So last year I was tremendously happy with the apartment I found for my friend Kellen and I to share. I knew at the time that he would be applying to other schools for his PhD and that he would likely be going elsewhere this year, but I planned on staying here, finding another grad …
Staff Sergeant Robert Bale’s victims: The dead: Mohamed Dawood son of Abdullah Khudaydad son of Mohamed Juma Nazar Mohamed Payendo Robeena Shatarina daughter of Sultan Mohamed Zahra daughter of Abdul Hamid Nazia daughter of Dost Mohamed Masooma daughter of Mohamed Wazir Farida daughter of Mohamed Wazir Palwasha daughter of Mohamed Wazir Nabia daughter of Mohamed …
One of my favorite authors, Jonathan Carroll posted this on his Twitter feed and I just had to share. Such a simple gesture, but I would bet that it caused dozens, if not hundreds of people to smile and increased the amount of joy in the world by a small, but meaningful amount. So, I’ll …
Yesterday was a bad day. I felt alone, disconnected, and grumpy about the world and my place in it. Today is . . . better. I’m not, to be honest, jumping with joy, but I feel a bit more grounded and less angry at the world. Sometimes, it’s enough to have an ok or mediocre …
This is not a joke. From the ACLU: The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. Even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised his concerns about the …
For those interested in actual coverage of what’s happening in NYC with the Occupy movement and the events associated with it, particularly today’s N17 marches:
Great culture-jamming idea:
So I edited this video for my GA position at school, which is 12 hours/week working for the marketing department (in addition to my 7 hours for my Teaching assignment). Not great film-making by any means, but it was kind of fun to put it together.
I’ve been working on a directed study of the avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century and have spent the last 10 week or so reading about the Futurists. I came across a couple of Marinetti’s radio sintesi and decided to make them based on his scripts. This is the simpler of the …