tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67109072012-01-31T16:44:32.069-08:00Earth People! I was born on Jupiter!Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.comBlogger1701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-68815354209494798992010-05-05T09:56:00.002-07:002010-05-05T09:58:16.706-07:00

Actually, 2 years and three months. And this post is just a placeholder, really, to free me from the onslaught of comment-spam that gets dropped on you when you leave your blog in the wild to be raised by the wolves.

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In a post below (titled The Perfidious Myth of the Unified Church) I talk briefly about and show a photo of a sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum. This is officially titled "The Sarcophagus of the Two Brothers". Following is what my classmate Perry had to say about this beautiful monument:Two Men and a SarcophagusThe highlight of the whole adventure occurred for me in Museo Pius in a lecture by

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So in the posts below I hope you will get a sense of the class, Rome: A Crossroad of Religion, I just had the privilege of taking, thanks to Starr King School for the Ministry, The American Waldensian Society, and Dr. Gabriella Lettini. Of course this is a fragmentary overview, and my purpose is survey and not exhaustion. I want to share some photos, observations, and in-class learnings in the

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The Tiber as seen from the Ponte Principe Amadeo--this sideways problem is tricky. All I can say is that portrait-oriented photos don't get sidewaysed in Preview, or in iPhoto. Computer friends, help!The interior dome of the Pantheon. The whole of the temple dome is poured concrete, with walls 20 feet thick at the base. The interior is exactly as tall as it is wide: 140 feet. It survives (at

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I am taking a class this semester about the teaching and theology of Dr. Howard Thurman. It is taught by Dr. Dorsey Blake, who in addition to his work at Starr King is the pastor of Dr. Thurman's Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco. In the first class meeting we watched about an hour of an interview with Dr. Thurman. At one point, when Dr. Thurman was discussing his

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Ruins of a Christian church built into the ruins of an ancient Insula (apartment block) in the Southwest hillside of the Capitoline. Rome, where even the new ruins are three times older than my country.Flower shop at night. It seems to me that the fellow on the right has had his fill of tourist taking snapshots.Long exposure of St. Peter's square at night. Hard to capture the unbelievable huge

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I mentioned below that Prof. Diane Lipsett delivered a wonderful lecture on the conversation currently taking place between New Testament scholars, family historians, social archaeologists and the like. The title of this post is actually the title of en entire semester-long course taught by Prof. Lipsett, so for our, geez, ninety minute session she condensed her focus to Men, Women, and Children

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One of my favorite books of the last few years is Lawrence Weschler's Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, gorgeously published by San Francisco's own McSweeneys'. It attempts to show or create connections between different artworks, public spaces, and ways of thinking and seeing that have echoed in Weschler's life. It is intuitive, mysterious, occasionally infuriating, and completely

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One of Bernini's angels on the Ponte Angeli. Each of ten angels holds a different instrument of the Passion.Roman skyline, from the top of the Castel Sant'Angelo.Skating rink on the banks of the Tiber. I walked past this almost every day. When we arrived, during holiday, it was packed from early afternoon on. Attendance seemed to taper off after Epiphany (Jan. 6), and by the time I left on

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One night, walking with Gabriella and Cathy from the seminary to the Casa Valdese, the talk turned to the relationship of the students to the teachers of the class. Gabriella had heard through the grapevine that some of the students were complaining about the accents of some of the guest and Italian teachers, and that the lectures were hard to understand and follow. At the time, this seemed

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We got a late start on the morning of January 6th, and as we approached St. Peter's Square from the apartment Mom and Dad had rented we heard marching band music and noticed a large number of people bustling towards the square with us. Whoops! It was Epiphany, the culmination of the Christmas holiday, and we were arriving at the square with just enough time to soak in the scene before Pope

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On welcoming us to our tour of the Vatican's collection of archaic Pagan, Jewish, and Christian tomb inscriptions, the collection's curator noted that the purpose of our tour was of a kind with the inscriptions we were about to experience: "something about these inscriptions demonstrating the early unity of the church, a unity that you in this class are trying to recapture. Good for you!" This

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The Colosseum, perhaps the most iconic of Rome's parade of iconic structures, was famously plundered for building material during the Renaissance, serving as a living quarry for marble and travertine in particular. It was stripped down to a third of its original mass during this building boom. The typical response seems to be: "how dare they have plundered this priceless architectural relic!"

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Michelangelo's famous Moses sculpture at San Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in chains), inspiration for weirdos as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Cecil B. DeMille (who cast Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments simply due to the actor's physical resemblance to the statue--yes, I see the joke in that statement). The church also houses what are purported to be the actual chains with which

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One highlight of this course was a meeting with His Eminence Cardinal W. Kaspar, who leads the Ecumenical Dialogue division of the Catholic Church. We met in a large room, w/fancy chairs and question-microphones. Cardinal Kaspar sat at the head of the large, U-shaped table under a large icon of St. Peter and St. Andrew embracing. Peter is the mythic head of Catholicism (the rock upon which

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H.E. Cardinal Kaspar frustrated that dialogue with, for instance, Reform groups involves lots of democracy and ratification on their part (no central figure invested with voice and authority of group). But, at least is possible. Dialogue with Pentecostals, who are growing massively in Italy and Europe, is impossible because they have no theology. That's an almost exact quote.

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One point made/brought up by Prof. DeVries in her debriefing of the visit with His Eminence was that "official" dialogues often fail/stick (Protestant walkout in 2000 over Jubilee indulgences, for instance) on the rarified, finer points, while work on the ground between (in this case) Prots and RCs is in many cases very successful.So: are the big issues really the Big Issues? What holds groups

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Wow! A beautiful photograph of a Roman scene!

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Cardinal Kaspar vs. Paolo FerreroResponsibility to party/heirarchies?Responsibility to self? Conversation characterized by willingness on both sides to be changed, to emerge from encounter different than you were before--has to be mutual, when you represent a gov't or structure or whatever and are in the position of delivering intransigence and rhetoric you may be incapable of dialogue--do you

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So here's the course catalogue blurb from the Rome class:"ROME: A CROSSROAD OF RELIGIONS"Description "Utilizing the history, arts, architecture and geography of Rome--at the crossroads between Europe and the Mediterranean and rapidly becoming increasingly diverse in every respect--this course will address central issues in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, while also bringing forth the unique

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So! There is a lot I still need to write about the last year, in particular the cancer-related deaths of two of my professors over the summer, and the armed robbery that Sarah, my parents, and I were victims of in November. But it will have to wait! I recently returned from a class in Rome, Italy, and for my final project I committed to write in this blog about my experiences, and share some

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What Baiocco wants, Baiocco gets. To quote Jim Anchower, I know it's been a long time since I rapped at you, but there's been a lot going down at Casa Karlson. (Not as catchy as "Rancho Anchower," but I don't write for The Onion so there's a lot less pressure. And quality control.)The main stress between last October and this February has been applicating for various internships. At the start

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The Nazi airship Hitleriffic! burns over New Jersey.

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The Eagle (Der Adler, auf Deutsch) just sent me This Super-Sweet Article about the Zeppelin revival movement. Let me just say that I would travel by Zeppelin rather than heavier-than-air craft any day of the freakin' week! I'm not as big an airship nerd as the person who wrote the wikipedia article I've linked the title to (homeslice went so far as to quote airship-related portions of the

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The Rock and/or Roll band Radiohead has just announced (as of two days ago--so I'm a little behind the times) that they will be selling their next album online, for no fixed price. A prospective consumer has the option of paying anywhere from 99.99 GBP to, well, 00.00 GBP. I'm no economist, but it doesn't take Milton Friedman to tell you that a contract with Generic Big Record Company, Inc., is

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You, as a right-thinking, good-hearted person, must watch this short film by the Cuarons about Naomi Klein's latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. My beloved and brilliant father long maintained that, basically, it was all Reagan's fault. Pretty good general rule. In every father-child relationship, however, the child must define per/him/her-self against that

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ESPN, bless them, is showing the UW Badgers football game today! Right now it's about two minutes from the end of the third quarter, and UW is up 34-24 over Michigan State. Not too shabby! Wisconsin's defense has stiffened a little in the second half, and PJ Hill is running like he has an extra leg. In other news, the Brewers are losing to the Padres in the eighth inning. Kind of hard to

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Ooog. I caught Sarah's cold during our getaway this weekend, and all my running around yesterday just brought it down on my head like a sack of doorknobs. I feel like crap, and I've got a ton of homework dangling over my noodle. And yet, I just spent the last hour reading and commenting on an AV Club blogpost about fantasy and sci-fi novels. I'm a firm believer in double-dipping, and here's

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I love seeing Oberlin get recognition. And I love its art rental program. But this article is just terrible. Typos, bad sentence construction, you name it. It looks like it was written by a child. Very disappointing, WKYC.In other news, Sarah and I are going away for our 5th wedding anniversary, so don't expect anything before Sunday!

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which is why I haven't posted. Here's two quick links, and a lovely photogram.Rolling Stone makes another argument for its continued relevance with a gut-wrenching article about how super-swell the Iraq adventure has been managed.And all my IT homies and Stage Crew studs are wetting their drawers at the latest Leatherman Multi-tool. Don't ask me how I know, just assume there was a disturbance

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Well, maybe a little looked-for. I flipped on the TV yesterday morning, curious to see who was playing, and what do I find but the opening minutes of Packers v. Eagles! On live TV! In Oakland! Bliss.Actually, save for a few moments of excitement courtesy of Ol' Number Four, the (really-really-outstanding-looking) Packers Defensive Line, and the Eagles special teams unit, it was a pretty

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I came across a great post at HooptyRides (blog of fixit-genius Mr. Jalopy) on the subject of classic cars, and whether or not any of today's cars will ever be considered "classic". It's the August 21 entry, and well-worth the scroll-down. Mr. Jalopy was inspired by this article in the Wall Street Journal. I agree with Mr. J's critiques and insights, particularly regarding the extensive use of

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#1!!! A sweet trans-Atlantic ground-effect wingship hypothesized in Popular Science, way way back in 1984, and featured recently on BoingBoing's new Gadgets site.#2!!! A revisiting of Rain Man from the Onion's wonderful pop-culture studies site, The AV Club. Highly recommended because of the perspective of its author, and because of said author's insights (which I guess must stem from that

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BoingBoing.net, my fave blog, has been posting about Cayetano Ferrer recently. His stuff is thought-provoking and beautiful, and I think I might be able to use it in my thesis! Click the title of this post for a link to his site. You can also go to BoingBoing and search their site for "Cayetano Ferrer" for photos of a cool project he did by painting billboards with the images of the landscape

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First, a few political nuggets! Bad few weeks for the GOP and the administrationEither this rabbit hole goes deeper than humanly imaginable, or the wheels have finally come off the noise machine. Or this is a statistically meaningless cluster of bad news for the Prez. This decent article from Huffington Post shoots two fish in the same barrel: Karl Rove and American journalists.Bill Moyers

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Just a few late-nite links in between folding the laundry and cooking a late, local, stir-fried-veggie dinner in case Sarah's hungry when she gets home from bartending at a wedding in Sonoma. Mouthful of a sentence! What happened is that I double-booked myself with catering jobs today, so Sarah, bless her, took the bartending-wedding job, while I worked at a Bat Mitzvah over in Walnut Creek. !

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Here's a bunch of stuff I thought was interesting enough to email to myself at various times over the summer:***Sidney Blumenthal declares the current Republican paradigm to be kitsch, ersatz, however you want to Allemagnize it. I tend to agree. (holy moley, this one's almost a year old--where have I been? At any rate, here's two core paragraphs: "Kitsch is imitative, cheap, sentimental,

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If anyone knows how to un-sideways a photo uploaded onto blogger, I'm open to suggestions.

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jiggety-jig. Whew. So that's it for the crazy summer travels (at least, the planned-out ones). Sarah and I got home a few hours ago. We woke up this morning at 3 am (pacific time), so I'm gonna try to keep this one short and sweet. 1: Paul and Ali's wedding was amazing. Expect more post in the coming days. Long story short, they are now married and honeymooning up in Door County; a good

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Rats. Maybe since I was travelling most of the day yesterday, I can get a free pass this time. All is well at Becky and Andy's new place--it's on a knoll, so there are great mountain views on all sides; it is open and light all day; and Maddie and Carly are super happy. What a blessing to have two such sweet nieces! I went to Target down in Littleton today, to buy myself a minister suit for

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The only part of this video I don't like is right before the the start of the second verse, where West utters the words "Me Likey" while images of an Asian woman dance on screen. I expect more from someone as smart and politically active as West, especially in light of his call for HipHop to abandon anti-gay language.That said, I can't stop watching this one. Daft Punk have captured cycle-punk

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Turns out the "Add Image" window was opening behind the open FireFox window rather than just popping right out in front. Better than nothing!Here's two of me and housemate QueenE from the day we were both nerds, accidentally.Evildoers! Beware our vigilance!Casual!

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This [click on the post title for the link] can't really be called an article; it's more of a stream of thematically linked factoids about one of the late 20th century's perfect objects: the CD. My Dad got the family's first CD player when I was in first grade ('86, I think--I seem to remember it was in the Spring) and I'll never forget climbing up the back porch steps with Simon and Garfunkel's

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So now I can't post photos? Man, Blogger, you are losing Brownie Points left and right this evening. >:(

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Fuck. The first half of this post just got bloggered. I can't reconstruct it tonight, or ever probably, but just to provide a little continuity with the surviving portion, I wrote about the death of my favorite PSR professor, Doug Adams, and how taking his class Modern Art and Religion in America changed my life. I will write more about him tomorrow, since I can't do him justice tonight. ....

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While I was pretty harsh on Clapton in my previous post, I feel compelled to note that, in my opinion, Duane Allman's soaring slide guitar solo in the second half of the song is one of the most transcendent moments in ...I was going to say popular music, but I think I can lump unpopular music in with that, and declare it one of my favorite musical moments, ever. Here's a photo titled "Wacka

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In a conversation last weekend (with Frunchy? Damn it all, I can't remember! Sorry if I've misattributed this...) my conversation partner remarked that the hallmark of a good blog is consistency, that one should be able to check it daily and have something new to read. Otherwise there's just no incentive. So forthwith, I resolve to post at least daily. There's always something worth thinking

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Last night, in San Francisco's ATampersandT park, Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's all-time home run record. Thank God that this media circus can now dissipate. The Chronicle devoted its entire front page to a huge photo of the triumphant slugger, going so far as to replace its banner with a "756!!!" logo. Classy. Lost in all the hubbub was a tiny detail that, for me, sums up the entire Bonds

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You filter through the last few days at BoingBoing and post the stuff you're interested in reading later!Check out this page of rice-paddy-art! With careful application of different varieties of rice, these farmers transcend the boundaries of their craft! Marvel!!! At the President's grandfather's attempted coup of FDR!!!Here's a cool video-mashup of two of my favorite things: Stop-motion

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Sarah and I landed in Minnesota around this time last night--now she and Areca are out on the town with Suzanne as part of a "Ladies' night out". Me? I've been reading magazines and comic books and drinking a few beers. If Frunch and Gabe had arrived a day sooner I would have had some company, but honestly, I've had a great night. Once we get back to the Bay, expect some great shots of Areca

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Super-friend DJ PM Funk sent me this article a few days ago, and I finally held down my vomit long enough to finish it. Don't get me wrong, it's a great article--it's the subject matter that is so vile. Johann Hari reports from The National Review's annual cruise, and it's a horrifying, shocking, and devastating story. When PM sent it my way it was with the message "See if you can make it past

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Only lightly nerdy! Take that, Joe Barry.

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I miss fireflies. I miss cardinals. I miss seasons. And man, o man, do I miss thunderstorms. We got a couple of real serious t-storms one of the days we were cleaning out Gaga's apartment. Here are some photos from that evening.

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We came into Lansing at a little after midnight. Barry and Sandy picked us up and we drove back down to Jackson. We went to the hospital the next day to see Gaga. I don't really know how to write about seeing her. She looked so different from the last time we'd seen her, at Christmas. Her vitality was gone, maybe everything that made her her was gone, or maybe it was invisible, or resting in

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Why the Sideways, Blogger? Anyway, Chris Murray's huge face will frighten you into buying a lottery ticket, apparently.Grizzo and Gabe.Sarah and Mt. Shasta, ala Alex Katz.Mt. Shasta.

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So I was 0-for-2 in predictions in my last post. No Olympic Peninsula, no GA.When we left Oakland, we drove more than 12 hours up to Breitenbush Hot Springs in southern Oregon, where we tried our damnedest to relax, without really succeeding. Then we visited good buddy Shauncito in Corvallis, where he is finishing his PhD, and living with his PhD advisor and the advisor's family. Great to see

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-8143675596878607482007-06-12T07:05:00.000-07:002007-06-12T07:06:12.035-07:00

Yep--Sarah and I are outta heere! We'll be hiking in the Olympic Peninsula, and then in Portland for GA. So, uh...later!

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My word! Like Tolkein said, it's dangerous business walking out your front door--you never know where the day will take you. This whole thing has been my first introduction to the "UU Blogosphere", and a good reminder that the creative conflict inherent in forging and leading in liberal religion can be messy business. One point made by many folks I've talked to about this is how different the

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This is a cross-posting of a comment I left on peacebang.com's recent post about my school, Starr King School for the Ministry. PeaceBang, who is apparently a UU Minister in the Northeast, posted a few days ago an item about my school's supposed "banning" of the term, "brown bag lunch," because of the racialized connotations of brown bags.* Her post was, to my reading, haughty and dismissive,

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I ran into Becky at the Temescal Cafe today. We were both hammering out our final papers, mine on Jasper Johns and on the movie Serenity, hers on the privilege inherent in agnosticism. This was for her Eth(n)ics of Whiteness class, a 20 pager on the topic of focussing on one of your deeply held beliefs and examining the privileges and assumptions inherent in it. As an agnostic myself I was

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-19957831616953234512007-05-19T01:47:00.000-07:002007-05-19T02:01:15.145-07:00

Here's the video for "Crosseyed and Painless" from the Talking Heads albumRemain In Light. David Byrne: American Genius? David Byrne: Cultural and Racial Appropriator Par Excellence? Of note: video directed by Toni Basil, of "I Want Candy" fame.Also: anyone know of another video that features its generative source less than this one does? Or one that features such beautiful choreography and

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-17020970310544113122007-05-19T01:34:00.000-07:002007-05-19T01:40:34.027-07:00

The voice is a little weird, but I couldn't resist Kermit the Frog interpreting the classic Talking Heads song "Once In A Lifetime" ala Stop Making Sense (still my favorite movie of all time).

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A few days late for Mother's Day, but so it goes.Growing up as the son of an epidemiologist, public safety concerns were a prominent part of my upbringing. In particular, the importance of wearing a bike helmet when riding a bike was well and thoroughly established. To this day I think I could total up the number of times I've ridden my bike helmetless on two hands. I definitely owe a large

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-89649365660826137722007-05-15T23:50:00.000-07:002007-05-15T23:56:10.097-07:00

I went to one of those once. Once. It was across State St. from The Chocolate Shoppe, which has been a Wisconsin-centric ice-creamery since I can remember. I spent my entire Cold Stone experience staring out the window at The Chocolate Shoppe wondering, "Why, oh why, couldn't I have spent my $$$ there, instead of at this corporate hell-hole?"Click on the title of this post to find a happily

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Maybe it's Finals, maybe it's the Warriors poised on the brink of elimination from the NBA Playoffs, maybe it's just the change in the weather. Whatever it is, there is a weird feeling in the air today. The loud, obnoxious middle-schoolers on BART were louder, the homeless people talking to themselves are angrier, the drivers are more aggressive, and I feel my own hackles up higher than usual,

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-68570182404825648992007-05-14T14:10:00.000-07:002007-05-14T14:17:08.177-07:00

This is ...stomach turning? A cool idea? A guarantee that you will have awkward neighbors if you live here? I'm still chewing on this one...One thing is for sure--I would like it better if the concept was "Tolkein as seen by Thomas Hart Benton" rather than "Tolkein as seen by Thomas Kinkade."Again, thanks to Madam for this one--Whoa. Also, check out her blog for some serious Knittering.

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-39493740498247193202007-05-14T10:36:00.000-07:002007-05-14T13:28:22.505-07:00

This one's actual size! Oh, to have a Tolkein rarities collection, and the $$$ wherewithal to build my own real-life Hobbit Hole in order to house my opulent library in style. This is from the back page of Fine Homebuilding, a cool magazine my Dad used to subscribe to.Each month the back page features some outlandish house, or house-building artisan. I love seeing the far-out things people do

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-59412664258847266372007-05-14T10:15:00.000-07:002007-05-14T10:30:42.774-07:00

I should have posted about this earlier, but I was too choked up. Why must the good ones die so young? Your honest, hardcore, take-no-prisoners brand of numbah-krunchin' will be missed, H-Dogg. Here's one of his earliest articles, a wild cry against the powers-that-be entitled "Keep Your Fucking Shit Off My Desk."Carry on my wayward son/There'll be peace when you are done/Lay your weary head

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-45321084516564502352007-05-05T01:21:00.000-07:002007-05-05T02:09:32.893-07:00

Elizabeth's comment to my previous post makes me feel like I should write a little more about what that crow meant to me. I want to write my thoughts about it before I read Leon's book, just to put out my own thoughts on the matter before involving another's thoughts.I knew that crow would follow me within the first few seconds after I heard and saw it. I knew that it wouldn't follow me past

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-26253822968922608742007-05-04T13:25:00.000-07:002007-05-04T13:36:48.160-07:00

I just got back from a jog around the neighborhood. I ran out to College Ave. and just after I'd turned around and was heading home a crow flew in front of me, cawing lustily, and up onto the telephone wires. I kept running, and after I'd gone just a few steps, the crow flew down from its perch, still cawing, to a tree branch ahead of me. We leapfrogged like this for a block. I turned a

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-10445355089515049042007-04-27T18:55:00.000-07:002007-04-28T18:21:03.265-07:00

Great 18 song mixlist on The AV Club--see title of this post. It's a list of a lot of music I've never heard/heard of, but then I'm not a music-writing professional, so what do I know?This list provoked 403 (!) comments, hipsters weighing in on sad pop music. Makes sense that there would be so many comments, since everyone knows that the best songs are the saddest songs.My two cents: Ani

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-31009763506922318502007-04-27T17:40:00.000-07:002007-04-27T17:52:05.895-07:00

I was searching for a brilliant piece of internet farcery, "Who Will Be Eaten First?" a Cthulhian parody of a Jack Chick tract.* Sadly, instead of the mindless horror of The Old Ones, I found something much more soul-chilling: a lawyerly cease-and-desist order. (http://www.howardhallis.com/bis/cthulhuchick/) (Again, sorry for the cut-and-paste--I am totally repeatedly flummoxed by blogger with

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-18783207730913999962007-04-21T08:24:00.000-07:002007-04-21T09:18:29.112-07:00

Cut and paste the link below to an amazing DIY miniature version of Bag End, Bilbo and Frodo's ancestral home.http://community.livejournal.com/little_world/39277.html?view=211565Unbelievable.What, indeed, is it about miniatures? Doll houses, dioramas, model train layouts, all endlessly fascinating. I'm not sure if it's the "let's play God!" impulse, or a translation of that urge that drives us to

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But I have no idea (or, truth be told, desire to find out how) to make the photos I'm posting not be huge. What I would like would be to do it the way Team Cardavi does it over at the Driveway. Oh well. The last (previous) photos were from New Mexico and Golden Gate Park. the pond at the Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.sunset outside of Santa Rosa, CA.cart of Buddhas at

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-66841736679612783462007-04-14T12:12:00.000-07:002007-04-14T12:28:47.689-07:00

I just published a wholly inadequate post over at Infinite Driveway about the death of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., one of the great humans of the last century. That's about all I have to say on the matter, so I thought I'd just post some photographs, to spice things up a little. And cause why the hell not?

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Dr. Mary Schweitzer, for extracting soft tissue from a 68 million year old Tyrannosaur thigh-bone. Soft tissue. 68,000,000 years. Quick math: that's nearly one million human lifespans. Best paragraph from the article: "Repeated analysis of the T-rex proteins, the researchers said, uncovered new evidence of a link between dinosaurs and birds, a widely held but contentious hypothesis. Three of

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It's name is Pork: the Other White Meat. You owe it to yourself to read this stomach-turning article about industrial hog farming:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12840743/porks_dirty_secret_the_nations_top_hog_producer_is_also_one_of_americas_worst_polluters/printHoly Yuck...

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...he's on to something. Matt Taibbi, of Rolling Stone, writes about the dynamic of hatred that is replacing news and political discussion in America. I wish I didn't agree with him, but he's right.http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12984925/the_low_post_a_look_back_on_the_birth_of_the_hate_era/printWhy the dusty, parched Hell won't Blogger let me paste in URL's to the weblink screen

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I'm a driver; I'm a winner...  Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

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Huh!  According to whatever the hell a widget is, I can now post to my long-negected-lamented blog from the dashboard function of Sarah's and my new MacBook computer.  Pretty slick!  I'm in the Temescal Cafe, and thanks to iTunes' complete lack of respect for personal privacy I'm piggy-backing onto the soul-revealing musical library of some joker named Greg Hottinger.  Of course, I'm sure my new

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Spaightwood Galleries formerly occupied a large Victorian house at the corner of Spaight and Few, just across the street from Orton Park, and pretty much equidistant between Sarah's and my two Madison apartments.I think the gallery has moved to New York--it's definitely not in Madison any more. The link above takes you to the prints from Rouault's Miserere series--really quality images.

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Of course I'll wait to update this damn thing until the end of the semester, when all the shit I've been putting off for the last few weeks and months is cascading down on me like a fountain of lukewarm Coors Light. After Tuesday, things will be a little less hectic, but frankly I'm just looking ahead to the end of the week. If anyone has any ideas about applying a psychoanalytic method of art

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I think my friend E-Fantastico's nightmares might look a little like this:Carpet Caterpillars are apparently on a rampage in Sweden, relentlessly creating haunting, Christo-like tableaus for the aesthetic enjoyment of those cold, lonely Vikings. Thank you, Caterpillars, thank you for making the world a stranger place!(I found the original post at boingboing.net)

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My Dad and his buddies spend a couple of weekends a year up north at Bill's cabin in Bayfield, WI, puttering and being guys. They've started a Poplar-influencing project, bending saplings into art, which I think is way cool. So do these guys, who are making living houses out of bent trees. Here's a more recent post linking to an interview with arborsculptor Richard Reames:

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Freaky Russian sculptures are the proof.

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Bandai!

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But I think I need to take a couple minutes to let this news sit. In the meantime, here's something I found linked to on Boingboing.net: The Day the Cow Sneezed, one of my favorite books when I was a kid, is in fact a lost artistic treasure!

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One for the little bitty baby who was born in Bethlehem. Sitting in my room in the early afternoon, listening to Nina Simone with bright California sun and cool breezes coming in the windows, and I got hit by a bolt of lightning. Our friends Keith and June just had their baby. Welcome to the world, Lillian Hayley. Wow.The topic of Keith's email was "My daughter, Lillian Hayley Epstein" and

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One google later, I have spotted the elusive Frunchy lurking in the thickets of PlayFeed.ComHe's easier to spot if you look for his distinctive markings, ie: his nom de blog "Michael Cardiff". Very cool stuff, and very psyched for tha Eff-Dawg.

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We leave Oakland tonight at 11:30 on a red-eye bound for Portland, Maine. Not so psyched. I'm feeling a little over-traveled, and under-quality-time-with-Sarah-ed. I couldn't even think of a less-awkward way to make that sentence happen (or this one, it would seem). Sarah's school just had their Medicine Show yesterday, and the illustrious Frunch and I drove up to hang out and check out the

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-1150693902761434122006-06-18T21:37:00.000-07:002006-06-18T22:11:42.786-07:00

Sometimes I forget that we're on foreign turf here...especially with the abnormally wet spring out here in California keeping things unusually green. But, alas, the dry and crustiness is setting in at last. We've been living here for almost a year already--unbelievable. Time goes faster and faster. And without the colors of fall, the snow of winter, the explosion of spring and the

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10957864851678847056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-1146762241238816142006-05-04T09:59:00.000-07:002006-05-04T10:04:01.250-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen, Josh Orton! How's about that! Former high school compadre Jorton is writing a blog for Huffington Post, and Executive Producer of The Majority Report With Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo! Josh attended the much-discussed Dinner, and filed this report from DC. A short excerpt:"Here were some of the most dangerous men in recent US history, and everyone seemed content to

Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565291220578579683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710907.post-1146644066668052612006-05-03T01:12:00.000-07:002006-05-03T01:14:26.666-07:00

Housemate E-Fantastico has some great photos of our house Beltane celebration on her blog. Follow the above link--well worth the checking out.

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We were interrupted from our important work of finding queer readings of biblical texts by the cries of, "Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up--you're on my foooooooot!!!!"The windows of the classroom were open to Ridge Rd. and Euclid Ave, and a young woman whose foot had just been run over. During break, it was clear from the two police motorcycles, the firetruck, and the ambulance, that she

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