plsj field notes

2009

December
October 56
August 25
July 107
June 80
May 68
April 55
March 37
January 42

2008

June 88
May 79
April 63
March 81
January 16

2007

June 33
May 31
April 23
March 46
February
January
“Finally, as to my own books, I wish I could send you any of...”
— Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to...
Dec 31st

Words for the person who lives in my old...

Lies make baby Jesus cry. Sincerely, Anne
Dec 31st
Dec 31st
How to make machaca
Dec 28th

More reading

The New Yorker, July 14, 1951 The most encouraging word we have so far had about television came...
Dec 28th
I completed reading 104 books in 2007
Dec 28th
 Via Parson’s Internet Famous Class
Dec 28th
Dec 27th
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To...”
— Buckminster Fuller
Dec 27th
NY Times: For Girls, It’s Be Yourself, and Be...
Dec 23rd
“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is...”
— Bertrand Russell
Dec 23rd

Just thinking...

I suspect my defense would be far more entertaining if I could speak like Lucille Bluth: “I...
Dec 20th
Dec 20th
The Art of Moneygami. Wow.
Dec 20th
The temptation to perceive certain living...
Dec 20th
“To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy...”
— Timothy Healy
Dec 20th
Ben Fino-Radin’s software: “A soft...
Dec 20th
Critical Spatial Practice: Lesbian National Parks and...
Dec 20th

Who says young people today lack...

I’m happily surprised to learn that Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!) is...
Dec 19th
“Why do some graduate students take so long to finish what...”
— Chris M. Golde, an associate...
Dec 19th
Metaphor to Action Muriel Rukeyser Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform, who...
Dec 19th
Paul Klee - The Twittering Machine
Dec 19th
Altered books by Brian Dettmer
Dec 18th
Kathleen Lolley
Dec 13th
My business card is a ball of putty
Dec 13th
KnitML
Dec 12th
4bn euros for frontier research
Dec 12th
“The ability to throw out ideas that aren’t productive...”
— Lawrence Krauss (who has not,...
Dec 11th
Natalie Jeremijenko + Lawrence Krauss
Dec 11th
It’s a mug’s game “The curious thing about the cappuccino, I observed, is what a remarkably...
Dec 11th
3D generated object inspired by a piece of abstract...
Dec 11th
New York City, 1960 (via)
Dec 11th

Female circumcision

“The best evidence available at the moment suggests to me that the anthropologist Robert...
Dec 10th
The Proposition
Dec 9th
“[Our Western] feminist sisters insist on denying us this...”
— Fuambai Ahmadu, on female...
Dec 9th
Consider yourself lucky if you don’t remember Warrant’s Sweet Cherry Pie, but checking...
Dec 7th
“The engineering sensibility, which so often seeks to breed...”
— Rick Prelinger
Dec 7th
Dec 6th
“We still aren’t mature enough to adopt an openly...”
— Hugo Chávez
Dec 6th
Sufism may be powerful antidote to Islamic...
Dec 6th
“Bombard those in power with strategically well-selected,...”
— Slavoj Žižek
Dec 5th
PopMatters review of Adrian Tomine's...
Dec 4th
Dec 4th
The Grindhouse’s Greatest Hits
Dec 4th
“Rob Brezsny holds his own place next to other cultural shamans such as Robert Anton Wilson,...
Dec 4th
Flensted Mobile Five Viking Ships
Dec 4th
“We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our...”
— John Cage
Dec 1st
Someone should do a decent cultural analysis of PostSecret.
Dec 1st
Dec 1st
The Architecture of Parking
Dec 1st