is it just me, or is blogger.com really fast all of a sudden? ;)
I've been keeping my books page fairly up to date. I notice I've been reading lots of history lately. I picked up a few used books this weekend, and they were mostly history. I'm looking forward to A History of Private Life edited by Georges Duby. Though I won't be able to read it all at once. I've already started bouncing around in it. I wonder if hypertext and the linking nature of the Internet has changed the way I read...or if I've always read this way. Some books I do read in a linear way. I'm blazing straight through The Federalist Papers Reader (trying to better understand this crazy republican not democratic form of government). I know I can read them free on the Internet, but this book distills them down to key sections...and provides groovy commentary. It's interesting when you read them as "constitutional propoganda" (they were written to pursuade people to ratify the constitution) instead of sacred texts. Federalist No. 10 has some great stuff about the value of keeping the electorate a certain distance from the government. It's especially relevant with all of this electoral college and process and "fair" and "accurate" stuff in the news. shew, I'm rambling. It was a good break...back to work tomorrow. and so on.
TNI Books Online: Postcards and Audio Letters compiled by Damien Jurado sounds like an interesting CD: "he's built a small library of audio letters, phone conversation snippets and random conversations documented on tape with boom boxes and answering machine recorders. You heard (and will probably continue to hear) bits and pieces of these recordings in some of Damien's songs. When he told us about the project, he looked convincing and said: 'It's real life.'" This publisher has several blogs.
honk if you demand satisfaction.
what he said. (and mad props should be sounding throughout the blog universe for the Java wizardry of matt. woop.)
I picked up a great CD this weekend. Dave Brubeck's Time Out. It's so laid back. Perfect for a lazy fall Sunday like this. He reminds me of Vince Guaraldi (or vice-versa)...and though it's a bit too early now, I'm looking forward to listening to my favorite Christmas CD soon. Anyway, this is the kind of album I hear and think, why haven't I heard this sooner?
more radio madness: Heard H. J. de Blij discuss geography. It was interesting to hear him speak because from his perspective, most social change flows from environmental change. He also had several stories about maps solving social problems; including snow's cholera map.
Gary Snyder said: "The world is our consciousness and it surrounds us."
Day Without Weblogs is coming. Last year, I put up this page in place of the one you're looking at now. (it looks kind of like my old design.)
I went out to breakfast with the (p)B-List this morning. Well, it wasn't so much going out to breakfast as it was toasting a bagel and eating it on the way to work. There was much lively discussion about what I should do first at work, and talk of this post. There was also a unanimous vote not to increase the number of members past one in order to perpetuate the belief that the list in fact exists. I wasn't satisfied with this result so I thought about starting a new, more exclusive group with fewer members, but realized I would never join such a radical organization. What was I thinking? meeting time: 15 minutes.