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Summer Schedule
Posting will be erratic until mid-August!
| June 29, 2009 |
- Saw the first part in the New Yorker but not really
interested. R. Crumb's doing the Bible, or at least Genesis, and
you can see what it's like on
this
French site.
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The
blue and the green is a perplexing optical illusion.
- "Ponyo" is the new Miyazaki and
previews in
English are now available.
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| June 25, 2009 |
"People are already texting about it, remembering his greatest
moments," said 17-year-old Delmar Dualeh.
Kathleen Magnaye of New York was at Los Angeles' Venice Beach when she
received a frantic call from her boyfriend. She raced to Jackson's house
with her 14-year-old sister to take photos.
from AP news,
Hundreds
of Jackson fans converge on hospital |
| June 24, 2009 |
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Winding down at my Sunnyvale apartment, moving everything into the
storage unit again, just like last summer -- although the plan is to
hang around my parents' house, for July and most of August I'll have
no fixed address. I'll miss this apartment, although it has some serious
flaws. Getting a new one upon my return shouldn't be difficult, unlike
a year ago there's For Rent signs all over the place, meaning a lower
rent should be part of the deal, as well.
Location
Independent has information for those who'd adapt a nomadic
lifestyle, useful even for part-timers like myself.
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| June 15, 2009 |
- One of the characters in this week's Straight Dope,
Who
made money in the 1929 stock market crash, was one
Jesse
Lauriston Livermore also known as the
Boy Plunger. Both of those mention his marriage to
Harriet Metz Noble, whose previous four husbands had all committed
suicide... and then, just after Thanksgiving
1940, Livermore joined the club. Found some
speculation
(how could she get a date even after #2?) but not much else
about this woman Cecil called the Black Widow.
- A new gadget many will find
useful -- a
USB
microwave.
- If that image previous is unfamiliar, perhaps you've never seen
Totoro? Could
always check
catbus
in the wikipedia for more information
but it has
no illustration. Remember, adults can't see it.
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| June 12, 2009 |
Asako took
this
picture and a few others when I had
a little pancake luncheon the other day, the
Japanese girls getting the full WaffleMeister
experience with the old family sourdough recipe.
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| June 8, 2009 |
Spent many hours recently maintaining this site,
including long-overdue updates to the top-level
Miscellaneous and
Prose/Stories pages (which should
maybe be combined at some point, but not yet, and maybe never).
A major task, now completed, was the addition of a
local archive file of my big
trip last summer, copied over from blogspot and augemnted
with more photos, also implementing my father's suggestion of
making it chronological rather than the customary web-log
style of last post on top.
Standing around in Borders yesteray reading a report on
"The Soul of Japan" in the current issue of
Adbusters, #83.
Unfortunately that article isn't available online but issue #81
had something else in the same vein, also by Roland Nozomu Kelts:
Big
In Japan, which concerns a newly-popular 1929 novel by Takaji
Kobayashi called Kanikosen (or The Crab-Canning Ship.)
Also reading The Limits of Power by Andrew Bacevich
after hearing him
on "Forum"
last week. No real info at that link except an MP3 of the
entire interview, if you're so inclined. He clarifies ideas
of my own, about how Reagan screwed up everything (although the
mess we're in is really of our own making). We had a chance 30
years ago, but the masses had no interest in President Carter's
suggestion that we tighten our belts and live within our means.
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