In Santa Fe, Michael told me that at some point Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson had gotten married. Huh? Whew. Can anyone confirm? I guess they’ve been an item for some time - I don’t know how I could have missed that. Two of my favorite talents, but so very different.
I’ve been listening to [...]
We had revisited the D.H. Lawrence Ranch that we had so enjoyed on our honeymoon. (I think those photos might be on Ben’s camera, so I’ll post them later. We have a history of problems with photos of the place.)
This time, we also had a horrible event. Ben was bitten on the head [...]
Some recommended reading - do your homework.
Saving the World By Stopping the Pentagon’s Programs
By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet
All that work against nuclear proliferation - gone, gone, gone. Another way we make the world a more dangerous place.
Then there is “Complex 2030,” a proposal to consolidate and update the entire nuclear complex, including the opening of a [...]
Maybe I spent too much time wallowing in viral topics for my dissertation, but I’m gradually getting a little concerned. I’m trying to disentangle coincidence, influenza, and another virus with “flu-like symptoms.”
The flu virus is spreading fast in the Southeast, with Georgia, Alabama and Florida reporting the highest activity, the CDC says. See the CDC [...]
I spent much of the last thirty hours or so in a state of utter wretchedness. And retching. And intensified misery thinking of W. And retching. And wretched.
I don’t know whether it was food poisoning, or a virus, or what.
Even worst than the nausea and vomiting was the horrible alternation between the sweats and [...]
Richard Dawkins (Oxford prof., father of meme theory, author of The Selfish Gene) argues against irrational, militant religion in the two-part Channel 4 UK documentary “The Root of all Evil?” (Jan. 2006).
Dawkins goes too far by including all forms of faith - not all are in direct contradiction to independent thought and constructive doubt! [...]
Joseph Nechvatal, my friend and intellectual compadre in viral realms, has his latest exhibition in Ohio. “Contaminations” has been extended to run through June 25th at the Butler Institute of American Art’s Beecher Center. The show includes a selection of computer-robotic assisted paintings starting in the mid-1980’s and concludes with a recent electronic viral installation.
Go [...]
Enjoying Music
