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A foot in each world: April 2006
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A foot in each world. Tuesday, April 25, 2006. What the 666 sign is actually about. Maybe if I had and subsequently watched tv I might known earlier but alas. It was a fun exercise anyways. Posted by Austin Diaz at 7:45 AM. Saturday, April 22, 2006. Things I struggle with. A large, black billboard stands blank except for plain white writing spread across in the center. The Signs Are All Around You. A younger gentleman in a yellow t-shirt with red writing that says There’s hope in Jesus echoes this sentim...
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A foot in each world: May 2006
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A foot in each world. Tuesday, May 23, 2006. And days seem like weeks. We, the congregation, were sharing the peace before partaking in the Eucharist. I approached her silently, partly of my own volition, partly from the urging of another who kindly meddles in the affairs of others. And she just grabbed me, wrapping her arms around my back and I enfolded mine about her shoulders. But in the moments when she flipped the page or rummaged for a new sheet of music her face contorted to this grimace, not ugly...
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A foot in each world: January 2006
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A foot in each world. Tuesday, January 31, 2006. The Return of the King. A dark shadow had been cast across the kingdom of West Philadelphia. Cold winter rested in the rooms where the radiator no longer worked. And the great seat of the king found in the great chamber of the kingdom stood empty, only the echoing sobs of the common folk to keep it company. O, how nice a thought that would be! I raised my troubled head and there he was. The goatee was still there, as was the close cropped hair and he w...
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Second Thoughts: July 2005
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Books Art Critical Theory Music New York. One thing that's great about New York is fire escapes. I sit outside in the humidity and watch what I have fortuitously calculated to be about 68% of traffic: cabs. I started a job at The Economist. Also, a bus picks me up across the street and economically drops me off ten feet from the door to the office. The heat in this town is off the charts, so the more spare one's movements (in a dress shirt, no less), the better. Published Tuesday, July 26, 2005. I got a ...
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Second Thoughts: May 2006
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Books Art Critical Theory Music New York. A Pretentious Dialogue on Borges and Judas and a Philosophy of Fiction (Part 1 of? NOTE: If you haven’t read Jorge Luis Borges' story "The Three Versions of Judas", you can find it here. You should read it before you read this, and it's only a few pages anyway. Can you explain further what you mean about causality in reality versus literature? Much of this comes from an essay on Borges called Borges and the Plain Sense of Things. You say that a factual account of...
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Second Thoughts: June 2006
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Books Art Critical Theory Music New York. Umberto Eco on the Holy War of Mac vs. PC. He wrote this in 1994, back when Windows (which resembles Mac-style graphical "cheerful" interface) was just an overlay to the free-for-all, text-based, highly customizable DOS structure. Now, DOS is done and gone, and you can't dig deep into the code to make bizarre, unchristened customizations (cults? To your interface, as it were. You're stuck with a priest interpreting scriptures for you. Looks like a fun room.
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A foot in each world: February 2006
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A foot in each world. Thursday, February 23, 2006. Every Thursday the North American marketing team has its weekly conference call at 4 pm This semester I have class from 2-4 on Thursdays, so I've been having to take these calls on my cell phone instead of the usual pay phone because I can't get to one inside quick enough to make the call. Austin could you do me a favor? Could you take notes from this call and send them out to the rest of us later? I think we should allocate funds to advertise in specifi...
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A foot in each world: December 2005
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A foot in each world. Thursday, December 15, 2005. It all means so much.5-1. Sorry this is posted extremely early but I must succumb to the fact that I'm taking a final later today and that I must afterwards study until I take my last final tomorrow morning. 5) Spoon Gimme Fiction. Over Thanksgiving my brother and I were driving up to Louisville and he asked, Hey can we listen to Spoon? 4) Wolf Parade Apologies to Queen Mary. When I first heard the name Wolf Parade I quietly thought to myself, That’s may...
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A foot in each world: March 2006
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A foot in each world. Sunday, March 12, 2006. After a suprisingly good Metric show the group of us found ourselves at "The Tai Lake" in the middle of Philadelphia's Chinatown at 1:15 am There was a large family next to us, young children and all, celebrating the grandfather's birthday. They talked boisterously switching back and forth between Chinese and English. You not locals.". You not from America, right? The answers were quite interesting. Veronica, who was born in El Salvadore, and has beautiful br...
