Studs Terkel passed away today. There is a certain sadness in my and rIAm’s hearts today with this news. Studs was 96, and not in the greatest of health the last few years, and, apparently, especially so the last two weeks. So he had a darn good run, and boy did he make the best [...]
Posts under ‘Hero’
Dreams from Barack Obama
(hello? Hello?? HELLO??? Why hello there! Where have you been? Pouring my soul into my work. Oh, I see. Well, welcome back! Grazie!)
Oh, happy day!
It’s taken only 36 hours to hit me. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic party presidential nomination.
I watched his Minnesota rally speech live two nights ago, and as stirring as [...]
“No business, no rice.”
I’ve known for many, many years — probably since I was a child — that rice is a staple of the Asian diet. It was just like that, a simple, bare and almost uninteresting fact, rice is a staple of the Asian diet. However, since jft and I have immersed ourselves in Asian culture and [...]
Neil Young kicks ass
Currently submerged in wedding planning, end of term school work and oh yeah, work at my job… but taking time to surface to point you to the new Neil Young album. It’s hands down the best protest album of the George-Fucking-Bush reign of terror. If that doesn’t turn you on to this masterpiece of rocking [...]
Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein
For those of you at home not keeping score, today marks the 127th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birth.
I’ve long held Einstein as a personal hero of mine. It helps that we share the same birthday. But more importantly I respect him for how he revolutionized science, held strong pacifist beliefs, balanced his scientific work with [...]
Noam Chomsky: Hero, also* making the universe explode in my head
It was only yesterday that I learned that Noam Chomsky is a linguist and that he works at MIT.
I first heard of Chomsky when I was about 20. In all the time that I have known of him, I thought he was a political theorist and commentator with a think tank organization. The only [...]
Ginger ale receives a hero’s welcome in my tummy
I’m trying to focus and get things done. I really am.
But the nausea has become unbearable and now the spinning sensation when I try to read my screen is just adding to the fun.
No, I am not pregnant. I am taking antibiotics whose side effects include headache and nausea.
You see, I went to [...]
Who’s my hero?
So if there were a competition going on to see who has gotten the most posts up in the first week of our starting this blog, we all know j. would be winning. And to that I say, in a sing-song voice: Who’s my (Internet) hero?
I am not feeling that particularly competitive at the moment [...]
