• Archive for July, 2010

    Strangely Like Oulipo

    by  • July 5, 2010 • MUSIC, WRITING • 0 Comments

    So, I’m taking a break from a paper that’s almost done. Something distressing happened the other day, and while it’s sort of looking resolved, I’m still having trouble focusing. It’s interesting, though: I’m sort of performing a narrative analysis of a couple of independent creative projects that my students did in some classes I...

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    Communication is So Important

    by  • July 2, 2010 • PERSONAL • 2 Comments

    A friend was bringing me up-to-date on his life, and for reasons I won’t get into, this story came to mind. Parts of it are second-hand, but I’m going to just tell it the way I’d tell it verbally, that is, without differentiating the bits that I know are true and the bits that...

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    B.A.R.F….For Your Dog’s Health!

    by  • July 1, 2010 • KOREA • 2 Comments

    Found this image while cleaning out the drive for the videocamera I’m sending off to Miss Jiwaku. It was something I saw in, I think, Emart a year ago.The quality isn’t so great, but I can’t not post it: Yes, the Ultimate Diet for your dog. But it’s not what you might think… did...

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    SF Airshow

    by  • July 1, 2010 • SF • 0 Comments

    I was commenting to my friend Insu (a Korean SF translator/fan) that I’m not much of a fan of airplanes, but I got a kick out of this, which was posted to the Launch Pad mailing list the other day… even though I don’t recognize most of the ships.

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