In the car, Ella is scatting like it’s nobody’s business. Julien has taken a fancy to scat, and he sits in the backseat lip-syncing to, “Doo-wah doo-wah doo-wah doo-wah doo-wah.” I smile. The sunroof is open and the sun is warm on my head. Life is good.
Breaking his rhythn, Julien asks, “Do I look like […]

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The collective intelligence of this administration failed miserably to devise a creative diplomatic solution in Iraq. Here’s a hint that they also lack the creativity to accomplish the liberation of Iraq through their use of organized violence, from Times Online:
British and American intelligence badly miscalculated the level of resistance that coalition forces would encounter in […]

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Alison on Henry Miller: “too misogynistic too stupid too full of himself i hate him.” Having never read Miller, nor having attempted to read Miller, nor even having located the desire to attempt to read Miller, I can’t speak to her assessment of him. But I do so love her subtlety.

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Dinnertime with a small child is never unpleasant. Except for the screeching and the food-flinging and the table-kicking and the rubbing of eyes with squash-covered hands which then leads to more screeching. A parent must do all that s/he can to distract the small child from wreaking futher havoc on an otherwise relaxing moment. Thus, […]

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I’m with Ari on this: I wanna see that part where Adrien Brody plants a long, beautiful kiss on Halle Berry again, maybe even in slow motion. Anybody have a link?

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I’ll probably regret this. But.
Last Christmas, I made a tape for my dad. They were songs written by other people that I’d recorded on my little 4-track, and that I thought my dad might like. The tape’s primary purpose was to give my dad a taste of some of the stuff I’d been playing […]

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I need your help. You see, I failed history in college. Really, I did. It was my second semester at NMSU in Las Cruces. The class was Modern European History, which basically covered the years 1800-present. I bombed the first test so badly that the instructor told me to my face: “I strongly urge you […]

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Last night, dinnertime conversation between the girl and I centered on the differences between film photographs and digital photographs. We both mused at how different two pictures of the same thing can be. Case in point: Lisa Whiteman’s film photograph of bubbles blowing off a balcony along Red River during SXSW and Min Jung’s digital […]

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As an American, I am deeply ashamed of you. You have single-handedly done more to isolate my country from the rest of the world than any other person in our recent history. Your father has even warned of the dangers of launching a first-strike without the support of the international community. Apparently, you “respectfully disagree” […]

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Our pictures from SXSW 2003 are up. Please enjoy: sxsw03

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