Hurry up, Johnny

August 31, 2003

As a homeschooling parent and someone opposed to the factory school, this “only in the well-off industrialized world” bit of news totally cracks me up: Officials are determined to crack down on parents who drive their children to school in journeys that sometimes involve less than a mile. The habit is blamed for a fifth […]

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Action and-or talk-talk

August 31, 2003

Both The River and Wood’s Lot point to a couple of interesting Noam Chomsky links. One is on the Interactivist Info Exchange, in which, among other things, Chomsky addresses the following question: “When you talk about the role of intellectuals you say that the first duty is to concentrate on your own country. Could you […]

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Emma is

August 28, 2003

Emma finally posted something again on her blog. It’s hilarious, and I’m not just saying that because she’s many sided and ungirlishly terrific and completely out of the box.

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Do leopards change their spots? No? Thanks for all the fish….

August 27, 2003

If you’re reading this and don’t know me, you might not know that I am a homeschooling parent. Shudder. Lunatic fringe. We — spouse & I — pulled our kids out of a “one-room school house” school in Salem, Massachusetts in June 2000 when he was 9 and she was 6. Then, last year was […]

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All’s well that …runs retrograde? Something about Mars

August 25, 2003

I haven’t gone out to spy on Mars yet, but on the 27th I’m hoping for clear skies and a good view. In the meantime, I remembered a Shakespeare quote I used for a calligraphy project when I was 15 or 16 (i.e., about the last time that Mars was this close to Earth). I […]

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“Forget if it’s working or not, the model is good.”

August 24, 2003

Or: how to get in deeper. Interesting article in today’s Toronto Star, Why U.N. is a target; Tuesday’s bombing of civilian aid workers in Baghdad signals a dramatic escalation, by Lynda Hurst. Lots of detail and background. She quotes Maurice Strong, a Canadian businessman who has in the past acted as a special for the […]

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De-pattern language

August 22, 2003

See this AlterNet article by Kim Eisele, Poverty-Chic: Diesel’s New Line, on fashion and advertising strategies — two of your friendly host’s favourite betes-noir. Writing from Tucson, Arizona and within spitting distance of Mexico, Eisele asks: As the number of undocumented, would-be migrant workers found dead in the deserts of the Southwest since last October […]

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Glamour is a dangerous thing

August 20, 2003

I was 29 when I saw Francesca Woodman’s retrospective at Wellesley College in 1986. Her allusions weren’t exactly foreign — they actually felt familiar — yet I felt unhinged by them. As an art historian familiar with Surrealism, I was completely used to images made by men that essentially spoke to men even as they […]

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Negative Dialectics, personal

August 19, 2003

There is a room in my house that’s supposed to be mine. It’s small, yet it has potential. But since we moved last November and until now, it’s had dumperitis: everything which hasn’t yet found a permanent place elsewhere in the house has found its way into that room. Recently, I took action, …by dumping […]

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Service

August 18, 2003

In case the reader noticed that I changed the name on the front page from “weblog” to “post studio” last week: it signifies my enthusiasm for various kinds of art practices that can be termed “post studio,” in the sense of “beyond, after, outside of” the studio (i.e., beyond cloistered practice). Open practice, mixed practice, […]

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