13 Jun 2006, 10:32 a.m.

Love, Marriage, and Google PageRank

Broadsheet linked to me - neato!

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13 Jun 2006, 9:35 a.m.

Old Religion, New Tradition

U.S. Muslims Confront Taboo on Nursing Homes. One community leader is building a nursing home attached to a mosque, to make the transition easier. Good for him.

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11 Jun 2006, 19:16 p.m.

Sunday Politics/Church Lecture

On my brother-in-law-in-law's blog, some people got to wrangling over the LDS church's position on a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage. Some proponents of it played the religion card ("The prophet speaks, I …

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11 Jun 2006, 8:52 a.m.

MC Masala on Being From Elsewhere

One always feels like a country rube in a new place. Paradoxically, my new colleague said, everyone knows someone from Sunnyvale, but no one actually is from Sunnyvale. We kicked this idea around near the …

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10 Jun 2006, 19:24 p.m.

More Art

MoCCA - hard to find, but once we found it, hard to get away without finding moths in our wallets. Leonard and I played rather prominent extras in Episode 12 of Uncle Morty's Dub Shack, …

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10 Jun 2006, 9:12 a.m.

Art Today

MoCCA Art Festival, today and tomorrow, featuring the Overcompensating guy, the Goats guy, R Stevens from Diesel Sweeties, and Ryan North of Qwantz. Sarah alerted Leonard and me, Adam's coming along, it'll be a party! …

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08 Jun 2006, 14:05 p.m.

Bollywood Samples

In case you've never seen a really amusing Bollywood dance number, here are a few good videos off YouTube. "Jan Pehechan-Ho", a sixties classic, made famous by Ghost World. The aesthetic also reminds me of …

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08 Jun 2006, 12:42 p.m.

That's Edutainment

Sometimes the TV spreadsheet magazines in the Sunday newspaper have summaries of what happened in the soap operas over the previous week. When I see one of those, I scan each summary for a mention …

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08 Jun 2006, 9:05 a.m.

In Which A Twilight Zone Episode Is Emulated

So, evidently, if you show up for a party at a major record label in an eight-year-old Napster t-shirt, some employees of the label do not take that in the playful and ironic spirit in …

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07 Jun 2006, 14:15 p.m.

Snapshot

On my desk right now, I have a mug of tea, a pencil, a pen, a Sharpie, some business cards, a box of paper clips, two sticky-note pads, an empty snack bowl, and a plastic …

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