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Shag posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:56:18 -0800

i heart walter benn michaels
At lbo, Dennis Claxton dropped a link to something Michael Berube wrote at his blog. Basically, Berube read the same Michaels I...
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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:35:03 -0800

dad
my dad died. so i’ll repost this weird thing i wrote once. i’d been up all night working and had this weird...
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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:45:41 -0800

nor’easter
no workee today because there’s a nor’easter pummeling the coast. i’m a tool, so i’ve been working,...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:20:25 -0800

i love biking to work
i just wanted to record how much i love riding my bike to work from my new digs. I’ve already said it, but I’m so...
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:18:34 -0700

a walk in the neighborhood
woohoo! that software for removing photos from my camera is keano-kewlo-neato-beano! Whammydine too! Now, I’m gonna...
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:00:09 -0700

i love my ex-mil
I baked an apple pie last night. I’d bought some apples to do a demonstration as part of a talk i had to give. They...
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:40:40 -0700

problems i’m glad to have
%*@)%#!$ i’m trying to change the position of the shelves in the kitchen. easy peasy, right? you just remove the shelf,...
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:46:48 -0700

fuck gossip
Doug Henwood tried to mock Carrol Cox for chiding people about using logical fallacy in their discussion of Gore Vidal. Doug...
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:20:10 -0700

pics at last! whee! but i miss k!
i finally got my software installed to retrieve my photos off my new camera! and now I’m missing K — the guy...
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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:23:24 -0700

swirly gigs
ha! i have so much fun riding my bike on mowbray arch. there is never any traffic, except joggers and dog walkers, and I feel...
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:59:47 -0700

*grumble* victorian morality *grumble*
sheesh! a friend of R’s gave him a bunch of XX movies years ago. They’ve been floating around in a box, going from...
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:49:57 -0700

making progress
Well, the unpacking is going along ok. Much faster than I’d expected. I’m so excited, as I’ve already...
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0700

little help — ice breaker suggestions?
Last week, at the last minute, the CIO asked me to give a presentation on the work I’ve been doing with a company-wide IT...
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:49:33 -0700

petty commodity fetishism!
the sink has a built in soap dispenser. the sprayer is part of the faucet. I’m in heaven! petty commodity fetishism at...
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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:57:08 -0700

how much should i tip movers?
how much am i supposed to tip movers. all i know is, at 135/hr for three guys, i think that’s wicked cheap they’re...
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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:48:40 -0700

religion has a lot more place in politics than race or culture do
Michaels chapter on religion is, I think, a skeleton key to what he’s about. He seems to have taken to heart whatever he...
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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:05:07 -0700

walter benn michaels: partial transcript of interview on Behind the News with Doug Henwood
and no, the point isn’t to ransack his text for incriminating evidence. the point is to explicate the entire damn...
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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:37:40 -0700

dicks ‘n’ dough
I’ve been using up crap in the cupboards and fridge. I had this tube of crescent rolls and some turkey sausage, so i just...
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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:55:23 -0700

the 80% who don’t go to Harvard
Chuck Grimes pointed me at a post about Walter Benn Michaels by Lou Proyect. I dropped by to ask him his opinion. I left the...
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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:45:47 -0700

it’s an either/or world out there man, don’t trouble yourself with distractions. get with the Walter Benn Michaels Experience!
Honestly, Walter Benn MIchaels really is a piece of work. I’ve been packing my stuff to move, and so I have plenty of...
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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:58:59 -0700

Mr 3 Names and selective tagging
so, one of the other things I didn’t address in Michaels’ text was this chapter, Just and Unjust Rewards. It seems...
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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:25:23 -0700

premodern lurv?
since a bunch of people i respect are recommending the work of hardt and negri, i started poking around reading reviews. i read...
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