http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 24 May 2013 10:31:32 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:31:32 Over the last 2 weeks I have had to "talk down" nervous friends and colleagues about the election. They are all worried, and I give em my view about some ways to feel positive about things, such as keeping busy, looking at all the great things the campaign is doing and how organized they are, sendin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/22 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:05:17 well, at least the sideburns, I don't know about the plaid....... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/16 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:44:43 Return DVDs to Blockbuster. Tell kid no, you can't rent an M game, plus you just got a bunch of games for your birthday

Tomorrow -Tai Chi and Mah-Johng. Then big family dinner for all the April birthdays at a cool Italian restaurant.
While I am gone, males appear to surgically attach themselves ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/19 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:17:06 and watch it over and over until they actually get the concept of compassion.

Like Sartre's No Exit. ;)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/13 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:41:51 I'm terrible, I know. Would Rent be their idea of hell? ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/14 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:11:49 and fortunately there are no extra reports hanging over my head. (well, at least I don't think there are!)

I was planning to go to lunch, sit outside and browse around at the mall until I have to pick the kid up from school.

Hope you both enjoy your breaks! :hi: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/15 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:46:16 the only restricted book I ever saw in my hometown library when I was a kid was Ulysses. So, since I worked there as a volunteer, I just checked it out "under the table." Of course, I didn't understand most of it ( and I was a very savvy, well-read kid) and had to wait a few years to really process... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/20 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:44:09 http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/dpa50/artblakey3.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/18 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:09:15 of course he wanted every video game known to man for presents.

I can't believe it, it's been an interesting decade! He's a very cool kid, and I'm really glad he came to be with us today, 10 years ago.

:party: :woohoo:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/17 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:05:10 or any board, I suppose. ALthough it may be Swag, he seems to be talented at allowing discussion to develop!

I had a friend/colleague who was a grad student who studied a certain type of psychology that had a very strong post-modern and philosophical sensibility. He and others in his program wer... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/10 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:02:06 every year I get a Creativity and Madness conference brochure in the mail(bunch of arty mental health folks analyze some post-modern questions about art as symptom and beyond) Whoa, there's another fascinating debate! ;)
Zappa, Beefheart, Syd Barrett.... GG Allin, Kevin Coyne?


The general que... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/9 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:06:43 that's saying something. I was really into those guys in the 70s. My best friend was obsessed with them and dragged me to several of their shows.

I mean a lot of those folks could REALLY play and play and play. But they had chops...

(damn me and my open-mindedness)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/12 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:31:35 I loved progrock when I was in high school and there is something to be said for it's classical and compositional underpinnings. But....that being said, it was way over the top!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/11 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:27:09 I'm guessing some drugs were involved in most of those spectacles of compositional excess, or am I wrong? ;)

there is obviously some early and later Grateful Dead stuff that is way experimentally over the top and the question is: where is the intersection of musical inspiration/improvisation and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/8 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:20:24 Our school is closed on Friday and Monday only, I'm not sure why, since many of the kids are Jewish and we have school on the day of and the day after Passover begins. :shrug:


We usually go out to dinner on Easter and that's it. My son seems to be heavily indifferent to the egg dyeing this year... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/7 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:30:54 it perpetuates itself
like a plague of glee

Swag that wily knave
wrought such bits of amusement
with his verdant thread

still some rail against
this level of bemusement
calling it foul names


:) ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/6 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:20:08 but for some reason the question made me think of this band....

http://www.thecatholicgirls.net/

I can't seem to post the pic of the cover I remember, but it was pretty amusing. I used to have albums by this band in the 80s, and apparently they are still together, as are Girlschool. (also some... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/21 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:26 was to SF last summer. It was amazing. So beautiful, so diverse, so interesting. We were in heaven and didn't want to come home. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/3 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:13:42 no one should have to live through such angst...


:sarcasm: :bounce: :party:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/5 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:58:15 many people with challenges have more sense than George. We really shouldn't insult them with the comparison. ;)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/1 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:29:37 with all the badges, etc. It was a lot of fun, I learned a lot and made good friends and went on some trips I would not have otherwise. I don't know where those crazy fundies come up with that shit. It's ridiculous.


And the organization is very pro-female and very interested in diversity and e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tigereye/2 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:51:29