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Monday, May 24, 2004

Blog Genesis

onion_nebulaOn the ten-millionth-gazillionth day, God said, "Let there be blogs."

(Apparently, blogs weren't a particularly high priority during the construction of the Earth's biosphere, despite blogospheric rumors to the contrary.)

And there were blogs.

And God saw that although some blogs were good, most were not. In fact, most sucked. So God created more blogs, and more, and more, until the fractured self-indulgent confusion of each was absorbed and subsumed in the higher order of the whole.

Then God said, "It is good," and she turned her attention back to things that mattered a bit more.

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Lovin' it man ... introduced with a Genesis parody. good stuff!

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  • Through holding together, restraint is certain to come about. The yielding obtains the decisive place, and those above and those below correspond with it. Strong and gentle; the strong is central and its will is done. This is called the Taming Power of the Small.
    — The I Ching, hexagram 9: Hsiao Chu / The Taming Power of the Small

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Highlights

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    Rene Javier Perez took leave of his wife Miliana Morales and their 2-month-old daughter Gladys in the Guatemalan town of Chiquimula. Unfortunately, the years did not unfold as planned. Sometimes you just can't summon the strength to fight for yourself anymore; sometimes you stop believing that things will get any better; worst of all, sometimes it's true.
  • Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares in the White Supremacist Cauldron (May-2007)
    The tired, the poor, the huddled masses of dream-hungry immigrants coming across the Pacific — like those coming across the deserts and rivers along the Southern US border — have never been greeted by a Mother of Exiles.
  • President McKinney (Oct-2007)
    The whole notion of "electability" is a profoundly misguided and anti-democratic concept. There's a reason elementary schoolteachers ask children to put their heads down on their desks before voting by show of hands: they're learning to make independent decisions. Asking which candidate is more "electable" pre-emptively marginalizes one's own value as a unique perceiver and one's agency as a democratic participant.
  • Protesting a War of Cowards and Madmen (Oct-2002)
    As much as the invasion of Iraq is a coward's war, it's also a madman's war, and there's a dangerous intersection between cowardice and madness where many acts of horror originate.
  • The Obama-Clinton Show (Mar-2008)
    I tend to view the whole spectacle of presidential politics as a grand charade during which tremendous national energy gets spent endlessly chattering about which pre-approved palatable public figure is to be the next temporary PR/sales representative of the global neo-imperialist gangster state.
  • The White Liberal Conundrum (Oct-2007)
    Many of my POC friends would actually prefer to hang out with an Archie Bunker-type who spits flagrantly offensive opinions, rather than a colorblind liberal whose insidious paternalism, dehumanizing tokenism, and cognitive indoctrination ooze out between superficially progressive words.

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    Xu Beihong's work visually manifests a meaningful and mutually-beneficial cultural encounter between China and the West.

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    Midsummer, the woods of Southwestern Connecticut buzz with bright pastoral magic. This gallery attempts to capture a quick arbitrary sliver of that brightness. Most of these pictures were taken in my immediate neighorhood; some were shot at Wampus Pond; some at the Audubon Fairchild Wildflower Garden.

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