Sheila Lennon for pointing to the news that Wesley Clark won Rock the Vote’s contest to create a video that would appeal to young people and challenge them to vote. As Sheila writes, If you haven’t watched the videos, that may surprise you. If you have, you know that this is what did […]

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Purity is highly overrated

December 14, 2003

Now that the Americans have captured Saddam, the Swiss and others say Iraq should return to full independent state sovereignty soon, while some Arabs (Jordanians, especially), who consider the murderous Saddam a “national hero,” are depressed that Americans instead of Iraqis got him. Why, I wonder, should it be about being intact, inviolable, sovereign, which […]

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The glamorous blogging life…

December 14, 2003

And because I’ve been having such a …lovely … weekend and all its …lovely days leading up to it have been so engrossing, I forgot to mention that Bruce at The River put together a bloggers’ awards list, and I …uh, won the best 2003 infusion of intellect award. Ha! That makes me The Ice […]

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Another public service announcement from your selfless host

December 13, 2003

This is my bit of public service announcement for the weekend — and I wish I could do more: Emma sings in a choir, Viva Chorale. They’re putting on a feast at the University Club — a Renaissance-inspired “Courtly Choral Feast” with a boar’s head procession and everything, to start at 6 pm on Tuesday […]

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Someone tell Mark…?

December 13, 2003

For at least the past 7 days, I have not been able to access wood’s lot. (Mark: I see from referer stats that you have visited my site: I tried sending you email and it was returned as “undeliverable” and with “fatal errors”!) I can’t get to this site. And it’s very strange, as other […]

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Think Different

December 13, 2003

Listening to Ella Fitzgerald give her best to the xmas spirit as she Wishes You a Swinging Christmas — it’s the only favourite around our house — Emma said, apropos of Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer, “Boy, those other reindeer are real sucker-uppers.” Hahaha, she got that right! Nasty stupid buggers, the lot of them! Exclusionary […]

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Research arms of the culture industry

December 10, 2003

I googled “adorno research arm of the culture industry,” hoping to find a reference to what was the Frankfurt School’s assertion that the avant-garde in the mid-20th century acts as a kind of research arm for culture industry. It’s sort of similar to what “cool hunters” do today, snooping out underdog trends, “ethnic” values, ghetto […]

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Menschenskinder…

December 9, 2003

[edited with a PPS below…] It’s clear that mentioning the p-word (porn, long & short form) will get you more google search hits than most any other thing. This creeps me out, especially given some of the mindboggling searchstrings that people are putting into google, which, weirdly, result in visits to my blog. How’s this, […]

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Narcissus isn’t the only god in town: check the pictures

December 7, 2003

I’ve been thinking about the blog as an existential problem, and can’t quite decide if I’m just in a really bad mood, or whether there is something more important happening here. Sartre said that we have the choice to stop existing: that’s what differentiates us from things, which do not have that existential freedom. The […]

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