Humid Beings

A Few Choice Quotes

7 hours ago

Toddler Abuses Peyton Manning The Saints won a decisive victory against a worthy opponent, and people in New Orleans couldn’t…

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The Hex Is In

1 days ago

One last thing…

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Love Your Enemy

1 days ago

I’ve had a lot of fun at the expense of my former hometown over the past few days — and…

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Who Dat Say Dat Last Who Dat?

2 days ago

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justanuptowngirl/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This just in from my father: With all the fun you’re having pre-game, I want…

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Voting Advice Roundup

3 days ago

http://www.flickr.com/photos/therefore/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Yes, that’s right, New Orleans is having an election tomorrow, right in the midst of…

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Hoosiers Fight Back!

4 days ago

Enraged Hoosiers / CC BY 2.0 It’s almost heartening to see the Indianapolis folk awaken from their torpor and struggle…

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Indy Facts 21-30

5 days ago

Indy News Flash: Long Line at the Taco Bell Drive Thru! / CC BY 2.0 My research continues to pay…

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Indianapolis Facts 11-20

5 days ago

The Elusive Beauty of Indianapolis / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Persona non grata! Apparently I am no longer welcome in the…

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Ten Things Saints Fans Should Know About Indianapolis

6 days ago

Typical Indianapolis Architecture / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Some people suffer a persistent delusion that the Super Bowl is won by…

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Anatomy of a Hangover

7 days ago

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35221084@N08/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I’ve often heard it said that sweet juicy rum drinks can be very dangerous, but…

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Bulletin Board

10 days ago

Greenwood, circa 1983: After I moved downstairs into what was previously my father’s study, I set up this bulletin board…

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Some Changes to Our Broadcast Schedule

11 days ago

I’ve made a few changes to radio.rox. It’s no longer 24/7 as a rule. Too much hassle to program overnight…

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Floored

11 days ago

I recently got our energy bill for the period covering the recent cold snap: $500! Granted that was some record-setting…

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Black & Gold & Blue & White Superbowl

13 days ago

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Yesterday everyone on campus was wearing black and gold — except for our administrative assistant.…

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Not Just a Game

15 days ago

Then, just when I thought the whole sequence of events couldn’t get any stranger, I got a text message while…

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Fumigation Days

15 days ago

The fumigation we’d originally planned for early December has finally been accomplished, and I must say despite the hassle that…

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Overheard at the Playground

17 days ago

Yesterday afternoon I stopped by the playground on the Jeff Davis neutral ground with my daughter. We approached Serpent Mound…

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Twenty-Three Months

18 days ago

Dear Persephone, You are twenty-three months old today. Recently your have begun formulating simple sentences, and in the last month…

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XLIII

21 days ago

It’s shaping up as something of a tradition in its own right. My birthday has an overt tendency to suck.…

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Hamstrung

24 days ago

If I haven’t written here as much lately, perhaps it’s because I feel constrained from public discussion of many of…

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Thawing Out

27 days ago

There was a little frost outside this morning, but our cold snap seems to be coming to an end. The…

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FOLC on WWOZ

27 days ago

WWOZ will be airing a “Street Talk” segment on the Lafitte Corridor greenway project today (Tues 1/12/10) at 2pm sharp.…

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Keep Our Campus Beautiful

28 days ago

Thanks to my old school chum Aaron V. for sending me this scan. He retrieved this flyer near Ballantine Hall…

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My Big Chill

30 days ago

By strange coincidence, I found myself watching The Big Chill Friday night. It’s one of those super-famous movies that I’ve…

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Coldest

31 days ago

We are experiencing the coldest damn weather since we moved here to New Orleans ten years ago. In fact it…

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My Absolute Favorite Albums of the Aughts

32 days ago

Here are my favorite albums released from 2000 to 2009. I tried to narrow this down to a top ten,…

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Catching Up to the Present

33 days ago

I’m still trying to catch up to the present. We celebrated Xy’s birthday last Tuesday. Since she was feeling sick…

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We Roll Tight Whips Every Day

34 days ago

When we were out in Oregon there was a story on the news that caught my interest, out of the…

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Scratch and Crow

34 days ago

I recently got word that Helen Hill’s film Scratch and Crow has been named to the National Film Registry. Each…

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A Tale of Two T-Shirts

35 days ago

I spent the last week recovering from my family reunion. We have one every five years, and this was the…

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Anti-Decade

36 days ago

To offset the decade-hype, here’s ten tracks of greatness which were released well before 2000. Including music by Beastie Boys,…

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Editor B’s Year-End Closeout

39 days ago

Yo here’s a mix of my favorite tracks released in 2009. There’s 23 in all, so it’s about an hour…

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Twenty-Two Months

48 days ago

Dear Persephone, You’re twenty-two months old as of yesterday. Not long ago I had a fleeting vision of what you…

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Ocular Emergency

49 days ago

Friday night my daughter stabbed me in the eye. Not intentionally — she was just waving her arm around. Her…

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FOLC Presentation

52 days ago

Here’s a presentation I made last night on the Lafitte Corridor, the greenway project, the revitalization plan, FOLC, and everything…

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Broke My Damn Toe and Other Entries in the Annals of Idiocy

54 days ago

I’ve been wanting to visit a podiatrist, but I am daunted from seeking healthcare, daunted by my insurer. Humana refuses…

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Milo Needs a Caption

54 days ago

It has just been brought to my attention that Ulysses Press has canceled publication of LOLcats: Teh Most Funyest, Cutest…

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Vehicular Challenge

55 days ago

Michael gave me a lift early Sunday morning to pick up the car from where Xy had abandoned it on…

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Trial by Water

57 days ago

I wasn’t feeling quite right. When Xy offered to take our daughter with her on a shopping expedition I assented.…

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A Poster Boy for Brainwashing

58 days ago

Imagine my surprise when I discovered my nursery school photo is being used by Cory Frickin’ Doctorow for an article…

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48 Really Dumb Questions

59 days ago

These are my answers (from about a month ago) to a really dumb chain e-mail which I got from a…

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radio.rox

60 days ago

I’ve made a few changes to the streaming audio station as I continue the constant pursuit of perfection. Finally came…

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The Waif of Persephone

61 days ago

Thanks to Sean for turning me on to this animated short. The Waif of Persephone from Nick Cross on Vimeo.…

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Well, Crap

62 days ago

Overnight New Orleans got pounded by heavy, heavy rain for several hours. Also some serious gusts. We lost power for…

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Drywoods

63 days ago

We’re having our house tented for fumigation to kill off some drywood termites. It’s kind of a pain, because we…

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Radio

65 days ago

Awrite — I’m taking the plunge and starting my own net radio station. This will be going 24/7 or as…

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Collaborative Story Assignment

67 days ago

A photo I took in 2005 was recently used to spur a collaborative writing assignment. I have no idea where…

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Saints Metaphor

68 days ago

I was listening to WWL and WBOK yesterday. These two talk-radio stations could not be more different in so many…

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Doing the Wave

69 days ago

It was some fun watching the Saints dismantle the Patriots last night. And now I’m doing the wave. No, not…

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L— H—

70 days ago

I got a call from L— H— this morning. At least I think it was L— H—. In any event…

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Unpacking

72 days ago

We are still unpacking. Many thanks (again) to my mother-in-law for her painstakingly accurate labels. But three weeks after the…

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Giving Thanx

74 days ago

Today I’m giving thanks to so many people who have given me so much over the past year. To all…

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American Profile

75 days ago

My friend Leonardo e-mailed me about this. Our paper carries a Parade magazine like thing during the week called American…

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Thanxgiving Premix

75 days ago

If you’re in range of WTUL you will of course want to listen to Big Al’s “Ballads to Baste Your…

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Auto Motive

76 days ago

Oops, I meant to post this mix to go along with the previous post about the burned-out car. This one’s…

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Tale of a Burned Out Car

77 days ago

Here’s something I observed a few weeks ago, but am only finding time to write about now. On Monday, October…

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Twenty-One Months

78 days ago

Dear Persephone, A lot has sure happened in the last month. Most notably, perhaps, we moved to a new house.…

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Using Flickr for Neighborhood Activism

79 days ago

Some of my neighbors have been bickering, er, I mean debating about Comiskey Park here in Mid-City. The basketball goals…

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Global Immediacy

80 days ago

Yesterday I presented a workshop which I called “Global Immediacy: Using Video Telephony to Bring Distant Guests into Your Classroom.”…

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Whistle

80 days ago

For no particular reason except the sheer fun of it, here’s a mix of whistling songs. Perhaps you can use…

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Exhalation & Disclosure

83 days ago

I feel like I’m exhaling and relaxing for the first time since — when was it? — late July. That’s…

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Mystery Fence

84 days ago

I can’t figure out the purpose of this fence. It is bolted in place, by the way.

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Closing In

87 days ago

I’m gearing up to sign a bunch of papers in about an hour and a half. First we’re closing on…

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Five Things I Hate About Our New House

88 days ago

No, I’m not feeling particularly grumpy. Quite the opposite. We are settling in and making good progress on unpacking. We’ll…

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Moved

91 days ago

With help from over twenty friends and neighbors we knocked our move out in just over four and a half…

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Impending Move

94 days ago

I got the key to our new house this morning. It’s starting to seem like reality. My mother-in-law was down…

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Extracurricular Activities

95 days ago

So, what to do in a strange city when you’ve got a few hours to kill? I could have looked…

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POD 2009

96 days ago

I’ve been doing faculty development for over ten years. Yet I’ve never attended a conference on the subject — until…

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Houston

98 days ago

I just got back from a trip to Houston. I guess you might wanna zoom way in to find me.…

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Obligatory Cuteness

101 days ago

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Apostaversary

102 days ago

Today I celebrate a quarter-century of atheism. A quarter century? Why yes. Here is an entry from my journal 25…

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Life Has a Way of Sneaking Up on Me

104 days ago

Oops. I thought we had a couple more weeks before we closed on the houses we are buying and selling.…

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Entergy Writes Back

193 days ago

Remember that letter I sent to Entergy? I got a reply. July 22, 2009 Dear Mr. Everson As Director of…

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Entergy Writes Back

193 days ago

Remember that letter I sent to Entergy? I got a reply. July 22, 2009 Dear Mr. Everson As Director of…

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Apostaversary

102 days ago

Today I celebrate a quarter-century of atheism. A quarter century? Why yes. Here is an entry from my journal 25…

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Staying Positive

138 days ago

Here’s a mix of twenty-one tracks to inspire and uplift, occasionally veering into the cornball but mostly keeping it real,…

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Moved

91 days ago

With help from over twenty friends and neighbors we knocked our move out in just over four and a half…

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Mid-City Community Garden

288 days ago

My neighborhood is still capable of surprising me every now and again. Such was the case yesterday when we stopped…

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Now It’s Time to Say Goodnight

288 days ago

Consider this a father-daughter lullaby duet of sorts. Now It’s Time to Say Goodnight by Editor B

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Why Halloween Sucks

465 days ago

Why do I hate Hallowe’en? It’s because of the Electronic Light-up Scary Yo-yo from Gealex Toys. It’s because of the…

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Waveland

297 days ago

We took the girl to Waveland, Mississippi, yesterday, for her first visit to a beach. Here’s a slideshow of a…

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Hike the Lafitte Corridor

273 days ago

What are you doing for National Trails Day? If you’re in New Orleans, please join us for the 5th Annual…

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Supervillain

164 days ago

This is not quite the “supervillain look” I described last week, but it’s as close as I’m liable to capture…

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Toxic Waste Panic in Mid-City

295 days ago

Our big excitement today came when the New Orleans Fire Department came out to investigate a suspicious canister leaking a…

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Skylar Fein Rocks

126 days ago

Here’s a li’l art rock mix in honor of the fun we had over the weekend. I took Persephone to…

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Pauline

119 days ago

Here is a mix we listen to in our house when someone passes on. We listened to this last night…

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Bucket & Torch

476 days ago

I was talking to Howie and he shared this passage with me: Education is now prized not because the culture…

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Closer to the Greenway

296 days ago

From New Orleans City Business: City moving closer to work on creating Lafitte greenway Redeveloping 3-mile stretch from Quarter to…

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What Happened to That Boy?

127 days ago

Note: The title’s a lyrical reference to a New Orleans hip-hop track, and of course there’s a (NSFW) mix if…

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Geekin’ Out

124 days ago

So what is it I do anyway? Lots of different things. For example: Today I’m leading a faculty workshop on…

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Extracurricular Activities

95 days ago

So, what to do in a strange city when you’ve got a few hours to kill? I could have looked…

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At the Meeting

307 days ago

Here we go again, I thought, as I sat down at the MCNO meeting last night. Once again New Orleanians…

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Cough Cough

175 days ago

What started as a mild sore throat ten days ago has moved through various stages. I had some nasal congestion…

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On the Market

153 days ago

Well, it’s official. Our house is on the market. There’s a “For Sale” sign in front. We’ve been very happy…

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Raucous ? Rock

117 days ago

Here’s a frenzied mix of raucous rockin’ music — but there’s a catch, of course: There’s no actual rock music…

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1934ish

114 days ago

Holy frijoles, my dad is 75 years old today. What kind of gift could I possibly give the man who…

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Happy Halloween

464 days ago

Here’s the full-on Crown Royal costume in all its glory. I drilled two tiny holes through a Crown Royal cap…

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Obligatory Easter Cuteness

301 days ago

Almost forgot… My parents passed along this bunny outfit. I think maybe I wore it when I was one. If…

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A Haphazard List of Possible Future Topics for Pleasure

298 days ago

This is the third installment of three sample documents dredged up from my old Brother WP-500 disks. I really have…

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Dear Goody Clancy

292 days ago

Here’s a letter which I hope to present directly to representatives of Goody Clancy at tonight’s District 4 meeting (6PM…

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Date Nite

172 days ago

Last night for the first time ever we left our daughter with a babysitter and had a fun night out…

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Three Offers

131 days ago

After a couple weeks of little to no activity, we got three offers on our house yesterday. There’s a long…

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Honored to Be Here

125 days ago

Today I’m being heaped with honors for working here ten years. Of course I’ve got a thematic mix for this…

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Song My Parents Taught Me

122 days ago

Apropos of nothing at all, here’s a mix of songs my parents taught me. Mostly these are songs I remember…

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Avant Mellow

118 days ago

Avant-garde music has a bad rap for being screeching and unpleasant. Here’s a mix that proves otherwise. Some of it…

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Houston

98 days ago

I just got back from a trip to Houston. I guess you might wanna zoom way in to find me.…

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Exhalation & Disclosure

83 days ago

I feel like I’m exhaling and relaxing for the first time since — when was it? — late July. That’s…

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Global Immediacy

80 days ago

Yesterday I presented a workshop which I called “Global Immediacy: Using Video Telephony to Bring Distant Guests into Your Classroom.”…

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48 Really Dumb Questions

59 days ago

These are my answers (from about a month ago) to a really dumb chain e-mail which I got from a…

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A Poster Boy for Brainwashing

58 days ago

Imagine my surprise when I discovered my nursery school photo is being used by Cory Frickin’ Doctorow for an article…

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Trial by Water

57 days ago

I wasn’t feeling quite right. When Xy offered to take our daughter with her on a shopping expedition I assented.…

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Conversation at the SpeeDee Oil Change

474 days ago

Male Employee: I sure do like a short woman. Xy: Well, my husband is 6′4″. That cooled his jets for…

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Open Sound New Orleans

478 days ago

I was recently contacted by the good folks at Open Sound New Orleans. This is a website where people can…

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April 5, 2009

308 days ago

The day started off badly enough. I wasn’t feeling so hot — one too many gin and tonics the night…

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Hellacious Saturday

301 days ago

As I rode my bike to my book club yesterday morning, I wondered idly what name the day might have.…

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Dear General Zia

300 days ago

This is the second installment of three sample documents dredged up from my old Brother WP-500 disks. I think this…

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Fourteen Months

293 days ago

Dear Persephone, You’re walking better than ever, though you still have plenty of spills, including a tumble down the stairs…

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Getting My Stripes

286 days ago

After many phone calls and much wheedling, pleading and cajoling, it appears I’m getting my stripes. Those are pedestrian crosswalk-style…

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Dear Aunt Ron

279 days ago

Dear Aunt Ron, Thanks for Persephone’s birthday gift. It will probably take her a while to grow into those clothes,…

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Five & Dime

276 days ago

It’s been a little over five years since I started blogging here in earnest. I thought this would be a…

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You Tell Me

137 days ago

An hour of music. You tell me: what do these 21 tracks have in common? Besides a general level of…

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Underground Study

111 days ago

I found and scanned an old photo from my files. Here’s Brian Jones and I getting into a serious subterranean…

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Five Things I Hate About Our New House

88 days ago

No, I’m not feeling particularly grumpy. Quite the opposite. We are settling in and making good progress on unpacking. We’ll…

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Using Flickr for Neighborhood Activism

79 days ago

Some of my neighbors have been bickering, er, I mean debating about Comiskey Park here in Mid-City. The basketball goals…

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The Waif of Persephone

61 days ago

Thanks to Sean for turning me on to this animated short. The Waif of Persephone from Nick Cross on Vimeo.…

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The Mania for Documentation Considered as a Disease

304 days ago

Remember those Brother WP-500 disks I mentioned a while back? I was unable to find a compatible machine to actually…

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Penetrating Insight

157 days ago

Occasionally I get a comment so penetrating, so insightful, that it just begs to be given special attention. So herewith…

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Semisweet Sixteen

136 days ago

Xy and I are celebrating our 16th anniversary today. This might be a good time to revisit our infamous puppet-show…

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???????-?????

134 days ago

Does this image of the Ten Commandments ring any bells? Well, if you know me, it should look vaguely familiar.…

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Presidential Visitation

116 days ago

President Obama is visiting New Orleans today, so here’s a mix (warning: some dirty lyrics). This is a silly thematic…

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Ballooning

112 days ago

I was curious as to how Obama’s visit to New Orleans might be covered in the national media. Would it…

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Strange Mail

111 days ago

I got a strange e-mail from an old friend today: I’m sorry for this odd request because it might get…

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Twenty Months

109 days ago

Dear Persephone, You are twenty months old today, and growing fast. One day recently I picked you up from daycare…

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Obligatory Cuteness

101 days ago

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POD 2009

96 days ago

I’ve been doing faculty development for over ten years. Yet I’ve never attended a conference on the subject — until…

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Closing In

87 days ago

I’m gearing up to sign a bunch of papers in about an hour and a half. First we’re closing on…

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Mystery Fence

84 days ago

I can’t figure out the purpose of this fence. It is bolted in place, by the way.

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Whistle

80 days ago

For no particular reason except the sheer fun of it, here’s a mix of whistling songs. Perhaps you can use…

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Twenty-One Months

78 days ago

Dear Persephone, A lot has sure happened in the last month. Most notably, perhaps, we moved to a new house.…

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American Profile

75 days ago

My friend Leonardo e-mailed me about this. Our paper carries a Parade magazine like thing during the week called American…

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L— H—

70 days ago

I got a call from L— H— this morning. At least I think it was L— H—. In any event…

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Radio

65 days ago

Awrite — I’m taking the plunge and starting my own net radio station. This will be going 24/7 or as…

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Drywoods

63 days ago

We’re having our house tented for fumigation to kill off some drywood termites. It’s kind of a pain, because we…

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radio.rox

60 days ago

I’ve made a few changes to the streaming audio station as I continue the constant pursuit of perfection. Finally came…

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Broke My Damn Toe and Other Entries in the Annals of Idiocy

54 days ago

I’ve been wanting to visit a podiatrist, but I am daunted from seeking healthcare, daunted by my insurer. Humana refuses…

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