Zettel’s links

September 19, 2003

How very strange. Dave Winer reports that his uncle Ken Kieser just died in Jamaica — a man who appears to have been something of a genius, not least in terms of being a Lebenskuenstler (a person who figures out how to live vividly and artfully, with inspiration). In an aside in his tribute, Dave […]

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Totalism

September 19, 2003

Alexandra Stein on Totalism in the 21st century, a response to Todd Gitlin and George Monbiot’s earlier conversation in Open Democracy: [Totalism] is a critical issue facing the global progressive movement, and it’s one we drag into the 21st century from the 20th, the bones of millions clanking along as proof of its dangers. Totalism, […]

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How do you rate?

September 19, 2003

In 8th grade I was 12 and classmate to a girl I can only describe as a mean ditchrat. I didn’t start out disliking her, it just grew on me in the wake of one of her rhetorical but highly consequential questions. She was very hard, which I wasn’t on principle averse to, having been […]

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Liar liar pants on fire

September 18, 2003

It’s a trend, thank heavens. See this AlterNet article by David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation, on the subject of his new book, The lies of George W. Bush; Mastering the Politics of Deception. Included are nifty links to Corn’s site,and a list of the top ten lies; as well as to MoveOn.org‘s own […]

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A List

September 16, 2003

A list of curiosities and texts and events that I will fail to write about at this time: for example, Monster/Beauty by Joanna Frueh, perhaps in relation to this Women on the Edge story. Or how about this review of Marina Warner’s Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (remember No Go the […]

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Pigeons

September 16, 2003

I just spent an aimless hour in — oh, be still my beating heart! — the open, the wide wide open stacks of a university library. This sort of thing excites me tremendously since I might find it. Sometimes I have a plan, other times I wander until I sense an alluring combination of Dewey-isms […]

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Yoo-hoo personal greeting

September 13, 2003

This is for my nephew and his bride; what are blogs for if not also for putting personal greetings on the www: Mario Nakazawa and Jeanne Epstein are getting married tomorrow — best of luck, you two! The wedding is too far away, so I thought I’d instead post a picture of Mario’s great-grandmother, Elisabeth […]

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About a day

September 11, 2003

I wanted to write about this day and what happened 2 years ago as well as what happened 30 years ago, and about the need for seeds of peace. Read the whole thing here if your 9/11 threshhold can take yet another one of these.

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Why this blog is called “post studio”

September 10, 2003

It appears that there may be one or two people confused as to why I changed the name of this blog from Yule Heibel’s Weblog to Yule Heibel’s Post Studio. It has nothing to do with anything as stupid as wanting to avoid the word blog, which I happen to think is quite a good […]

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Barbie’s book?

September 8, 2003

An interview in The Atlantic Online with Virginia Postrel, author of The Substance of Style, columnist for the business section of The NY Times, and blogger. Here’s a question from the interview, followed by Postrel’s answer. All I can say is I couldn’t disagree more: Given your observation that personal style is becoming increasingly important […]

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