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l-o-v-e

Posted on October 21, 2008
My megapost on love is up at Scatterplot.

drek on the presidential race, stealing yard signs, racial profiling, and white privilege/guilt

Posted on October 21, 2008
Or at least, that's the best way I can describe this post, which inspired excellent and insightful comments. I'm still sorting out my own thoughts. I tend to agree with Olderwoman and Gradmommy, but I always do. Still, good question about whether I would have told the police...

live blogging non-descript 10/21

Posted on October 21, 2008
And good morning, and welcome to another week in which Belle learns about new bands and gets hip and makes tons of '90s references, because that's when her musical education began and ended with large gaps because she grew up in Orange County, home of ska and thuggin' wannabes...

you people all look alike

Posted on October 21, 2008
This kid reminds me of Rick Astley (who has the deepest voice and the dorkiest dance moves). I like the song (actually, both songs), because I am a sucker for earnest pop, but I don't predict a long career for him when he gets older and still looks that young...

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Why Obama's campaign creeps me out sometimes.

Posted on October 20, 2008

moral reasons, causes, decision-making

Posted on October 20, 2008
When I read this article, I immediately thought of this article.

weekend report

Posted on October 20, 2008
Not bad. The food I made turned out really well, and there was dim sum, a science museum, and burritos, and then a lot of lounging about and reading and working. In my head, science museums are a bit bigger and more impressive, but that's because I watched movies with gigantic replicas of tyrannosaur bones and in which you could see the glass-encased progression of evolution from monkey to man...

ew.

Posted on October 20, 2008
Squicky, vaguely Oedipal-y Modern Love column here:It was true: Why would anyone not love Sarvis? He was bright, self confident ? sometimes tender, endearingly spaced out ? and could keep a steady drumbeat in music class. And the brown ringlets he?d had since he was a baby still hung in heart-stopping whorls down his neck when he refused to brush his hair...

why do you hate america's freedom? get out there and shop, or the terrorists win!

Posted on October 17, 2008
Gah, on the well-shod heels of Gwyneth Paltrow (whose shopping guides are so asinine), comes J.Crew, the latest contender for the economic turmoil insensitivity awards. The headline: J.Crew Gets Uppity. I kid you not:?THE timing is very ironic, I know,? said Millard S...

election law in the news

Posted on October 17, 2008
I'm a big fan of Rick Hasen's Election Law Blog, and from the archives is his great Slate article on the American Center for Voting Rights--and its decline. And from Dahlia Lithwick, a great article on ACORN and undermining voter confidence.Read! And then vote!

post-debate thoughts

Posted on October 16, 2008
1. Obama was on fire! He killed! And yet he remained largely unruffled, while McCain looked half-crazed and ready to break out a can of whup ass2. If they use that baby as a campaign tactic one more time, I'm going to have to smack someone and make them watch "Life Goes On...

bust a move

Posted on October 16, 2008
I will shamelessly admit that I almost wish I had a bustier and a pair of bike shorts and would totally dance like that if no one was looking.

speaking of music...

Posted on October 16, 2008
Via OrgTheory's Brayen, a great article by sociologist Jenn Lena on how people create music genres.Brayden's description:The paper, coauthored with Richard Peterson, is about how people create new music genres, a process generalizable to the construction of symbolic classification systems...

Post-blogging Non-Descript 10/13 Show

Posted on October 16, 2008
I have decided to do a new Tuesday series. Yes, people, I know today is Thursday. But every Tuesday, our own Bryan D. Brown has a radio show on KCSB called "Nondescript." You can get the feed for the podcast here. Incidentally, how is it that I just recently, as in two months ago, caught onto this podcast thing? This American Life and NonDescript and Studio360 delivered to my Itunes player without me having to coordinate fireside chat dates (which I used to do in high school)? Oh, joy!Anyway, for the past few shows, I've been "live-emailing" Bryan my silly thoughts on his picks, which is really fun...

John Cleese on Sarah Palin

Posted on October 16, 2008
Because if you can't laugh at Sarah Palin... well, you might just start crying.

why I am voting in person rather than absentee

Posted on October 16, 2008
For one, there's no excuse--the polling place is across the street from me. This is a marked difference than my time in Orange County, where for my first election (2000, sigh) it was in some church in some part of town I was unfamiliar with and I had to drive for a while to find it...

I still hate you, Lisa Belkin.

Posted on October 16, 2008
When you write a bogus trend article about the opt-out revolution by interviewing a non-random sample of your acquaintances, I say "good riddance" to your "farewell" Life's Work column (found, delightfully as ever, in the Fashion and Style section). Of course, what is most shocking is Belkin's apparent framing of her role as the (finally!) catalyst for open and honest dialogue and even system-wide change, although she politely nods to social, economic, and structural forces too: Women who had been soldiers in the fight for equality were furious, at me and at the women I profiled, for turning their backs on the cause...

race baiting

Posted on October 14, 2008
Is anyone else worried that all of the vituperative race baiting at the McCain rallies portends an inauguration day assassination of President Obama?I never would have thought that I would see a viable campaign for a Black president so early in my lifetime...

I have talented friends

Posted on October 14, 2008
An old friend from undergrad (ok, we didn't get along at all in undergrad, mainly because we were both obnoxious kids, but we're friends now) has made this cute little video.He also makes serious stuff -- he did the film festival circuit for a while and won a couple awards with a documentary about his fucked-up parents -- which was a little (ok, a lot, embarrassingly) TMI for me, but that seems to be the zeitgeist, so more power to him.

elsewhere

Posted on October 14, 2008
I am still contributing to my online epistolary exchange with Amber. She has expressed an exhortation to bring on the snark, and you can find evidence of that here.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Posted on October 13, 2008
Somehow, between the Dr. John lyrics from the last post, and the craving for red beans and rice, I've gone into a full New Orleans nostalgia tailspin. I lived in NOLA from spring 2003-spring 2004, and in most ways, it was a disaster -- my car got stolen, I was falsely arrested, I ended up doing financially ruinous things in the local music industry...

weekend report

Posted on October 13, 2008
Extremely awesome, from a really nice treat on Friday evening to really lazy gluttony day Saturday, to sailing today. While cool planes doing cool things flew overhead. How was your weekend? In other news, I am reading for fun Erik Larson's "Thunderstruck," and am extremely excited to find a $3 copy of a Nathaniel West two-fer novella set that I hadn't read before...

roll out my coffin/drink poison in my chalice/pride begins to fade/ and y'all feel my malice

Posted on October 12, 2008
Yes, those (lyrics to Dr. John's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters") are the most appropriate food-sounding lines I can find to express the usual consequences of my cooking. I think my culinary skills are, on the whole, less potent than the Night Tripper's musical voodoo curses, but just as malevolent...

tony! toni! tone'!

Posted on October 10, 2008
Who doesn't love a band that plays with homophones and punctuation? Check out those fly ruffle cuffs.

where in the world is belle lettre

Posted on October 09, 2008
Over at Amber's blog, beginning our epistolary exhange style of blogging. I'm waitin' on you, Amber.

California voters: REGISTER NOW.

Posted on October 08, 2008
This is horrible: A new CBS 5 poll finds that California's Proposition 8 has picked up support in the wake of a television ad campaign that features footage of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proclaiming same-sex marriage is here to stay "whether you like it or not...

how blogging changed john b.'s life

Posted on October 08, 2008
What a great post. Read it.I want to pick up this meme when the work slog slows down a little after 7 pm tomorrow (and after I finish my mega post) and then tag Amber and Paul.

when blogging is like work

Posted on October 08, 2008
When you have been gearing up to write (for weeks) and then spend an hour writing and still do not finish a mega post on the sociology of culture as applied to the problem of love but trying to be serious in your discussion of heuristics, schemas, and the other minds problem, blogging feels a lot like work...

our far flung reporter

Posted on October 08, 2008
Reporting from the music library today. I was sitting next to this girl who was clearly actually studyin gmusic, which most people in this library do not (I see law students for sure, but there's other departments too as this is the only air conditioned library on campus)...

inverse and converse

Posted on October 06, 2008
You can design your own kicks at Converse. Question: what would look better/be more traditional/not look stupid: a parchment rubber sidewall that has contrast racing stripes, or one that has no contrast stripes? Question 2: Should the heel stripe be the same color as the rest of the shoe, or would it not look stupid if it were a different color?Question 3: Is adding a monogram-like personalization on the heel stripe cool, or does that seem like writing your name on a jacket because there are too many hipsters at this shoes-at-the-door themed Soup-and-Cupcakes dinner party and must thus disambiguate, or are a child/developmentally disabled person who must be reminded of his/her name or would fear losing his/her own shoes if they were not on his/her own feet? I'm tending towards "awesome," but I'm one of those not-a-badass preppies who owns a L...

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