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Married in Canada; single in the US. You do the math.
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- I hate living in Seattle or I wish I lived in Seattle
- SF or LA
- Dina Martina or Jean Godden
- Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas
- What song or movie makes you cry?: stories involving old people getting abused/neglected
sheiler is eating eating semi-sweet chocolate chips to prevent her from going whole hog with milk chocolate.
Jun 16
sheiler commented on Dispatch from Istanbul: What to Do Next?.
Engaging posts. I appreciate them. I'd read the sci fi novel "Dervish House" and feel, weirdly, that I have a stake in this as a result.
Jun 1
sheiler commented on The 20th Most Trusted Person in America is An Anarchist.
Noam Chomsky is very unpopular with a huge portion of the beltway press, politicians, people who hold power in the US.
He consistently continues to point out those times when public persons or countries do one thing but say that they're actually doing something else, particularly when it means breaking a law, as in a law designed to protect people from violence.
I never said a social critic or an academic was the same comparison as a politician. But it galls me when I hear people saying that *because* Chomsky's never held office, he's not allowed to call out assholes?
Noam doesn't say to people in his articles, now kids, here's what you should do to combat the dreaded lying to the American public so that Halliburton can get those contracts... He's said on a number of occasions that that's not his job. He doesn't presume to tell people what they should be doing. You can take issue with that (well, you can do whatever) but saying that he should also do y if he's bothering to do x is where you're going get an argument from me.
He consistently continues to point out those times when public persons or countries do one thing but say that they're actually doing something else, particularly when it means breaking a law, as in a law designed to protect people from violence.
I never said a social critic or an academic was the same comparison as a politician. But it galls me when I hear people saying that *because* Chomsky's never held office, he's not allowed to call out assholes?
Noam doesn't say to people in his articles, now kids, here's what you should do to combat the dreaded lying to the American public so that Halliburton can get those contracts... He's said on a number of occasions that that's not his job. He doesn't presume to tell people what they should be doing. You can take issue with that (well, you can do whatever) but saying that he should also do y if he's bothering to do x is where you're going get an argument from me.
Jun 1
sheiler commented on Fela! Rocks!.
I am a huge fan of Fela's though I tried not to think too hard about the marrying 30-40 wives bit. I saw him live in Boston and he and his band performed exactly how you'd expect them to: excellently. One of the percussionists sported a gold earring, which at that time in the 80s kind of meant teh gay. I mentioned it to my friend, a Nigerian Yoruba guy, who was with me and he said, "no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no not possible."
Also a big fan of Bill T Jones.
Seattle, you are one lucky mother trucker.
Also a big fan of Bill T Jones.
Seattle, you are one lucky mother trucker.
May 31
sheiler commented on The 20th Most Trusted Person in America is An Anarchist.
Also I too am dubious of people in the US especially Reader's Digest subscribers knowing who Noam Chomsky is. Just 2 miles down from his office at MIT I ate my usual Thursday evening dinner with lesbos after volleyball and no one knew who he was.
May 31
sheiler commented on The 20th Most Trusted Person in America is An Anarchist.
I get that people get mad about Norman Q Chomsky because he's never held an elected position but come the bloddy eff on.
He was on the FBI watch list and was, like Daniel Ellsberg, this close to going to prison for a looong time for his political beliefs / activism. He's a linguist. He knows shit about language and therefore what a fecking lie is, and so as a human being, brought it up when the US govt was using lies to kill people. The fact that people believe that you have to have that feeling of electoral power before you can bring up inconsistencies means that our country is as morally and intellectually leotarded as ever.
Like Ellsberg, Norm and his wife planned for years on the likelihood that he would get thrown into prison for espousing his beliefs. Years, because back then in Viet Nam war time, that's how things went, slow.
You try living with that hanging over your head.
He was on the FBI watch list and was, like Daniel Ellsberg, this close to going to prison for a looong time for his political beliefs / activism. He's a linguist. He knows shit about language and therefore what a fecking lie is, and so as a human being, brought it up when the US govt was using lies to kill people. The fact that people believe that you have to have that feeling of electoral power before you can bring up inconsistencies means that our country is as morally and intellectually leotarded as ever.
Like Ellsberg, Norm and his wife planned for years on the likelihood that he would get thrown into prison for espousing his beliefs. Years, because back then in Viet Nam war time, that's how things went, slow.
You try living with that hanging over your head.
May 23
sheiler commented on New Pearl Buck Novel to Be Published This Fall.
I came to the Good Earth by way of boredom (ha ha internet? how about not even cable tv) and the book happened to be lying around. Kids these days. Oprah? Who's that?
May 21
sheiler commented on Rightwing Anti-Gay French Activist Commits Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral.
I have new friends, a lesbo couple, from Paris who relocated to the very fun and hip city of Montreal that is also unfortunately very ingrown toenail. I asked them why they left Paris since, well, it's Paris and they had very glamorous jobs, and they said it was because it was very difficult for them, native Parisians, to live there as a couple. They are finding it very difficult to find comparable work in their fields in Montreal because they don't know the hiring manager's brother, for example (a common theme), but are very happy to be in a city/country where same sex anything is not a big deal.
May 10
sheiler commented on Headline of the Day, FREAK OUT Edition.
Well, prochlorococcus is responsible for emitting the majority of the earth's oxygen. They live in the deep dark parts of the ocean. They live off of CO2.
So while we're getting more carbon dioxide than ever before maybe the little critters are taking over more space in the ocean to compensate for all this spare CO2. Which means move over Loch Ness. Hello Heather Locklear.
So while we're getting more carbon dioxide than ever before maybe the little critters are taking over more space in the ocean to compensate for all this spare CO2. Which means move over Loch Ness. Hello Heather Locklear.
Apr 22
sheiler commented on You Don't Know Either, Amanda Palmer.
Neil Gaiman is the only reason why I gave Palmer 10 extra seconds of my life (ok now it's a total of 30 seconds).
Apr 19
sheiler commented on A Seattle Without Billboards?.
Vermont - the whole state - has a ban on billboards. But they have a socialist senator and all kinds of co-op farms so what the ayche do they know? Plus their cheese makers don't add orange dye to their products.
All I know is that their scenery from the highway offers one of the best views.
All I know is that their scenery from the highway offers one of the best views.
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