Category: PALOD

Hirsh Diamant recently posted something to TESCCRIER about which I found myself thinking a great deal. I have moved my response to TESCTALK, since that forum is intended for more conversational topics. I responded privately to Hirsh, but wanted, in part on Hirsh’s suggestion, to post something to the forums. On Mar 28, 2005, at…

Dr. Shiva in Seattle on Saturday Jul 25th (The Day Out of Time, interestingly) — Dear Friends and Colleagues– Want you to know that Dr. Vandana Shiva–a brilliant, articulate, and significant international voice, will be speaking on Sunday, July 25, at 2:30 pm in Kane Hall (U of W). We have just learned that she…

Turns out that the movie will be showing in Seattle. The film makers will be present, I assume on the 14th only, for questions and discussion. Some of the people at Antioch in the Center for Creative Change are talking about going at that time. Loews Cinemas – Uptown Opens: May 14, 2004 Show times:…

The movie What the Bleep is now in Tacoma at the Grand Cinema. Here’s the schedule and the blurb. — WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW!? (108 min, UNRATED) Amanda (Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God), a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to…

There’s this film you may have seen posters for around campus … and it’s being billed on its own website as a film for the cultural creatives, and it could be a much more accessible (but at a cost, I think) intro to the ideas of films like mindwalk. However, it’s still interesting and I…

It’s the end of my undergraduate career! I did a summative self evaluation, which I’ve posted to my website. I thought I send a link to you all, if you’re interested in taking a gander at that: For those of you graduating too, congratulations! For those that aren’t done yet, I can testify that there’s…

Hey, there, all. Now that the quarter is over, I’ve had a moment to catch my breath. I put my fall final, from Dissent, Injustice and the Making of America, online. I mention it because it carries forward some of the PALOD themes and things I was thinking about. There’s some definite palod-isms like “willing…

Okay, sorry, but this was too interesting. There’s a book out, by a consultant that lives in Walla Walla, called “The Blind Men and the Elephant: Mastering Project Work”, and here’s a review on Slashdot: Each participant on a collaborative project encounters a piece of that project, rarely the whole elephant. We grasp whatever we…

Time to annoy my community again! One of patrick’s wish list items for a theoretical 4th qtr was a book, “Creating a World that Works for All” by Sharif Abdullah. The description mentions that the book is about the idea that “exclusivity” is a core issue. I thought I’d mention that I’d run across a…

I ran into this quote, which seems familiar, so I’m not sure but that it might have shown up in PALOD, but it’s relevant anyway: Cromwell: “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be wrong.” Also, I noticed that New Dimensions, which runs on KAOS sunday mornings, is possibly…

So, I read, over the break, the book “How the Irish saved civilization” by Thomas Cahill. I noticed a latin version of a quote from PALOD, which appears to the source for the quote found in one of our readings. Anyhow, the latin is “Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto” and comes from…

Saw this, and thought I’d mention it, since we read The Lives of Animals in class. J M Coetzee has won the 2003 Nobel for Literature. http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/10/03/coetzee/index.html

I’m going over the things that I’ve sent out (for my final) and wanted to remind everyone about this e-mail I sent out mack in march about Chris Hedges. We were talking about him this week again and how he was recently booed off the stage from a graduation ceremony to which he was asked…

Interestingly this was sent to me today. —–Forwarded Message—– > Sloka 47 from Dancing with Siva > > Why Do Some Souls Act in Evil Ways? > > People act in evil ways who have lost touch with their soul nature and > live totally in the outer, instinctive mind. What the ignorant see as…

“Be part of a national anti-war action on May 14. Screen “Dr. Strangelove,” and raise money for groups still working hard for peace, justice and relief in Iraq.” http://operationstrangelove.org/ It might be a good “new” slogan they’ve reclaimed, “peace is our profession.” What was originally irony (and in fact, if I remember correctly, was a…

Robin & I will be doing part of our qtr project tomorrow and next tuesday. If you know your Myers-Briggs type, stop by. If you don’t know it, then take the online version of the personality test and then stop by to take our survey! Thanks! —–Forwarded Message—– > From: J G Bell > To:…

Ia actually sent this out to a friend the other day. Here’s the links I mentioned in class, that I would send out. —–Forwarded Message—– > http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0308-01.htm > > ” Kucinich, whose working-class district elected a conservative > Republican before him, is confident Democrats from even the most > competitive districts can safely join him…

A quote a recent UTNE e-mail that relates to the cultural creatives book: “DESPITE HAVING SPENT a decade and a half writing about radical social movements, I am only just beginning to see what has animated, motivated, and knitted together those gatherings of aggrieved folks. I have come to realize that once we strip radical…

Funny is a very sad way because it has the appearance of being deep, but it’s really not. http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/ “The Unknown” As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not…