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  • Hello, Duke University

    I love it that this weekend’s Google brought me a researcher from Duke University inquiring “how much money does a person working at the White House make”? * * * * * Oops, I spy in my peripheral vision a little something hanging from the right hinge of my eyeglasses. Reach up and pluck it…

  • NOT FIFTEEN MINUTES

    I just spent around five minutes watching Andy Warhol eat a Whopper. I don’t consider this time wasted.

  • The Joffrey Ballet performs "The Rite of Spring"

    Spent a long while Sunday evening watching and then watching again (and again) the Joffrey Ballet’s recreation of Nijinsky and Stravinsky’s 1913 “The Rite of Spring”. The Rite of Spring, video 1 The Rite of Spring, video 2 The Rite of Spring, video 3 You owe it to yourself to watch this ballet. Really, you…

  • Bronze Idols

    I’m not a fan of ballet. I’ve seen performances I’ve enjoyed (usually not classical ballet) but I’m not going to go out of my way to view it. So it’s exceptional that I’m offering some ballet clips below. How’d I get there? A NY Times article nearly convinced me that there may be visions of…

  • AND THEN THEY LEGISLATED A "CENTER OF EXCELLENCE"

    Over at Talkleft. House Passes Thought Crimes Bill and No One Notices? Center of Excellence. Who the hell comes up with these names? Like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. But for your brain.

  • AND SO IT GOES

    RIP hermie.

  • I WOULD FAVORITE A PIC OF THIS ON FLICKR

    Wow. SOMEBODY (cough cough) may be using little robotic dragonflies to maybe spy on folks at political events like anti-war rallies. Ain’t that too cool??!! Little spy dragonfiles! Deserves a paragraph of exclamation marks! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If they’re for real. So what was seen by Crane, Alarcon and a handful of others at the D.C. march…

  • Watching the news on Hurricane Felix

    I have a niece who is currently living in Comayagua, Honduras.

  • BIG UGLY FENCE

    An Atlanta musician decides to send out to everyone on his email list a link to Immigration Gumballs asking everyone to watch it and learn about the dramatic effects of immigration on this country. The long and short of it is Roy Beck addressing an audience of about 99.9% white faces on how America has…

  • DELL MONITOR HELL

    For a while I’ve been writing about the hell I’ve been going through with my Dell monitor. Well, here it is. Thought I’d picture it for you. Click on the image to see it bigger at Flickr. This is my canvas. It’s canvas hell. I forget what I spent on this monitor, which I’ve had…

  • AND I THOUGHT I KNEW HOW TO STAND

    Trying to start writing this post and I fall offline several times first. One of these days we’ll get switched over to ATT…I guess…our reluctance being that we probably expect things to be just as bad or, gasp, what if they get worse. But, the topic. I had one Qigong DVD which seemed quite fine…

  • Down Time

    My sites are on Dreamhost. Which used to be great (I’ve been with them for years) but is now sometimes a true pain in the ass. There was a major outage yesterday (took down my sites for hours) and one couldn’t even reach their status blog. It’s now back online though and I see there…