Archive for September, 2005
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
And now, a word about the [o.c.] sponsor
Being one of the millions of oppressed and downtrodden on this wretched earth, I have yet to see an episode of the O.C. this season. The season is 3 (maybe more?) episodes old, now, so you know I’m for reals in terms of my victimhood status.
K was trying to catch me up with all [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Autobiographical by nerdmeyr
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
On Anxiety and Specialists
So my sister sent me 3 books in the mail (thanks, Kara!) One of them happens to be a tome by Wendell Berry, who is sort of the Sojourner Truth of the modern pro-yeoman agrarian movement. Its called The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture and its pretty good.
It might seem [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Beobachtungen by nerdmeyr
Sunday, September 25th, 2005
the end of vacation, pt.2
There are an infinite number of ways to describe a particular place, even to us humans who are woefully unable to think outside three or four dimensions and who have lost almost all higher functioning in our noses and ears. I wonder if I walked up to 100 random people from random places on [...]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
the end of vacation, pt.1
Just returned from the motherland last night and was greeted by K, cicadas, crickets, and tropical depression Rita.
Today has been spent thinking of analogies to how I feel being back in Bloomingtown. Perhaps the most succinct is: it is like being a strip of velcro that has just been ripped from its moorings. [...]
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
Very telling, oh yes indeedy
Seen posted all over campus this week:
Pearls.
Politics.
Power.
Make a difference with
REPUBLICAN WOMEN
It sure is a good thing that those antiquated notions of public service and civic duty have gone the way of CHiPs Patrol…. cut and dismissed due to lack of funding.
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Looting and Shooting of Looting
Michael’s comment to my last post (plus listening to Terry Gross interview Ice-T) continues to make me think.
We have a president who declared, “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a result, much of New Orleans is [...]
