March 2003
The Archives
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Blogroll updated
03.31.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsTweaking just gives me a big case of the deep fried happy. Lots of new categories for my weblog links. Enjoy.
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Jesus H. Christ!
03.31.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsAmongst today’s happenings: (1) The mayor cancelled out of her part in a panel discussion I had planned around her. It’s tomorrow night, and I’d first made contact with her about it most of two months ago. (2) My mother had surgery to fix a little boo-boo the obgyn did–twenty-nine years ago when she gave […]
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Announcing ‘The Polis’
03.30.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsAnd so it begins. Some folks commented in my ‘weblog manifesto’ reponse post that it would be swell if there was a blogring for–as The Happy Tutor put it–the “poststructuralist nonconforming postmodernist recovering philosopher web polis.” In the words of one nonconforming philosopher, ask and you shall receive. Thus, from the depths of the boundless […]
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Choices already made
03.27.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsMonday or Tuesday this week I was forwarded an email written to my SO from a mutual acquaintance (and, for me, a former almost-colleague). We’d each gotten to know him at different points in our church camp life cycle, and our paths have had a way of looping back to each other through other people […]
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US Turning to Fascism?
03.27.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsEarlier this month I read somewhere that Mussolini defined fascism as the union of the State with the Corporation. Well, having grown up with friends whose parents worked for Halliburton, that scared the bejeezus out of me. So I’ve been reading up on fascism. Just read Mussolini himself. So is the US becoming fascist? If […]
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Lessons from the Atlanta HEM show
03.26.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSunday night I had the pleasure of hearing HEM a melancholy Brooklyn-based Americana group with some roots in Georgia and Michigan. Download their mp3s and then buy the EP (as the girl at the counter called it). And then thank Decatur-based Paste for telling the world about them. Among the band members was the snarky […]
