December 2009
33 posts
Every time I come back home I marvel at the stacks. Not a library, per se. http://post.ly/G28J
Dec 24th
Editing @alanna_shaikh’s essay for @softweets while overlooking the Missouri River floodplain at @umary library. http://bit.ly/7ez939 #fb
Dec 23rd
“…in the hardest places, hope. Unprecedented strength.” /via @xenijardin
Dec 23rd
My video of Sitting Bull’s 22 hand-drawn pictographs narrated by a Smithsonian ethnographer I interviewed: http://bit.ly/8mGOMk. Feedback?
Dec 20th
End result of Holidazzle parade + dinner at Ike’s: puked on 2x by Boy-king, cold surf-and-turf takeout, + an abandoned Stella. #diningfiasco
Dec 20th
Most of this week’s been about exporting: video, audio, photos, illustrations, calendars, contacts… #fb
Dec 19th
Well, another poll where Minneapolis ranks in the top 5: http://bit.ly/68JTWn #fb
Dec 17th
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ListenLove stories like these, especially since it comes...
Dec 16th
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A brief clip of of archival audio (1946) about Sitting Bull’s signature that I found while doing research: http://bit.ly/74KWaZ #fb
Dec 15th
Lying awake trying to fight off this cold + sore throat while Lucian is sleep-singing “Oh Hanukkah. Oh Hanukkah. Light the menorah…” #fb
Dec 14th
I am really liking Bella’s centerpiece of pine cones (yes, hand-gathered), shafts of wheat, + fruit. Good god what is wrong with me. #fb
Dec 14th
What’s the going rate for a full cord of oak nowadays? #fb
Dec 12th
A 10-year-old on anti-psychotic drugs for 7 years? A 4-1 ratio of poorer children being medicated? It ain’t right. http://bit.ly/6jlqeD #fb
Dec 12th
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The song itself isn’t too bad, but the story is even better! From my SOF Observed post: “A Minor American Miracle”: Orrin Hatch’s Rockin’ Hanukkah Song Trent Gilliss, online editor A quick scan of this morning’s edition of the Tablet Daily Digest e-mail prompted me to read the lead article, “Hanukkah: A Guide for the Perplexed,” which was fun and quite helpful. And then I moved on. It...
Dec 11th
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Had a great interview with a Smithsonian ethnologist about a set of pictographs drawn by Sitting Bull in 1882. #fb
Dec 10th
RE: Mazel tov on reaching 84! I’m moved by your admission and find myself facing a similar quandary: respecting and re… http://disq.us/59bvc
Dec 8th
As you know, I cherish the midrash about mirrors. Well Lucian held one up, challenging me to see the beauty he sees. I couldn’t respond. #fb
Dec 8th
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Approaching Improv
Chose this photo for Nancy’s post because a) she needed a playful subject to ground her points and b) it’s Anoushka. Isn’t she absolutely delightful?! I’d love to see her perform sometime. Anoushka Shankar performs at the Wychwood Music Festival in 2007. (photo: Damian Rafferty/Fly) While listening to a classic SOF program, “Approaching Prayer” last week, I was struck...
Dec 8th
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“I started praying when I came to Treasury. At Goldman, I didn’t pray. Not once....”
– — —Neel Kashkari, as quoted in “The $700 Billion Man.” Known as the “bailout czar,” Kashkari was appointed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in October 2008 to head the Office for Financial Stability, which oversaw the $700 billion program that bought distressed assets from financial...
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“Speak yer mind but ride a fast horse” —Wagon Train Coffee Shop: http://bit.ly/5V39vV #fb
Dec 6th
Thanks to my 40th well-wishers, but today a birthday truly worth celebrating — our strapping little tank, Rainier (Raindog), turns two!
Dec 5th
RE: That’s a fine way to put it. Cheers. http://disq.us/5215i
Dec 5th
RE: Catherine, I am currently reading Niebuhr’s “The Irony of American History” again, but this time with a much more … http://disq.us/521dg
Dec 5th
Commented on "SOF Observed blog"
Catherine, I am currently reading Niebuhr’s “The Irony of American History” again, but this time with a much more contemplative approach rather than an information-gathering hoard fest. Reinie has an uncanny way of constantly challenging himself and identifying the necessary hypocrisy and paradoxes of nations and societies, and especially himself. Originally posted as a...
Dec 5th
A festoon of grackles, black iridescence bathed in morning light, hover the grass pecking at the remains of fall. #fb
Dec 4th
Kicked off my first day of being 40 by locking my keys in Black Thunder in the car park. Boys stranded at school. Oy. #fb
Dec 4th
Now contemplating if I should dive in and watch first episode of Mad Men — almost reticent with all the build-up by the UNIVERSE. #fb
Dec 4th
“…a history of good luck is no amulet for the future.” From Paula Butturini’s soon to be published book, “Keeping the Feast.” Buy it. #fb
Dec 4th
And so begins the final decade of my journey… May I eat these words. #fb
Dec 3rd
Chuckled to myself as I passed this sign outside of Butcher Block Meats in Mandan and thought of @jimgaffigan. http://bit.ly/8frNUR #fb
Dec 1st
audioBoo: Figuring out permissions for SOF http://boo.fm/b79907
Dec 1st
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Figuring out permissions for SOF
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Dec 1st