I have a lot of friends who travel to and around India frequently, including one, Michael, practically a brother, who has been living/working there for several months and was right in the middle of what happened in Mumbai this week. He keeps a blog and wrote about his experience here:www.vicablog.com
Another friend, Akshay, is a photojournalist [...]
mumbai report
halloween plans
a list of ideas of my own or those which have come to me by suggestion, for halloween costume ‘08, mostly to do with my hair:
jimmy page – with my sister Jenny as robert plantpresident somebody (??) for group Battlestar Galactica costumeearly / like-a-virgin-era madonna for group phases of Madonna costumediana ross for potential group [...]
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sometimes when I’m biking alone (this was especially true back home, where my bike routes were limited), I get reminded of foreign cities, like I could almost be there, in some “developing”, “third world” kind of place, and it makes me happy. and then i pass a dumpster and realize that it’s only fragrant garbage [...]
Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
“When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic exams.”Editorial Observer – Wasilla Watch – Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
the news about this woman just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?
things start happening
so, maybe i was lying when i said i was going to start blogging frequently.
but friends, let it be known, i am not lying when i say this:I am moving to Portland. Oregon. September 4, 2008.
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
A friend just sent me this article, which I quite liked: Is Google Making Us Stupid? – published in the most recent Atlantic Monthly.
It speaks to my internet addiction, or my fear of that.
“For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows [...]
Will Butler for Obama
On the one hand, I have to ask, “Who let this guy talk?” But at the same time, this exemplifies exactly what I’ve always loved about him. Of course he should talk! A-frikkin’-men!“People weren’t excited about Franklin Delano Roosevelt because he was the first candidate to do the wheelchair. … I’m sick of fine presidents, [...]
expect blogs.
Hi! I write this as my blog is uploading, because I just tried twice to blog the same youtube video, and I guess it’s still thinking about that.
I recently (finally) bought myself a digital camera – so I can (potentially) do a much better job sharing my world, now (than I potentially could have; considering [...]
awardings
So, I wasn’t planning to watch the Academy Awards show tonight, but I wound up catching a good bit of it, anyway. I wouldn’t have much to say about it (although it was awesome to see Morgan’s dad win! and now I have to see the film, which I previously didn’t even know about..), as [...]
Keep Company
The Keep Company doesn’t make their shoes in China. They make ‘em in Brazil, sweatshop-free, with vegan-friendly components (and a little wool). They tend to be pretty expensive for the little sneakers that they are … but right now, it seems that most of what they have is on sale.
The other thing is that [...]