March 2012
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“I’m producing too many stories at once because what I want is for you to...”
– Italo Calvino, If on a Winter Night’s Traveller
doctor, and the teaching of children
Sitting, irritable in the bright green doctor’s office.
Once again, like always, running screaming children.
But this time, a strange little played out scene from a child psych lab.
The shy one in the corner wants to befriend her stranger contemporary. Preening and leaning on her mom, she looks over.
Once, the girls runs wildly by, Al rescate!!! in search of her sister.
A shy urgent...
TVN
I wandered the maze-like studios, sound room to break room to office to BUENOS DIAS CHILE! set, a plaque commemorating that recently gone hero of daytime TV, unknown to this Gringo. WE break, and salad, enter large courtyards with sunglassed periodista women, writing the news, wander off to corridors of more offices, only to realize they are fake doctor’s offices, just another in case of...
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angry boys!!! →
dad making fun of his poser kid on angry boys
“look at my place man im rich! ….you shut the f up. you went to private white schools. you aint no mfing gangster! …..you begged me for the wicked broadway cast recording.”
“when he became a superstar thats when all the lies started….thats when he started all that BS about me being a drug addict. can you BELIEVE...
Rebecca Tabb, academic fellow →
So proud, my sister has her own profile page on Stanford Law School faculty. daaaaaamn haha.
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bruce webers out, let the madness begin! →
I remember how deep Illini basketball runs in my townie bones when I caught news Bruce Weber got fired from Illini basketball [god that was a long time coming], I started scouring the internet for rumors and speculation.
Shoot, townie basketball for Champaign is deep. I remember Bruce Weber standing and watching my tennis matches against his not so good daughter. Now hes off running to Custard...
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anti university peter thiel to teach stanford... →
Another link that hits close to home. Written by a kid from my hometown, graduated my year at Stanford.
Peter Thiel, famous for founding paypal, funding facebook early, and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to kids to drop out of college [there was a great new yorker article on him: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_packer[also, hes gay stanford alumni—a...
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“Argentina is the dean of the club of nations utterly obsessed with their...”
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NYTimes on Patagonia: people, dams, parks and... →
This is a really well-balanced NYTimes article on the perspective of people in Patagonia on all the possible development there. Between watching the protests for dams [looking outside my window to see signs in neighborhing apartments last winter, seeing tanks waiting by the presidential palace on my way home from work], to teaching students at Endesa and other dam in Aysen project generators...
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under the drones---modern religion in... →
Also, if youre interested in the religious politics of this region, this book was edited by a Stanford professor I didn’t know from my old department, looks pretty cool and modern.
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I remember the priest at my church growing up, during confirmation class, saying they should throw Revelations out of the Bible. Lets just say the Episcopal church aint no fundamentalists. Then he went on a long rant about the beauty and meaning of Kairos.
Anyway, recommend this New Yorker article on the new Elaine Pagels book on Revelations by Adam Gopnik, who always writes about themes I...
