quote out of context
“I was trying to work the political scene,” he said.
from the spam
take off your emotional clothes and sing
South Dallas, Texas
This morning
dear clusterflock
What does socialism smell like?
Plato’s Man Cave
via Michael Lang
This Is Where, part two: Milla
This Is Where is a photo movie project I began two years ago. The photos and narrative are by Lucy Foley. The music was composed and performed by Ross Bonadonna.
This Is Where is intended to be a multi-part exploration of the place where my practices of photography, performance, writing and collaboration meet. Parts one and two were first exhibited at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen during the Enniskillen Arts Festival, 2008. Portora is a 400 year old institution based in a magnificent old house high on the hill above Enniskillen town. It is where Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde were schooled.
This is part two of This Is Where. It is called Milla.
clusterflockflockflockflock
Last year, Memorial weekend, a group of us who knew each other mostly from clusterflock met in north Texas for a face to face get together. This year, some of us are meeting in Silverthorne Colorado to do the same. While we are away, those who aren’t able to attend will be making the majority of the posts, but I wanted to take the opportunity to extend an invitation to those who like the site, and contribute by commenting, or by reading and enjoying, to participate while we are away. In fact, to participate at any time. clusterflock may seem insular, because of the kinds of conversations that get generated when people start to get to know each other and develop an understanding of affinities and peculiarities, but one of the purposes of the site has always been inclusion, like a semi-rambunctious dinner party. So, if you are up for the challenge, feel free to make the site better while we are away.
I wrote this down and forgot what it was
It starts with sounds, nothing direct. Partial images of lifting and carrying, the heavy weight of feet on stairs.
Brick By Chance And Fortune
The people, appropriately, are so Saint Louisian.
Zuckerberg
To echo Boyd, this is not just about simplifying the available controls:
The challenge is how a network like ours facilitates sharing and innovation, offers control and choice, and makes this experience easy for everyone. These are issues we think about all the time. Whenever we make a change, we try to apply the lessons we’ve learned along the way. The biggest message we have heard recently is that people want easier control over their information. Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. We just missed the mark.
welcome to the tea party
North Carolina Republicans are circulating court documents that suggest a far-right Tea-Party-backed congressional candidate claimed to be the Messiah, tried to raise his stepfather from the dead, believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid as the New Jerusalem on Greenland, and found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona.
on dope
There were 14 other podium spots available during his seven-year streak and, in all, eight riders occupied them. Five of those riders at some point admitted doping, were suspended for it, were convicted of it in court, or paid a fine to have charges settled: Ivan Basso, Raimondas Rumsas, Jan Ullrich, Alexander Vinokourov and Alex Zulle. Two others were linked to doping investigations then cleared or never charged: Joseba Beloki and Andreas Kloden. Just one, Fernando Escartin, had no direct association with doping allegations (though his Kelme team later would).
What I concluded—and as it turns out, this was the most isolating judgment I could have arrived at, because neither side agrees with me—is that based solely on what we publicly know, there’s no rigorously objective path to either yes or no. Whatever you believe about Armstrong is a matter more of faith than fact. Those of us who weren’t there seem to decide first what we believe about Armstrong, then construct a canon from the same set of incidents cited by those who just as passionately swear the opposite.
Also, in the New York Times:
It has long been known that athletes can use small, carefully timed doses of the blood booster EPO to beat urine-based drug tests yet still gain a significant performance advantage. But research by scientists in Australia and France has found that the technique also eludes the long-range biological passport program that was supposed to overcome the shortcomings of conventional testing.
But they did taste as if they might last quite a while if boxed up and shipped to a war zone
The Pentagon has released a 26-page manual on the proper protocol for baking brownies.
Take Section 3.2.6 of the recipe, for example, which covers eggs. It reads, in part, “Whole eggs may be liquid or frozen and shall have been processed and labeled in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Inspection of Eggs and Egg Products (7 CFR Part 59).”
Catalog Number 36514, 2010-015A, OTV-1 (USA 212)
Amateur astronomers have tracked the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B mini-space spy plane.
“Well the challenge is finding it without much data to go on,” Roberts responded. “If the data were freely available we would probably not have bothered with it. I see little sense in tracking objects for which data is freely available. It’s like re-inventing the wheel. So as long as there are missions with little or no information, I personally will be interested in the challenge of finding them.”
Family Life : The Frontal Cortex
Jonah Lehrer on that study that said that having children makes parents more miserable than people that choose not to have children:
just because we can’t measure something doesn’t mean it isn’t important
via Family Life : The Frontal Cortex.
Drugs added as a tag because of all them antidepressants consumed, y’know.
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Thanks for making such a valuable blog, sincerely Kobos Mathers.
Cocina Betty Crocker
I just ordered a copy of Cocina Betty Crocker: Recetas Americanas Favoritas en Español e Inglés. Just because.
Mezcla Original de Chex Party Mix.
Sopa de Frijoles de Senado.
Sandwich de Queso Americano a la Parrilla.
Took my own breath away tonight
when I wrote my friend, “Be careful what you wish for. I could tell you stories that would make you pound your head on the ground whilst you wept.”
Yahoo’s Carol Bartz tells Michael Arrington to…
Tom Waits – Lord I’ve Been Changed
not as mini as they used to be
Dear clusterflock:
So last year y’all partiers were thrust back on your own resources, like it or not. No posting — or limited posting — to clusterflock.
And we stay-at-homes were obliged to create our own fun.
This year you’ll have the option.
What do you think? How does it feel? What do you imagine?
iPhone Taxonomy
I feel like this has been in my pocket for awhile: has this been here before, do all y’all know about this?
Sitting with Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović, a performance artist known for physically-taxing acts in which she often appears in the nude, has an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art called “The Artist is Present.” In her piece, Abramović sits directly across from a chair that visitors may sit in for as long as they wish. Throughout the day, Abramović sits in the chair while visitors move in and out of the performance, some growing visibly uncomfortable or bored and leaving after a few minutes, while some stay for hours, often coming to tears.
Photographer Marco Anelli is photographing each person who sits across from Abramović and posting them to MoMA’s flickstream. Each portrait states how long the person sat in the chair (the average is about 20 minutes).
You can also see a live feed of Abramović’s performance here. When I watched the video a few minutes before making this post, the chair before Abramović was empty, and she was curled into her lap, crying.
