We Do This. We Do That.

Like I was saying…. Via MBA@UNC MBA Online & Women 2.0

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:45:02 -0400

Like I was saying…. Via MBA@UNC MBA Online & Women 2.0

Tonight I thinkno poetrywill serve—Adrienne Rich

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:28:00 -0400

Tonight I thinkno poetrywill serve—Adrienne Rich

RIP ~ Adrienne Rich

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:53:29 -0400

RIP ~ Adrienne Rich: If you don’t know, you should take the time to read the above link and...

One of my favorite hoodie photos in support of justice for...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:36:39 -0400

One of my favorite hoodie photos in support of justice for Trayvon Martin.

When SXSW Comes Face To Face With Austin's Homeless

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:09:00 -0400

When SXSW Comes Face To Face With Austin's Homeless: Unless you’ve been living under a rock,...

This video kills me. California Attorney General Kamala Harris,...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:08:46 -0400

This video kills me. California Attorney General Kamala Harris, and her sister Maya, VP for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation - being first off adorable, and then being fierce. Taken at Newsweek/The Daily Beast’s recent Women In The World Power Summit.

The best International Women’s Day story, told through...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:38:15 -0500

The best International Women’s Day story, told through GIFs.

This!

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:33:00 -0500

This!: “There’s still more diversity in the color of anchors’ ties than in the racial and...

This photo is literally the one used for “lesbian”...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:49:00 -0500

This photo is literally the one used for “lesbian” on Wikipedia.

In related news - the wiki article on “lesbian” is very informative! Even for a gay history geek like myself, who likes to think I would have already known all of that.

Fuck The Dude Up

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:11:00 -0500

Fuck The Dude Up: This McSweeney’s column is my favorite piece of writing right now. I feel...

Yes to this today

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:14:19 -0500

Responsibility - by Grace Paley . It is the responsibility of society to let the poet be a poetIt is...

A Thing I'd Like

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:03:00 -0500

Lately I’ve been thinking about how I want to force everyone I love to make me a mix-tape...

OWS, Hindu goddesses, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, disruptive innovation, etc!

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:44:31 -0500

OWS, Hindu goddesses, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, disruptive innovation, etc!: Recently I was...

Is everybody aware that Miley Cyrus made an Occupy video? No,...

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:36:27 -0500

Is everybody aware that Miley Cyrus made an Occupy video? No, really. She made this video.

Mind blowing of the day #3 . Once upon a time, on this site,...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:41:00 -0500

Mind blowing of the day #3

Once upon a time, on this site, long ago, before I took down the old archives, I posted my favorite chapter from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Here it is:

Trading Cities 4 .
In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationdhip of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.
From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Ersilia’s refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing.
They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away.
Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.

I was thinking, again, of this chapter today. The little secret something something I’m working on these days is truly made possible only through the amazing web of brilliant and wonderful people I know all over the place. And we have spent years building threads and circling back and supporting each other’s visions - tied together in some shared grand endeavor, connected throughout open space.

One of the most precious people in my life has often not lived in the same city as I. One night, long ago, as I sat sweltering on a late summer rooftop on St. Marks Place, she drove along the darkened highways of Northern California and offered up an analysis of the tread that connects her heart to mine, and the lack of difference distance and time makes to the strength of that fabric. Is sustains, regardless of those other logistics. It is always there.

Those threads are all over and in so many forms, and are a beautiful vision that daily haunts me as to how the world created with so many people I love takes form. And how we sustain and grow through the connections, breathing life into each other’s places and endeavors.

And so I searched the internet to see if I could find the text of the chapter to reread. And, I did. But then I also found a series of images including the above, where artists used the concept of the chapter in recreations throughout Berlin! Just gorgeous! And so so wonderful! Here is the link to more pictures.

Mind successfully blown once again.

Mindblowing of the day #1 and #2 . Recently a friend sent me a...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:21:16 -0500

Mindblowing of the day #1 and #2

Recently a friend sent me a link to this New Yorker article, with the statement “I don’t know - something about the mixture of intelligence, wolves, and the arts made me think of you.”

Of course I had to read it. And so I just discovered the incredible brilliance of Helene Grimaud - the beautiful, eccentric pianist who is obsessed with wolves, and in her spare time runs a conservatory for them in upstate New York. Reading the article also introduced me to the amazing fact that Synesthesia is a thing. I had no idea that everyone didn’t see colors when they hear music, or hear sounds when they see silent movement, or any of the other multiple sensory overlap experiences synesthesia covers! I mean, really?? Everyone does do that, right? Right? Mindblown all over the place. (The sound of a mind being blown is very colorful, btw.)

New technologies allowed Angela Gheorghiu to duet with a prior...

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:43:23 -0500

New technologies allowed Angela Gheorghiu to duet with a prior recording of Maria Callas, singing Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen. Amazing.

Still life with purple car, hanging in New Orleans edition

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:02:48 -0400

Still life with purple car, hanging in New Orleans edition

In which my neglected blog slowly turns into a place where I...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:20:00 -0400

In which my neglected blog slowly turns into a place where I just post random pictures of my car in various locations. Here she is found imagining herself a part of a Georgia O’Keeffe painting, outside the landscape surrounding O’Keeffe’s former home at Ghost Ranch.

(In addition to driving about in the car incarnation of Prince’s spirit, I’m actually at work on lots of exciting new things being born in a manner that I can’t yet quite publish about. But, we’ll see, perhaps this old blog will have new life once all that gets up and publicly running. In the meantime: car trip pics!)

This hot number and I are starting our relationship out with...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:08:00 -0400

This hot number and I are starting our relationship out with several thousand miles on the open road, visiting all the major music cities in America. Here she is in front of one of Dolly Parton’s homes in Nashville, next to Dolly’s massive pink recording complex. After posing for this shoot, the blasted music turned from Dolly to Cash, while driving out towards that lake house he shared with June, which burnt down a few years ago. The night ended in some tiny hidden honky tonk where f’ing Adele (stop it!!) was hanging out, doing research for her next album, which she wants to have more twang in.

Purple car + open road + endless music history + present everything wonderfulness = heaven. (Thanks universe, love you back!) Onward!