Archive for April, 2007
The anomie and the ecstasy
6 Comments Published April 17th, 2007 in Mostly a picture, Re: the lil' monkey.Ah, two, or more specifically, two-and-a-half. The range of feeling in a day. In an hour. In a moment. The only thing more emotionally exhausting than being the parent of a developmentally on-target two-and-a-half-year-old has got to be being a developmentally on-target two-and-a-half-year-old.
At the end of Act IV in [...]
Weekend bonus shot, 04.15.07
0 Comments Published April 15th, 2007 in Mostly a picture, Weekend bonus shot.Peanut at three months, Berkeley, CA.
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Dada Friday: Reich at a crosswalk
7 Comments Published April 14th, 2007 in Metacommentary, Miscellaney, Mostly a picture.Celebrity sighting, a la Berkeley: we may not have movie stars, or captains of industry, but we do have a surfeit of Nobel Laureates and the random legendary former public servant, like the one pictured above, humbly waiting for the crossing green.
I was going to subtitle this “Reich at a crossroads,” but while that had [...]
Music is to noise as knowledge is to information
6 Comments Published April 12th, 2007 in Baba familias, Seraphim/dakini.City Life, from evie 22’s Flickr photostream
I keep threatening to write a Manifesto for Monotaskers, but I can never find the time to give it my undivided attention. You think I’m kidding. I’m not.
For a very long time – since I first heard the word used, by a busy friend in [...]
The Know-It-All-Brother-In-Law, known to the Acronym Oriented (or A.O.) as the K.I.A.B.I.L., forwarded me this piece, Pearls Before Breakfast, which ran in Sunday’s Washington Post.* If you haven’t yet read it, or heard about it, I urge you to spare the thirty minutes it will take to read the whole thing. The writer, [...]
From time to time, I ponder what it is that makes me a lesbian dad more than a lesbian mom. Since to all the world, I’m a mom, if one goes by the familiar calculation: female anatomy + parental status = mom. Yet something’s different. I’m not your mother’s mom, let’s [...]
Weekend bonus shot, 04.07.07
2 Comments Published April 7th, 2007 in Mostly a picture, Weekend bonus shot.Kissey brother, Berkeley, CA.
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We had a fire, okay, not a fire, but a whirr-click-whine! whirrr-click-whine! sound that repeated itself for, as we now learn, a devastatingly long period of time. That’s because the sound was emanating from our computer’s external hard drive, where we store all the essentials we’d grab if there actually were a fire, [...]
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