This morning I opened my email to find a letter from a friend who had stumbled on an essay I wrote over 11 years ago. (Which is a long time when you’re not out of your 30s yet.) Having little idea of what I’d said back then, I investigated. The piece, called “The Many Names …
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To Top Off the Housecleaning
I’ve updated my blogroll. Hopefully, I’ve added everyone who’s linked to me, whom I read, or who sent me an email saying “I have a blog.” If I missed you, let me know.
Press Wrapup–Part II
Today I went to CBC’s studio for a taped interview. They were interviewing me about my “Inaudible City” talk at the Champ Libre conference last weekend. Which was really cool except there’s something about starting at and speaking into a Neumann microphone . . .
Press Wrapup–Part I
So two of the interviews I gave appeared in print, and the gun quote appeared in both. Which makes me think in some small way it was worthwhile. I’ve reproduced the Montreal Gazette piece below. You can read the Hour piece here. There’s only one obvious problem with the Hour piece: never in my life …
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have been underused on this blog. From here on out, following the del.icio.us model, they will be overused. I just tagged up the front page in like 1 minute. Now I’m off to breakfast.
Atheistic Drinks at Lunch on Campus
So I was speaking on the phone with a friend last night who has just moved from Canada to take an academic job in the U.S. So I did to her what all the Canadians did to me when we arrived here. “So? What’s it like? What are the differences? Have you considered starting a …
“Everything by Rage Against the Machine”
was the title of an essay I never wrote about Clear Channel’s banned songs list after 9/11/2001. That phrase appeared in a list of songs that were not to be played on Clear Channel stations. Rage was the only band to be completely banned. Though I imagine there wasn’t a lot of Jefferson Airplane or …