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miércoles, febrero 27, 2002
martes, febrero 26, 2002
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linkydink "A less benign reason why colleges are so politically correct is because leftists in many academic departments will not hire outside their intellectual gene pool. If a corporation uses political criteria in hiring its profits will suffer and its owners will complain. Since colleges are not actually owned by anyone, few complain when they sacrifice their teaching mission for politics." an article by my econ prof.
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linkydink whew. that article didn't really sit right with me, although i can't quite pinpoint why. here are a few amusing points i noticed:
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linkydink "At any rate, there’s no need to sweat it. The LGBT activists have everything under control, and lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and intersexuals everywhere are eternally grateful and better off for it. Or are they? Is it really possible that all of the individuals in these disparate groups collectively known as the gay or LGBT community want and believe in the same things? Must every non-heterosexual come out of the closet and assume an identity based on his or her sexual preference? Does every gay man in Sacramento want domestic partnership benefits, the right to serve in the military, a slot on the Kings cheerleading squad, and a gift certificate from International Male?"
lunes, febrero 25, 2002
sábado, febrero 23, 2002
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linkydink Whilst wandering aimlessly on the inter-net, putting off dealing with moving my stuff out of my old apartment and into an as-of-yet unrented storage space, I came across Wil Wheaton's web log. Who is Wil Wheaton, you ask? Well, he's a semi-struggling actor in LA, and he runs a fairly cool weblog. And writes comedy, and does improv sometimes, and generally seems like a cool guy. Oh yeah, and he was in some show on TV that a lot of people watched.
viernes, febrero 22, 2002
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linkydink New York Times: "With the economy still struggling, layoffs increasing and corporate America wary about the near future, students who complete their undergraduate degrees this year face the worst job market for college graduates in nearly a decade."
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linkydink Holy smoke, I am so there to see Busta "Where all my bitches at?!" Rhymes play a show at Smith College!! Bring it on. I am apparently Gandalf or Saruman, depending on my mood.
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linkydink heya! i just found out Busta Rhymes is playing at Smith on sun, march 10 at 8pm. tickets are $14. i can get two (including my own, but i probably won't go)(i can probably procure more than two tickets, anyway). any takers? anyone interested is welcome to crash in my room afterwards. (on a bed, even.) look! i'm Mitzi/Agent Smith!
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linkydink so I'm signed up for a zine class this semester and since the school foots the bill for xeroxes anyone who wants to receive an original C-Dawg zine should email me their address.
miércoles, febrero 20, 2002
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linkydink "Yet the truly fascinating thing about Surrealism is that American cultural life as we know it today would not be possible without it. Most of our visual culture, including music videos, television, and advertising, remains permeated by its typically disjunctive imagery, its knee-jerk desire to shock, and its fixation upon sexuality and the subconscious."
martes, febrero 19, 2002
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linkydink i spent the past four days in Washington DC at the True Spirit conference "an annual conference for all gender variant people on the masculine spectrum of the transgender experience and significant others, friends, families & allies (SOFFAs) of all gender variations and sexual orientations." it was... interesting, to say the least. educational. somewhat disorienting, somewhat alienating, somewhat comforting. made me both appreciate and question exclusive spaces. got me thinking about intersex and disability/deaf issues. drove eleven hours yesterday and slept only four. my head's still whirling. more later.
lunes, febrero 18, 2002
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linkydink "SCRATCH is a feature length film about the hip-hop DJ and today's turntablist movement. From the South Bronx in the 70's to San Francisco today, the world's best scratchers, diggers, party-rockers and producers celebrate beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl."
sábado, febrero 16, 2002
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linkydink Gilles Peterson's website has a new DJ Shadow track! It's called 'Monosylabik', from a new album due out in May. I say "Wow." Check it out. Related musicness: Head over to Warp Records to give a track from the new Boards of Canada album a listen; Yum, motherfucker! My Audiogalaxy action has been burning a hole in my ethernet lately.
viernes, febrero 15, 2002
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linkydink I need to tell everyone that Tuesday mornings I learn Java programming at 9:00 and Javanese gamelan at 10:30. I love the java jive and it loves me.
miércoles, febrero 13, 2002
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linkydink I'm blogging from Ft Myers florida, where I'll be for the next three weeks. I'm living and working with my aunt and at Robb and Stucky, a home furnishing's store and design firm. There's a model home that needs to be ready for presentation next week, and my job is to make it look lived in. I spent most of yesterday pickingn through magazines trying to find pictures of people who looked similar, and make up an imaginary family complete with pets, kids, and vacation photos. Then I get to hunt for knicknacks, books, clothes, and anything else one might find in a regular old house. I brought my laptop, but i've can only use aol dialup service, and for some reason, it won't let me go on the acual internet, only to aol services like e-mail and AIM, so I can only check blogs, webpages, news etc... from work. which reminds me, does anyone know anything about what went on yesterday at Fairfield U? I cant find much about it and my surfing time is limited, all I heard were vage details about some kind of hostage situation... what happened?
martes, febrero 12, 2002
sábado, febrero 09, 2002
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linkydink Had a talk about some of this stuff with a new friend who was at the WEF protests. Her take was: That the WEF protest was more symbolic than anything else. They weren't trying to shut down the meeting, like at the WTO; the meeting was more symbollic than political. Instead, they were trying encourage questioning of what it stood for. For instance, why was there a policeman at every Starbucks and McDonalds? Who is the city trying to protect? I've had this weird relationship with political protest for the past few years that I can best describe as intruiged and wondrous, yet cynical. Maybe I'll turn into a crazed poltical activist and use my parents' money to follow the WTO around the world throwing myself in front of police-tanks. That'd be a fine way to put my Compsci degree to good use.
jueves, febrero 07, 2002
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linkydink Um. Well. Yeah. I seem to be wrong. Crap. Oh well. (dr claw voice) Next time, jimmy tones. Next time. (/dr claw voice) Unless somebody else has a compelling argument? Anybody? Bueller?
miércoles, febrero 06, 2002
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linkydink Well, first off, I don't think the happenings at the WEF were secret, were they? I think the media's had access to almost everything. I might be taking this out of context, but The New York Times records that "only one discussion, on the volatility of oil prices, was placed off the record, on the premise that comments by some participants could move markets..." The article that I quote this from seems to echo what I said in my last post: that the forum provided a place for world-leaders to express and encounter views they'd otherwise perhaps not have. Of course I get heeby-jeebies about secret sketchy deals between The Man and The Other Man, but the WEF seems more like a celebrity galla than a secret meeting room. Then again, if they are really made in a secret meeting room somewhere, you can't really go and protest them as they happen, can you? And, really, how much of a serious exchange of ideas can there be with Heidi Klum and Elton John in attendence? Is anyone really listening to anyone who's less powerful than them? Did you know Herbie Hancock was there, too? I think that's cool.
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linkydink I did not see the NYTimes coverage. And to be fair, not all the coverage was as stupid as I make out, only the worst of it was. Responding to your DA - Sure, anyone, including the world's powerful, have the right to meet together and discuss things. But when it's 3000 of the world's most powerful people, meeting to discuss world economic policy, I'd really strongly prefer they did it in public. And when I say public, I mean televised. Corporate leaders do not want the same things I want, and I'd prefer that if they get privileged access to lawmakers and etc, that at least I (or my representative at least), get to watch. Perhaps I am confused, but it was not my impression that either academics or second-and-third-world leaders were in attendance, except possibly as part of corporate and first-world leaders retinues. I would love to be shown I'm wrong, however.
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linkydink Fuz- I will say that the New York Times, as a mainstream news outlet, did an admirable job of providing some serious and relatively balanced coverage of the protests, both in terms of their issues and (lack of) volatility. Re. The Man Keeping Us Down- To play Devil's Advocate, shouldn't those with the power in the world have a right to meet together and discuss things? A series of panel-discussions where first-world politicians and corporate leaders can exchange views and information with academics and second-and-third-world leaders strikes me as actually a good thing. But maybe that's a little idealistic.
martes, febrero 05, 2002
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linkydink hmm... WEF... I'm pretty sure I'm agin it. And unless I don't count as a friend, you can kind of make that 3. I wasn't in NYC specifically for the protest, nor did I go for very long, but I want, and was glad of it. The WEF, so far as I can tell, is The Man, and is very subtly working to Keep Us Down. I was wicked sick, and in NYC for job interviews, but a friend and I went to the WEF "Pageant" for most of an hour, which was kind of cool. There were a lot of cops. I mean, a LOT of cops. That was kind of frightening. More frightening to me was the media coverage of the rally, both pre- and post-. pre- was constantly implying that the rally was an incredibly dangerous place to be (only true if you're claustrophobic, so far as I could tell), and the post- barely mentioned the issues, largely going for the flashy image of 100 police officers on motorcycles. Which was, admittedly, real flashy.
lunes, febrero 04, 2002
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linkydink Actually, for once, I have no opinion at all! None! I can't think of a single opinion about the WEF. I have become very politically apathetic. I've been following the Forum and the protests in the New York Times, but when asked about them I can do little besides shake my head and shrug. An opinion about my opinionlesness: I think it has a lot to do with living in the US at the moment. I base this theory off of two facts: One: That when I had been away from the US, in Australia for six months, I was as politically excited and active as I've ever seen myself, even going so far as to ocasionally attend anti-Nike protests and the like. And, two: That the protests in NYC this weekend were so sparsley attended (15,000 by liberal estimates), in sharp contrast to the massive 150,000-person protests in Genoa last July. I don't really like blaming my opinions on where I live; it kind of undermines my supposed freedom to believe what I want. But right now I'm too apathetic to really care.
domingo, febrero 03, 2002
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linkydink two of my friends went to NYC this weekend to protest the World Economic Forum. even so, i'm not very well informed about the whole business. anyone got any opinions?
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