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The Gall of Her

April 30th, 2010 § 7

hospital A number of questions float about the household air today … some as pure depressive drivel, but alright, I have washed up on the far shore of a routine surgery last week—or was it two weeks ago—without any clue as to why I am alive and what’s more, Read the rest of this entry

The Silence of the iPad

April 9th, 2010 § 2

It is also dead quiet—no fan, no humming, nada. This is the future of computing. Daring Fireball.

I don’t doubt it. Did I mention? I bought an iPad? Did you imagine I would not?

Like so much of the future, the iPad tiptoes in on little cats’ feet. I wasn’t knocked out by Steve’s unveiling, I don’t think anyone was. Nothing like the time the big screen zeroed in on his right front pocket and he withdrew, not from the pocket of his jeans, but from the watch pocket, that itty-bitty Shuffle. Now that was a wow moment.
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Back When We Were Donkeys

March 25th, 2010 § 5

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Bitch Ph.D.: “Why do we take the institutional status quo as authoritative, as normative even, and NOT take basic facts of human biology as authoritative and normative?”

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Thanks, 3Quarks

March 19th, 2010 Comments Off

Just realized that my post The Wheels on the Bus was number 29 on a list of 78 nominees for the 2010 3QD Prize in Arts and Literature. I don’t know if the list was ranked in wonderfulness or what—hard to believe, seeing the company I’m in.

Plus I’m so late in finding this, voting has long since closed. Didn’t make it to the semi-finals, but hey, thank you Three Quarks for including the bitch at all.

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Taking It To The Streets

March 15th, 2010 § 2

Rabbi Lerner, AlterNet: It is not a mistake for people to be demanding of Obama that he BE the Obama they voted for. But what would be a mistake is to think that such a demand is going to be given credence until we form a powerful movement of our own that is ready to take action and bring people into the streets …

Oh please. Like that’s ever going to happen. Ever. The streets don’t exist in the way they did in the Sixties—okay, Cal student protests recently took to Telegraph Avenue, but that’s like one street—and as for building a powerful movement … American Idol, that’s the powerful movement America wants, likes, is willing to spend coin texting those votes… and it doesn’t require leaving the house. You noticed.

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St. Louis

March 10th, 2010 § 1

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I’m sorry, but did he roll up his shirtsleeves in Pennsylvania? Not that I saw. This isn’t rocket science or Kremninolgy, it’s just watching the signs. Semiotics are all around us, in fact we are bombarded, inundated with fucking signs. The signaling of meaning, which, I realize, has been co-opted by advertising. When did that happen? My mind is a blank. But god I love the ads in old National Geographics Read the rest of this entry

He’s Back?

March 9th, 2010 § 4

… when you’re in Washington, folks respond to every issue, every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: What does this mean for the next election? (Laughter.) What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?
President Obama, Pennsylvania Health Care Remarks.

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