February 2008
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“adverse possession” is a phony, legalistic way of justifying theft + discrimination
Reading: “SOF Observed” (http://tinyurl.com/2rz86a)
Introducing the Young Ones! →
Taking Play Seriously
speakingoffaith: Trent Gilliss, Online Editor Our program on the spirit of play continues to garner attention. This time Krista’s appearance at the New York Public Library with Stuart Brown is the entry point for Robin Marantz Henig’s long-form piece in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. The program’s trajectory has been a curious one, with a long tail no doubt. I watched the PUSH participants...
researching ways to connect tom stoppard play and slav the ukrainian’s bunker mentality and horror of his mama’s thirst for religion.
KT would prefer to blog for penguin books, which gets no traffic, than for SOF Observed. So frustrating…
“Rule #27 for media aficionados: never ever ever trust a company that embeds the...”
– — from Rex Sorgatz’s fimoculous twitterfeed at 02:53 PM February 11, 2008 There’s a powerful contingent at APM that are embedded exactly like this. It’s crazy.
researching ways to connect tom stoppard play and slav the ukrainian’s bunker mentality and horror of his mama’s thirst for religion.
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The Association of Religion Data Archives →
speakingoffaith: Trent Gilliss, Online Editor I know, I know. The title of this post doesn’t necessarily grab you like a YouTube video labeled “puppies do backflips on spinning wheel in lake.” But if you look beneath the hood of this Dodge Dart, you’ll find an amazing amount of information and some telling graphics. And, you don’t have to be a researcher or a pollster to appreciate this data...
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"The City at Night" →
I was unaware of the term flaneur until I read a fetching travel memoir by Edmund White disclosing the pleasures of walking in the untraveled alleys and back vias of Paris. Kate Pullinger is the best kind of flaneur — one who walks to be free of the bonds of fear and continues to grow into her adulthood, and thereby retain her childlike innocence. A lovely essay from the Guardian Unlimited.
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WatchFrozen Grand Central These cats conjure up some great skits in public places. The stunts enlisting masses of people to simultaneously play out an idea — like this one when everybody goes static in the secular narthex of Grand Central Station or depants on the subway — absolutely kill me.