- So, I wonder, on “Lost”, when are they going to stumble upon the mummy of Mr. Roarke? #
- Do any dare call it conspiracy and terrorism? @KGWNewsChannel8 Suspects spent 15 years plotting Woodburn bank bombing… http://bit.ly/n8yT7 #
- Oh, hey, that’s awesome. By postponing my trip to the bank by 1 day, I got to contribute to my bank’s recovery fund. Cool. #
- Apparently, there’s a rooster that’s moved into the neighborhood. And, my cat, surprisingly, couldn’t seem to care less. #
- Really? A pretty expensive looking cigarette ad-packet directly to me in the mail today. Poor demog. Oddly it smells like a new OS/2 manual. #
- @portlandmercury I like you, I do. But, sending many duplicate tweets is kinda lame. Fix that. Kthxbai! in reply to portlandmercury #
- The audio on comcast’s HD keeps dropping out. #
- Which, you know, would be fine if it were during the commercials … #
- Comcast is all “Someday you’ll see who is calling on your TV! and your Computer!” … someday? like, 10 years ago? And, I don’t want that. #
- Thinking about someday seeing Kyoto in the spring. #
- @unicursal I’d be afraid to find out … in reply to unicursal #
- @unicursal I’m Count Iblis! Muahahaha! in reply to unicursal #
- @unicursal “Follow me! Follow me … er, on Twitter, or maybe RSS … or something” in reply to unicursal #
- Man, the appearance of Count Iblis would make an AWESOME cliff hanger at the end of BSG, leading into “The Plan”. #
- RT @novaspivack Tweetworks is interesting. Groups tool for Twitter, with threading. http://bit.ly/MfcFg #
- An e-list I was trying to work up to unsubscribing from just randomly unsubscribed me claiming I was bouncing. Okay, fine. I’m cool with it. #
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Feb 28, 2009Tweets for 2009-02-28virus to virus“Every time I sneeze, cough or blow my nose; my cat is all, ‘Dude. WTF?’” “That’s why they call it cattitude. Freak out that feline by starting to Gazoon High Twizzle.” “GAZOON HIGH TWIZZLE is a mondegreen of GESUNDHEIT WHISTLE” “The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in her essay ‘The Death of Lady Mondegreen,’ which was published in Harper’s Magazine in November 1954. In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th century ballad ‘The Bonnie Earl O’ Murray.’” “A girl meets a guy in a subway station. Sort of. He whistles masterfully every night, she keeps coming back just to listen. They never speak, but there’s something between them.” “This library is working toward replacing a 40-year-old building that’s seen better days. All profit from the novel goes to the library as follows. It’s a snap to change the novel’s price, so depending on the day that you buy …” “A second effort, just underway, is downright flaky and convoluted, but may also bring widespread attention to our library as the one that helped create a household word and change etiquette as we know it. The explanation (convoluted, remember) is: My wife and our teen sons wrote a novel together and self-published it. We attributed our novel to pseudonym MANDY GREEN …” links for 2009-02-28
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Feb 26, 2009Tweets for 2009-02-26
imaginary oxymoronThe thing is that no market is free. All transactions are conditioned by who has power at the table. Therefore, all markets, being places where transactions take place are subject to those with power; further, the market as a collective entity is conditioned by larger systems of power which govern the collection of transaction sub-systems. Further, the phrase ‘free market’ is just marketing. (Marketing being its own propaganda system, of power over information.) What people ask for when they ask for a ‘free market’ is a market which is subject only to those within their own tribe, and further that it’s their tribe or the highway. What they mean by ‘free market’ is ‘my market’ and ‘not your market’. Advocates of a ‘free market’ are actually seeking a market with specific conditions. Thus it’s not just an oxymoron, but is actually, quite simply, a lie. The notion ‘free market’ is an imaginary oxymoron. To approach the notion of a ‘free market’ is also an imaginary journey to somewhere other than where the proponents really wish to go. If one were to approach the free market, one would not have taxes, sure. One would also not have government subsidies to businesses within the industrial-military-prison-security complex, a leviathan to which quite a few ‘free market’ proponent have sold their souls. There’s plenty of murk still. Because although the loss of the industrial-military-prison-security complex and corporate welfare looks pretty good to me; one would also, of course, not have bank bailouts and no social security and no ‘New Deal’. And, maybe other stuff that we may or may not agree on, but that advocates of a ‘free market’ would probably like to keep, such as corporate indemnity and corporate person-hood and patents and copyright and the legal system and the stock market. All gone. There’s a lot of everything for everyone lose. I think there’s things we could agree on being sorely missed, such as that one would not have the highway and freeway system. One would also not have the Internet. And so much more. An environment without conditions would simply be closer to a jungle of violence. The only time that a market would form is as an expression of someone’s power over a thing they wanted to exchange, and the relative window of powerlessness of someone seeking that thing to not simply take it away without an exchange they could afford; as part of a transaction other than violence. When people advocate for a ‘free market’ what they mean is they want a ‘power market’ where they are the hegemon in power, or, at the very least, where they are protected by a power friendly to them in a hegemony. And, that just means they want, not to change the system; but, quite obviously to simply change who’s in power. So, to those seeking a ‘free market’, “I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe” [see] which is to say, it’s not what you really want. You’re selling and being sold a bill of goods. Don’t believe the hype. Caveat Emptor. links for 2009-02-26
Feb 25, 2009Tweets for 2009-02-25
Walking Home at Madonnathon on Feb 26th at 7pmAnna Fritz sent out an e-mail today about two shows that Walking Home will be playing as part of a benefit for In Other Words at Hollywood Theatre on Thu, Feb 26th at 7pm. There’s also a show at In Other Words the next day. In Other Words says, “Madonna covers all night long, so get your costume on!”
Also, don’t forget Portland Cello Project is doing a marathon of shows at Mississippi. Feb 24, 2009Tweets for 2009-02-24
The Invisible LibraryThe Invisible Library is dead, long live the Invisible Library! RIP, (1999-2006). The curator of the Invisible Library, Malibu Lake Branch, Mr. Barrington, sent me an e-mail pointing out that the original, nicely designed, has disappeared from the ‘Net, except via the wayback machine. I’d posted about it a while ago as an example of crypto-cataloging. I miss the still interesting site design, but the catalog is not lost nor dead. James Hay is maintaining a continuation of the original Invisible Library preserved from the wayback it seems, with additions. There seems to be a somewhat active livejournal community for The Invisible Library. There is what appears to simply be a single snapshot of a catalog for an Invisible Library posted on Aug ‘08. And, finally, Mr. Barrington and Ms. Fayaway’s own Invisible Library, Malibu Lake Branch.
“A traditional book is released in editions. When a work is revised or updated, a new edition is released. These revised or updated editions usually offer small, incremental changes, such as a new preface or introduction, a new chapter, or small changes to the content. An unbook is more like software … An unbook is mindware: software for the mind.”
“Why unbook’d you say? Well because most of these stories are not going to get published, but they sure are fun to write…. one sentence at a time.” “Hopefully you’ll find the information useful and I hope these images and words evoke emotions, inspire ideas and move people to take actions for a better world.” “The Invisibles is an ensemble piece which means every character relies on the one next to them to give full value in terms of what the script is trying to achieve.” “Each year, it is believed, thousands of young British Asian women are forced into marriages against their will. Those who resist face ostracism – or far worse.” “Invisible people cast invisible votes. Can’t count what you can’t see.” “Unfiltered, informal communications produced by communities of people who share an interest in a common subject or discipline. E-mail, personal conversations, conference papers, unpublished diaries, meeting minutes, phone calls, newsletters, memoranda, and other sources that may not pass through the usual publishing, broadcasting, and distribution channels.” “The Invisible College, an expanding circle of educators, fosters and promotes community service learning as an effective educational tool. The Invisible College recognizes the transforming power of service learning to involve the academy as a responsible and inclusive member of the diverse community.” (Despite that the source links to a 404, they’ve moved several times and are now here.) “As an entirely independent enterprise (and therefore free from the pressure to conform with consensus opinions) it provides a platform for new — and often controversial—ideas to get an airing. At the same time it encourages scientific standards of thinking and research in areas (such as pyramid studies) which have previously been bedevilled by woolly, ‘new-age’ thinking.” “The sonic terrain staked out by The Invisible College is a slippery one; their approach leaving the listener suspended in a nocturnal no-man’s land …” “Nothing to See Here” “I made this breakthrough not by learning facts about spiritual phenomena on the intellectual level, but by achieving a state of awareness and open-mindedness that enabled me to receive what my spirit guides were actually trying to communicate to me, rather than what my prejudiced and brainwashed conscious mind wanted to hear.” links for 2009-02-24
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