These are examples of the eerie spraypaint markings that I saw on many houses in nola when we were there on tour. They were one of the more haunting reminders of all the tragedy. I found these photos on flickr.
dim sum
My friend Patrick made blog post about the lack of good dim sum options in central PA and better alternatives in DC.
This is the comment I’d make if his neat homespun wiki/blog software would let me:
One very prominent childhood memory is eating dim sum at a frantic restaurant in Toronto’s Chinatown with my Dad’s side of the family. Relations with them always seemed tense, but they definitely smoothed over food. My dad is the same way, I guess. One time, my band went out for vegetarian dim sum in Philadelphia, along with my parents. My father is typically stern and frugal to a fault, but during the meal, he was super-sociable and at the end, he paid for everyone. This left one bandmate asking, “What the hell happened to your dad?”
podcast #1
So I decided that I would try to make a little podcast radio show. This is the first attempt. The idea is to pick songs that kind of follow the things I’ve been doing and thinking about. The first show is songs that I discovered or thought of from my most recent trip out of town, to Detroit at the beginning of the month, and things I’ve heard in the last few weeks from around Bloomington before I leave town again tomorrow.
Set 1 – Detroit
- Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Heatwave – Motown Legends Girl Groups Comp (Motown)
- Boxcars – Shadows – Demo CDR (Self-released)
- Violence and Tragedy – Above All – Breaking Ground Mixtape Comp (Detroit Summer Collective)
- The Gibbons – The War On Terrorism Part One – Hope, Inc. (Salinas)
- Blair – Into Darkness – Jet Black White Noise (Self Released?)
Set 2 – Bloomington
- Matt & Kim – Silver Tiles – S/T CDR (that comes in the envelope with stamps, stains and postmarks) (Self-released)
- Shapes & Sizes – Islands Gone Bad – Self-titled? (Self-released?)
- Gal & Lad – Gardener – Demo CDR (Self-released)
- Lemuria – Piranha – Self-titled (Art of the Underground/Standstill)
- Mt. Gigantic – Raechel and her Children – Old Smiler (Friends & Relatives/Harlan)
- Ganglion – Internal Compustion – Of The Deep (Self-released)
To listen, use the links below:
Things I learned today
The domestic chicken evolved from the Red Jungle Fowl, originally found in south Asia.
hospedaje = hosting (web) in castellano
prison issues articles
I made a couple of posts to the blog at pagestoprisoners.org about media that I came across or that Megan e-mailed to me from spring break:
awake, misguided
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all to many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world-wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.”
“When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missles and misguided men.”
– MLK Jr.
Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West
This radio piece is pretty awesome and its pretty interesting to hear someone articulate pretty reasonable ambivalence to someone that me, and most of the folks that I know go kind of gahgah over.
Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West:
19-year-old Laquoia Simmons had a big night a while back: she met and interviewed Professor Cornel West, the famous ‘interpreter of the African-American experience,’ advocate for social justice, philosopher and critic. She reflects on her trip to Sonoma State University, and discusses what it was like to be an ‘at-risk’ young woman meeting a writer who writes so much about the so-called ‘at-risk’ population.
CAIR Coalition video on immigrant detention
game
I stumbled across this random blog post when I googled for “triffling” because I was curious about the spelling. My friend once told me, half jokingly, that she thinks everyone is looking for a hustle. Reading this piece of someone’s life, like a voyeur, I realize that I’m seriously outclassed when it comes to deviousness. From the blog:
I say “Why do you keep him around, if you know he shady?”
She says “Think about this. If the police busted my house today, Who are they most likely to believe? A girl with no serious record or this dude that just got out of jail and is on probation.
I look at her in awe. She says “Its all part of the game. Even when people think they are winning and getting over, they are not. They see me as a dumb ass and think I dont notice this shit, when everything I do is a part of a plan.
Boxcar Inventory Development Notes
Feature Request
- Books from Nebraska Book Company and MBS should always show up as used when entered into the inventory. (Also, I need to create a query to fix the existing entries.) The reason why this needs to be done is because currently, the inventory automatically enters all books from distributors as new, but with textbooks this isn’t the case. This is deceiving for the online inventory.
- Add multiple inventory ecit form. Essentially this would allow you to change everything that you can in the inventory edit form.
- Add pickup option for shipping in the online store (charge no shipping)
2006-04-10
- On Abbey’s request, display subject instead of section in check-in form..
2006-03-15
- Based on Joe and request added the section of books to be checked in so they can easily be organized as they’re being checked in for shelving.
2006-03-13
- From Erin’s request, made the top sellers queries be for the last 2 months. I renamed them Last Two Month’s Top Book Sellers and Last Two Month’s Top Comic/Zine Sellers.
2006-03-10
- Based on something that Colin mentioned to me, Zines now show up in the inventory report, even if they are priced
2006-03-09
- Added checkbox in check_in_order form to designate order that is a special order.
- Zines and books in the Children’s section no longer show up in the discount fiction/non-fiction inventory report.
- Added two queries named ‘This Month’s Top Book Sellers’ and ‘This Month’s Top Comic/Zine Sellers’ that do what they’re named.
- I returned the book Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Development (ISBN:0-672-31484-3) to the library. It was actually really helpful.