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What? You don't like Billy Joel? Oh.

Posted on November 14, 2008
Then maybe you'll like Adele:Great pipes, is a normal-sized, pretty girl with awesome eyeliner and bangs, what's not to like. And yes, I like Billy Joel, you haterz.This song is nice too:I need a plaid coat, stat.

what belle is reading

Posted on November 13, 2008
In my free bits of time, before bed, in addition to admin law and soc of culture:1. Law as a Means to an End by Brian Tamanaha (finally getting back to it!)2. Eloquence and Reason by Robert Tsai3. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell4. An uncorrected proof (squee!) of the yet-to-be-released novel by Jesse Ball5...

state of the belle

Posted on November 12, 2008
1. Very confused about schemas vs. frames vs. narratives vs. group styles. Like, what the fuck is the difference. Damn you sociologists for finding one phenomenon and giving it five names. 2. Very stoked about finally getting to the judicial review part of admin law! Srsly...

What is "modernity," anyway, and why should we give a damn?

Posted on November 12, 2008
Belle, I will salve your blog guilt. A dialog from the comments to a post in Gowder-territory:Wolfson: Religions are obviously more than passels of expressions sometimes conjoined with ontological claims, though one might forgive another for not getting this as a result of the general atomization of, you know, MODERNITY...

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live-blogging NonDescript 11/11

Posted on November 11, 2008
And good morning, and welcome to another week in which Belle sits in her rocking chair screaming at these dad-burned kids today and that noise that they call music. Ahhh, Ensure.Show feed.Playlist:Artist | Song | AlbumAstronautalis | Oceanwalk | You And Yer Good IdeasBeirut | A Sunday Smile | The Flying Club CupSharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Is In | Daptone 7 Inch Singles Collection Vol...

Cooking posts coming, I promise. But for now, some race posts!

Posted on November 10, 2008
I have two more cooking posts backlogged... I'll write them soon. Honest. But while you're waiting, if anyone is interested in the debate about blaming black people for proposition 8, I have two posts on it at Uncommon Priors, arguing basically that even if there's a relationship between blackness and voting for proposition 8, the correct causal attribution is to the oppression that black people have suffered...

belle's recipe for beef, leek, barley and potato stew

Posted on November 10, 2008
My head hurts from reading too much and trying to write. Soup helps.Again, I looked at 20 recipes and didn't like any of them. Trust your instincts! Some recipes seem too easy and too bland. Trust your instincts! And your taste buds! Mine led me to add the extra steps of browning the meat, adding wine, spices, extra salt, eschewing bland water in favor of beef broth, and adding an extra pound of meat...

performativity and gender

Posted on November 09, 2008
Check out Amber's post, and then my response.

idiot leaders around the world

Posted on November 07, 2008
I never understood Berlusconi's high approval ratings, given his idiocy and crookedness. Seriously, the guy is like a real Godfather movie. Mafia? Seriously? I talked to one or two Italian LL.Ms. They don't get it either. Nor how he was re-elected. At least in a few months we won't have as strong a competitor for the "Most Idiotic World Leader" award.

Post-blogging NonDescript 11/4

Posted on November 07, 2008
Post this week was delayed by election tension, euphoria, gettin' back to work, and stuff.You can find the playlist and podcast here.And good morning, and welcome to another week in which Belle listens to cool music and bobs her head rhythmically but with an economy of motion and an abundance of decorum as she judges you, girl in the tube top, for gyrating and flailing about, detracting attention from the band so that you can get your sexy dance on...

A moment of schadenfreude

Posted on November 06, 2008
And to make up for it: a moment of beauty.(Also, re: the Crispin Sartwell reference, my appointment of him as my electionblogging proxy does not, of course, extend to the remark about Michelle Obama's clothes. But all the rest are pretty funny.)

belle's recipe for corn and butternut squash chowder

Posted on November 06, 2008
I looked at 20 recipes and didn't like any of them. So I made one up. It's really good! Sweet with a kick. To make vegetarian, substitute vegetable broth and take out the bacon. To make vegan, add twice the amount of pureed squash & corn to make the broth thick without milk, though you then might need more vegetable broth...

two people in search of a parade

Posted on November 05, 2008
We shouted and cheered along with a few hundred people at a movie theater-turned-into-election party. I got a little teary-eyed at many points. We jumped up and down the streets and hi-fived people. We honked our car horn. We got back to my neighborhood and walked up and down the streets, cheering and yelling and hi-fiving everyone...

Alternative election blogging...

Posted on November 05, 2008
I nominate Crispin Sartwell as my proxy for electionblogging. He is as politically cynical as I, but funnier. Seriously, read his election day miniposts. I want to quote the funny ones, but that would ruin it.

I Voted. Did You?

Posted on November 04, 2008
Obviously no pictures of me and my sticker, but you'll have to take my word for it. I went when the polls opened, and it took about an hour. And I'm not even in a battleground state, much less battleground precinct! On the rosters of registered voters there were few Republicans--I am telling you, I live in a liberal college town...

Open Letter on Prop 8

Posted on November 03, 2008
From a Friend:There is a proposition on the California ballot this year that directly impacts my life and I feel the need to do something about it before it is too late. It is very personal, and in my opinion, not something that should even be decided by a popular vote, as it is a matter of constitutional law (you know, the thing this country is supposed to be based on- all of us are created equal...

stomach, knots, twisted

Posted on November 03, 2008
This is your open thread for all things election. Me? Great weekend, and much food was eaten, but now I want to throw up.Vote For Change is great. My polling place is 75 feet away, or 2 seconds. I'm going to wake up super early and get there before 7 am, with my sample ballot filled out (it is an exhausting process in my state, as there are a number of dumbass propositions every year)...

Californian Political Nag.

Posted on November 01, 2008
Time is running out to beat this nasty thing. Volunteer and donate for no on prop 8. If I, a po' and incredibly busy grad student, can afford to kick 'em 50 bucks and volunteer for a few hours on election day, so can you.

Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2008
I hate this song:But I love this:I wanted to embed "Thriller," but they won't let me. :-(In other Halloween related news:Bryan D. Brown's scary playlist. Not your typical, and very cool!Eszter Hargittai takes pictures of a great Halloween house.The Little Professor provides an annotated and hyperlinked list of Madame Tussaud's gallery of Victorian murders...

I have to stop reading advice columns

Posted on October 30, 2008
Ooof: "Attractive men scare me, so I only date the ugly ones." See also, "I'm a princess in love with a troll."Reading bad things is not unlike eating the cheap, tacky candy corn and circus peanuts. You know it's the worst type of bad for you (so bad and not even good!), but you can't help it, and it's something to snack on in between helpings of Bourdieu...

Wherein Paul is Crafty (also cheap and lazy)

Posted on October 30, 2008
I was adrift in a sea of Halloween costume possibilities for this year, until my brilliant friend Lilit suggested that I go as a pothead by the simple expedient of putting a pot on my head. As this seemed like the ideal lazy and cheap person's costume (meta-perfect, since stoners are lazy!), of course I decided to go with it...

renewed ambivalence about celebrating my birthday

Posted on October 29, 2008
I totally made this for TD:I know, I know. I just posted hours ago on how I wanted to make myself a special dinner and cake and seemed really excited about it. But now I am recoiling from the inherent diva-ness of feting oneself. Is it not unlike throwing yourself a party at which you are the host and only guest, waving a sign that says "I Rule"?I have a complicated relationship with birthdays...

taking "green" to ridiculous extremes

Posted on October 29, 2008
I recycle, walk everywhere, take the bus or train, and haven't driven a car since I visited my folks for Memorial Day. I turn off the tap while washing dishes and rinse after and don't take bubble baths. I donate stuff to Goodwill rather than toss things...

belle's tips for cooking on a budget

Posted on October 28, 2008
This is for you, Paul.I have a post on Amber's blog talking about how I really try to contribute to my relationship in the non-economic ways that I can. Of course, after years of cooking and baking I have a pretty good stock of dry ingredients, tools, pans, etc...

where i've been

Posted on October 28, 2008
Working, not dealing with a backlog of emails and more work, and spending time with TD. Also, Amber's blog.I went to my first outdoor concert festival this weekend. It was everything I ever wanted from my first time. Magical, tender, and transcendent...

OrgTheory Spotlight: Cecilia Ridgeway

Posted on October 28, 2008
Today in OrgTheory, we highlight the work of Stanford sociologist Cecilia Ridgeway.From her faculty biography:Cecilia L. Ridgeway is the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences in the Sociology Department at Stanford University. She is particularly interested in the role that social hierarchies in everyday social relations play in the larger processes of stratification and inequality in a society...

It's My Birthday And I'll Bake If I Want To

Posted on October 28, 2008
Friday's my birthday. I am telling you because I am telling no one else. We're going to a couple of Halloween parties of some friends of TD's. While I hate the fact that Halloween steals my thunder, what I hate even more is when a lot of people pay attention to me, except on occasions when such attention is diffused into some collective ceremony in which I am not a primary focus (hence, my desire to elope or get one of my friends to get a Universal Life Church certificate)...

Belle for President.

Posted on October 28, 2008
Dudes, I've had enough. We're not making sufficient use of the wonderful Belle, purveyor of Cooking Wisdom and joy, and my hero in so many ways. She needs to stop being a grad student and start ruling. Belle for President. Or Queen. Whichever. (As long as I get to be minister of state security...

Cookblog III: What Price Popularity?

Posted on October 25, 2008
Before we start the next installment of Paul's Adventures in Chefdom, a plea to the public: Will someone please teach me how to shrink (e.g., halve) recipes? I get the obvious step (reduce all the ingredients proportionally). But presumably one doesn't cook, say, half the food for as long as one cooks the original recipe (as there's less mass to heat, and thus one would burn it)...

I shall call this recipe Memento Mori Chicken. Perhaps Suicide Chicken would be better.

Posted on October 22, 2008
As we learned from my last kitchen adventure, cooking is something I should only do under adult supervision. So I recruited some, in the form of my close friend Rachel. Another friend, Sarah, also tagged along, although she demurred from participating in the cooking, since she claims she can't cook at all...

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