September 2009
Don't worry, I'll be doing it wrong all day.
“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator...”
– Marcel Duchamp
Look, forget what I said earlier. The idea is to...
SOME WORDS I LIKE:
redcloud:
blanddiva11:
mellifluous, cacophony, undulate, fetid, aubergine, Rubenesque, and zounds.
penultimate, tertiary, romp, rambunctious, belligerent, enervated, ennui, and ontological
pretentious, sanctimonious, obstreperous, salacious, inappropriate, cheerleader, hourly, handcuffs, alibi, palindrome
If you've spent any time around American spellers,...
I mean, duh.
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So, you want to know how to make coffee.
For hundreds of years and more, bipedal animals from all walks of living have depended upon coffee to help them remain alert for to hunt, bicycle, and finish important dissertation. So it comes as no surprise that modern humans (homo sapiens sapiens) have decided to like drinking coffee a lot of the time. And now all the time, many people ask, “How do I make the coffee?” Well your in...
Pittsburgh G-20 Police, Fire, and EMS Scanners →
I cannot stop listening to the G20 police scanner. My god, I have become my grandfather.
“We need to be more discriminating with regard to what we post to our Facebook...”
– A person named langer, whom I’m now following, having discovered him through nostrich. See? It’s working already.
I could go for a little decimakeout right about...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
The Replacements (3)
Mos Def (2)
Cujo (2)
When in Rome (2)
The Cure (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“All of us begin life with the instinctive and self-protective notion that...”
– Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, The Art Of Time
Crime and punishment for kids
When I was young, I had a friend named Wilson. He was one of three boys. When one of them hit the other, the punishment was that their dad held the offending child from behind while the victim was encouraged to punch his attacker in the gut.
A while back, after an episode of fraternal aggression among my own three boys, I related this story to them and asked them to evaluate this as a response to...
Can we go back to discussing breastfeeding?
Seriously though
suburbanreport:
Geoff and I are going to give a talk on internet/social media identity and anonymity, and how people can abuse their anonymity in a way that can offend their employers and how THAT concept squares with notions of free speech. Kind of a sociolegal discussion of the social media age and the illusion of anonymity, and what both employers and employees need to keep in mind as these...
One note moron education.
Jason’s right, of course. And some may dismiss my rant as a “get off my lawn” episode - a momentary lapse in the equanimity that has otherwise become a hallmark of my critical observations (ha!), but IN MY DAY, THIS SHIT WOULDN’T HAVE FLYED.
This is why were sutpid.
I send my sons to public school. I do this, in part, because I want to support public education. After six years at this, I’m almost out of illusions about what it means to “support” public education. Yesterday, Jack came home with good news. There had been a quiz - a ten-question, fill-in-the-blanks quiz about a book he’d read. Upon returning the corrected quizzes to the...
“Like you, I’m tempted to loathe myself when I confront the deterioration...”
– My mom,
reminding me to go easy on myself for not having spent as much time painting in recent years as I used to.