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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Meditating in Places
Apple bag in a Muslim prayer room A hospital has this room next to their chapel and I meditated there.
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Harriman State Park Escape Valve
It’s Saturday at noon. (Dateline!) Somehow we managed to stuff two backpacks with a change of clothes, some gourmet provender from West Side Market, a tent and the rest, and drive up to Harriman State Park which is a 45 minute drive from Manhattan. Bear Mountain is there and a couple of crowded car-camping sites [...]
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Throwing a Party? Fascist!
Pandagon and Digby confront the growing meme that Obama and his fans represent a rising onslaught of American fascism. We have to recognize this and understand it. There is a very concerted and completely ahistorical effort to make “fascism” synonymous with “popularity.” As Jesse Taylor notes: On the one hand, it’s an awful abuse of [...]
The Urge to Define Surge Success
This video at TPM prompted me to haul out one of my old DJ flyers. (Yes, that’s from 2007.) Over at Kos, there are a couple of posts spelling out the conflicting accounts citing the recent GAO report and other sources on whether the surge has really succeeded or not. Even as the White House [...]
Robots and Sunglasses
In which I shamelessly post in the style of This Recording…. I was watching Westworld (1973) a few weeks ago and a couple of images at the beginning of the movie struck me. Obviously, they’re the same guy/robot and the implication is that they’re both robot pilots guiding the unsuspecting tourists to their doom at [...]
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For a Good Time, Twirl Your Camera
I split my time between the moon and the water I dream of a method of curing all diseases. In any case, the psychological ones. – Salvador Dali’s diary
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Just Passing Through
wake up and see blue Pull the race car drivers out before they can throw the first pitch. OH HEY. This Recording nails Françoise Hardy.
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Anchors Aweigh On That Magazine Cover
Somehow the Peking appears to be sinking After hmm, 3 days of fallout from the New Yorker cover, Dowd today uses the opportunity to yet again call Obama an elitist for not having the required sense of humor to “get it.” Sure they could’ve reacted with a lighter touch but I’m mostly on the “what’s [...]
Calling All Celebrities