In bad news, I got called a moralistic, over-wrought navel-gazer. In good news, blog stats are up and visits have quadrupled in the past few days. I’ll take it! Welcome new readers, hope you remembered to bring your bongs. I decided not to weigh in over there since I felt trying to defend myself or [...]
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Win Some, Lose Some
26-Feb-09Live Blogging Jury Duty
25-Feb-09(It’s no Oscars night or VMA, but how else am I supposed to pass the time?) 10:20 — The halls of justice are really over-heated and dry. 10:28 — The halls of justice have internet! 10:34 — Have updated FB status three times. 10:46 — Man in charge of my jury selection room is inviting [...]
What She Said
25-Feb-09Tomorrow, I report for my civic duty: waiting around for two days while I am not selected to sit on a jury. I would love to make it onto a jury. But if ever for some reason I wanted to get out of jury duty, I would draw from Liz Lemon for inspiration. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/AzusuXSj8Y0" [...]
Ghost Stories
24-Feb-09I haven’t quite been able to wrap my head around the conversation about racism over at scatterplot. One thought I’ve had is that the pain inflicted by the cartoon under question, the pain of viewing the cartoon for people who know that monkey means them, has gone largely unacknowledged by those who question the racist [...]
On Writing
20-Feb-09Rachel and I are doing some work at a cafe. We got the best seats, against a wall of windows, and our friends behind the counter are playing only good music. In between reading and writing we’ve been talking, mostly about reading and writing, and about how hard writing can be. And how finding a [...]
Just Perfect
19-Feb-09In my search for classic texts in sociology, I wound up uncovering the Pelican Project. Put together by things magazine, the project is a collection of beautiful covers from Pelican press, including the above. The covers are organized by decade, and then year. Why can’t books still look like this?
My eyes have melted into my skull. This year I’ve vowed to get a handle on my information flows. (“Vowed” somehow sounds more compelling than “my New Year’s resolution is” … those words are the death knell for a plan if ever there was one.) After heeding this helpful advice and purging my inbox of [...]
Reading List?
17-Feb-09Our favorite local university librarian who lunches has requested a list of “classic/core” texts in sociology. I assembled the list below — additions anyone? I’m also compiling a secret subterfuge list of books that should but probably never will be as widely taught. The doors are wide open on that one for suggestions as well. [...]
PSA
02-Jan-09We interrupt this blog briefly to bring you this other blog: dearjuliedavidandted.
Class Dismissed!
31-Dec-08Happy New Year dear readers reader. The band leaves tomorrow for two weeks of shows in Europe, so I don’t expect to be on this thing much. I look forward to posting, reading comments, commenting on comments, linking to posts, and wasting time looking for stupid photos to add to posts with you in 2009.