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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Keep blogging beautiful, man!

It’s a(nother) cold & rainy day here in Charlottesville. Nobody told me about this. A little homesick maybe for Charleston and N. and L. and oh so many others. The perfect recipe for questioning myself, why I do what I do, use my time as I do, etc. On blogging, Stephen Downes:
I’ve seen a lot [...]

Take back your time day today

Take Back Your Time Day — read about it here — takes place “9 weeks before the end of the year, to emphasize the fact that Americans work an average of 9 weeks more per year than do European workers.” This year’s theme: Let’s Get Back to the Table. We’re cooking up a big pot [...]

Fandango jack-o-lanterns


Peace-o-lantern

Floyd Fandango.

Off to Floyd Fandango

Returned to Vinegar Hill Theatre last night for The Last King of Scotland (VHT’s link for the film review). Had a drink and bite to eat before at L’Avventura next door — it was okay, not great but certainly not bad. I’ll go again. I would not have been able to eat after seeing the [...]

Wavy Gravy’s fish on a leash

In Richmond today the skies are clearer and it’s warmer than the cold rainy day that was yesterday. Woke up in this city, that I know next to nothing about, thinking about Wavy Gravy’s fish on a leash. This after a back-and-forth with someone who told me he’d sat next to Wavy Gravy at the [...]

Post- Green Festival DC

I was really sorry to miss ConvergeSouth 2006 and Daniel and Janet who were there and live blogging. I particularly relate to what Daniel says about the ideal behind his Xark blog vs “being your own niche” (your blog, that is):
I started that way [niche] with my media blog, but the thing I learned was [...]

Green Festival DC day 2

Day two of the D.C. Green Festival has begun, which I’ll be joining in a few, having gotten a slow start today. Highlights of Day one, yesterday: Tom Hayden and Greg Palast.

Ideas sleep furiously

Sometimes I don’t write here because of having to come up with the post or entry title. If I go with what first comes to mind, like today, I’m okay. But If I get hung up on “Well, that doesn’t really say what this post is about…” and all “search engine-tag-reader-blah-blah-blah” then I don’t even [...]

A famous puppeteer

… Forman Brown, once said: “It is in his disturbing likeness to human beings that the puppet is appealing, and it is in his unlikeness that he is comical.”
Which has a little to do with the individual and collective responses and reactions of our experience yesterday with the Tony Oursler installation, I Want to Be [...]