Month: November 2009

Ron’s mom is with us for a few days while they sleep off the trip from the Philippines and then she flies back home to Milwaukee. This morning she told about her first job interview in the states. Previously, she’d worked in the audit department of the Marcos administration: “At the end of my first […]

From Gawker: Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new “Gameboys” and “contraception.” Fortunately your child’s dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a modeling agency, for sweet, sweet money. Horrible parents across America are selling off their children’s looks to make a few extra […]

Commenter on the death of Claude: I hear Lévi-Strauss tried to work for Levi Strauss, but they fired him for reducing all the jeans to their component denemes. Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort

Long comment from a commenter on Metafilter about women feeling threatened at any time of the day: I checked around me before going down the path, regardless, not really expecting anything. I didn’t see anyone. It was a very safe neighborhood anyway; we’d been picky about where we moved since I’d had enough bad experiences […]

Metaphorical and literal: The USS New York, its bow containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the fallen Twin Towers, passed under the Verrazano Bridge and entered New York Harbor at 7:10 a.m. It was escorted by four NYPD helicopters and a phalanx of Coast Guard and police boats as sailors and Marines manned loaded […]