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univerCity
The Socratic Method Man
04.22.04 | Permalink | 3 CommentsToday, we were discussing the Khilafat Movement (1920) [i do not have a good link here because the stuff on the internet is terrible. I will write up a short thing if interest is shown by anyone remotely interested]. I have read and thought about this mass movement in India and I was hoping that [...]
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talkies
Edmund Husserl’s PussyCat
Yesterday, we were supposed to go see Russ Meyer’s magnum opus Faster, PussyCat Kill! Kill! at Doc Films - which is having a banner quarter (kudos to the volunteers-check the calendar here). I come home around 4ish and I am not even tired. Yet, when Eduardo called me at 6 to go, I was [...]
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homistan
On Clans and Communities
04.21.04 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWhat would be an acclaimed blood line in the US? A source of pride and embellishment? Bushes? Kennedys? Rockafellers? There is, at least in the north-east, an interest in tracing one’s lineage back to, say, the Mayflower. The true blue blood bestows a degree of respectability over the individual. Our President’s clan came on the [...]
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stardust
MakeOver Nation
I am stunned by this makeover madness on the telly. In my nightly crawl of cable, I see people get makeovers for their cars, their houses, their partners, their careers, their pets, their face, their bodies.
On and on and on.
Americans have given up. Thrown their hands up in the air, and yelled to the [...] -
imperial watch
Conspiracy Theory Alert!!
Grapevine says that in all the hubhub in Fallujah, the US is shipping WMDs into Iraq in trucks with fake Saudi and Jordanian license plates. I would never pay attention to that. I maintain that people are too damn dumb to conceal ANYTHING. When they do try, they come up with the most implausible scenarios [...]
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not baseball
El Pibe de Oro
04.19.04 | Permalink | 6 CommentsNews today that Diego Maradona is under intensive care after suffering from respitory failure - maybe the result of an overdose.
To a generation, such as mine, which never saw Pele play live, Maradona was the greatest ever.
World Cup 1986: We dragged the teevee out into the back garden. Amma would go to sleep and [...] -
imperial watch
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Blasting loud rock (what, no LimpBizkit?) and insults at the Fallujah uprisers is the current state of psyops in Iraq.
At night, the psychological operations unit attached to the Marine battalion here sends out messages from a loudspeaker mounted on an armored Humvee. On Thursday night, the crew and its Arabic-language interpreter taunted fighters, [...] -
optical character recognition
Orientalist details
Details - The Most Irrelevant Magazine Ever - pissed off Asians in their April issue [full disclosure: in 1993, i had a Details subscription that lasted 8 months]. The culprit was a Gay or Asian? style guide featuring a metrosexual (!) oriental and blurbs like “A bonsai ass requires delicate tending”. Indeed.
Needless to say, the [...] -
not baseball
Inning and 131 runs
Pakistan allowed India to come to their house, eat everything in the fridge, watch their dvds, make long distance phone calls, misplace the mail and then borrow a couple of hundred for just a day or two until the payroll check clears.
Then India packed up the open can of whup-ass and boarded the Samjhota Express [...] -
univerCity
Good Day to Become a Doctor (of Philosophy)
It is gorgeous outside and I have babysitting duties. I am really hoping that the weather stays good this weekend because some Lamb Kabobs would be just fine on the grill.
[dayspoiler] WHY do people from whom I recall a book recall it right back? Why? I need it. If you need it soooo bad. BUY [...]
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