tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56582242011-04-21T15:23:45.879-05:00Blogojevich-the blog of me, for you.Quality words, quality links.
Contact me at drew_reynolds_tnATyahoo.comReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-42715812622212991232008-03-23T16:43:00.000-05:002008-03-23T16:45:15.614-05:00I'm wrapping it up here at Blagojevich and, as befits a late adopter, moved to LiveJournal. You can find me at nerdypapi60625See you there.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-46500498860314027852007-08-19T22:07:00.000-05:002007-08-19T22:16:10.697-05:00I'm beginning to check out options for planning a trip to Nashville, TN and then to Kentucky. My dad lives in Benton, about 30 minutes from Paducah. Alex has convinced himself that it will be charming, like cottage country in Ontario.Paducah manages to be both rural and charmless, like a little hunk of Northern New York State. I went looking around You Tube and discovered the apparent Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-14965710529868420072007-08-01T23:44:00.000-05:002007-08-02T00:04:36.396-05:00I'm not doing such a good job of the posting to the blog of late. New job, long hours, family health crisis, etc.But you know who is totally blogging? Jimmie "J.J." Walker. You know, the "Dy-no-mite!" guy from Good Times. Check it out. Ellipsis up, paragraphing down! From JJ Facts:The term "maximizing one's potential" could have been coined to describe the life of Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-76844189294496028482007-07-21T22:30:00.000-05:002007-07-21T22:34:15.841-05:00I'm sad that Tammye Faye Bakker/Messner has died although I'm grateful for the news for two reasons:1) There is a different, non-Iraq story that isn't about dog fighting and intense cruelty to animals2) Tammye Faye's death from colon cancer comes on the same day that Bush had some polyps removed from HIS colon so perhaps the two will end up linked photographically for a new cycle or two and I'm Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-65421778780760554662007-07-04T10:03:00.000-05:002007-07-04T10:07:28.620-05:00In my mind, Bush is almost gone. But of course he still has heaps of time, plenty of opportunity to do enormous, terrible things.If I was a White House advisor looking to shore up the Bush legacy, I might suggest that the president steal an idea from Bob Barker and push for a national program to spay and neuter pets.Of course the way this would play out would be that the administration would Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-90692918070376312322007-06-10T08:07:00.000-05:002007-06-10T08:43:59.838-05:00I'm newly fascinated/horrified by the story of Tennesseean Georgia Tann.Tann, who died in 1950, was something of a pioneer in the field of adoption. One of her innovations was to create entirely fictional biographies of the children. According to Tann, all of the birth fathers were accomplished professionals, all the birth mothers were college graduates. These were lies but it helped her to Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-47186014767425935722007-05-25T06:24:00.000-05:002007-05-25T06:31:48.843-05:00I'm into this artist's work. Chris Jordan uses photo illustration to convey large, abstract statistical numbers.For instance, Americans use 2 million plastic beverage bottles every five minutes. So there is one big-ass photograph that shows 2 million bottles. Another shows 426,000 cell phones (the number discarded every day in the U.S.) another shows 29,569 handguns (the number of gun-related Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-52645029458684412722007-05-11T07:05:00.000-05:002007-05-11T07:09:01.095-05:00Two things:1) Last night I took the last class of my undergraduate career. After I pay the school that outstanding $0.75, I should be receiving my degree in journalism.2) So, a degree in journalism...from today's Los Angeles Times:James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-74118557982520634062007-04-21T19:34:00.000-05:002007-04-21T19:55:17.979-05:00One of the ideas that they really hammer in journalism school is the evil of PR. I have heard relatively little about public officials or corporate executives who may mislead reporters but I've heard a lot about the inherent wickedness of the press kit.The press kit, for those who don't know, is to journalism what Lunchables are to a meal. A press kit has some pictures, video or sound if that'sReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-89057559921255573172007-04-13T14:58:00.000-05:002007-04-13T15:26:02.436-05:00I realize that the world does not need yet one more blogger weighing in on Don Imus but these two things are on my mind so I'm putting them down here:1)I am fully aware that one can turn on the radio and find any number of ineptly-bleeped mentions of hoes, nappy headedness, etc. in contemporary popular music. This, to me, is an unconvincing line of argument.If you make fun of your mother, that'sReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-36903701203565432222007-03-27T12:03:00.000-05:002007-03-27T12:04:37.820-05:00Last week was spring break so I should have been a blogging fiend but no such luck. Seven weeks until I am a degreed bachelor and until then, here's a handy quote:"You must sleep some time between lunch and dinner, and no half-way measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do. Don't think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That's a foolish Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-70460376539241620962007-02-17T09:23:00.000-06:002007-02-17T09:34:19.564-06:00Alex is in town and we spent a good chunk of last night discussing the upcoming Chicago mayoral election. Alex's question was, if Daley's administration is so corrupt, why is he such a shoo-in for re-election?I guess I've gone native because 1)The question seemed strange to me-corruption? Yeah, so what's your point? and 2)I compared it to Clinton/Lewinsky where part of the country was outraged Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-74132506148370176862007-02-13T18:40:00.000-06:002007-02-13T11:31:15.413-06:00Okay, they closed down Lakeshore Drive because of the snow and sent us home from school. If not a snowpacalypse then perhaps a major snowfu.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-75814816755626836752007-02-13T11:27:00.000-06:002007-02-09T11:18:27.017-06:00Snow! Yes, to the apparent shock of everyone with a media job in Chicago, it snows here! Sometimes quite a lot! Or, as the Daily Southtown put it:Snowmageddon has arrived!Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-36402111791284542282007-02-09T11:15:00.000-06:002007-02-07T14:36:48.447-06:00Goodbye Anna Nicole. It seems to me you lived your life like a candle being urinated on by a drunken frat boy.I hope things work out better for you in the next world. This one seemed pretty rough.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-73885778699277604882007-02-07T14:35:00.000-06:002007-02-07T14:36:49.329-06:00Find your own pose!Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-66878761255801532812007-02-03T08:22:00.000-06:002007-02-03T08:37:58.551-06:00I suck at predicting the future. For instance, there was a period last spring where I went on and on to my dad and brother about how I thought Joe Biden really seemed plausible as a candidate for president. Although while on the presidential timeline, I'm going to say that McCain will exit the race because of his role in the S&L crisis of the late 80's, not because of Iraq or being Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1168669991822618042007-01-13T00:17:00.000-06:002007-01-13T00:33:13.116-06:00I saw the play Fat Pig last weekend and it's taken me a while to process it. It 's by Neil LaBute and it turns out he's one of those artists that people have a definite opinion about. This opinion is very often, "Ugh, no." I can understand why someone would think that although I find him entertaining although I don't wish he and I could hang out or anything.The play is about a guy who falls inReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1168522465732360022007-01-11T07:34:00.000-06:002007-01-11T07:36:48.946-06:00Tom Shales, television critic of the Washington Post, thinks W's necktie was blue. So perhaps my theory is all fucked up. Anyway he has this note:CBS viewers, especially those who are always suspecting the network of tilting left, may have been jolted by the recorded announcement played during the closing credits of "Armed & Famous," the show that preceded the president's speech on the network.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1168484687704246162007-01-10T20:57:00.000-06:002007-01-10T21:04:48.803-06:00I haven't heard this in a long time, but when I was a teenager, I remember hearing conservatives complain that the word "gay" had been unfairly appropriated by homosexuals and that there was now one less adjective available for use by ordinary, non-sodomites. "They took a perfectly good word and hijacked it."I thought of this while looking at pictures of W's speech on the web (I listened on the Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1167229467249007652006-12-27T08:20:00.000-06:002006-12-27T08:24:27.786-06:00The press can hardly say enough good things about James Brown and rightly so. As for poor Gerald Ford, well the NY Times does a classic job of damning with faint praise:He might have been the nice guy down the street suddenly put in charge of the nation, and if he seemed a bit predictable, he was also safe, reliable and reassuring. He placed no intolerable intellectual or psychological burdens Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1166545045212401352006-12-19T10:08:00.000-06:002006-12-19T10:17:26.070-06:0060 MINUTES did a story this past Sunday about a find of documents created by the Nazis during the holocaust. I'm assuming that the timing of this story had more to do with refuting the recent Iranian holocaust-denial-palooza than with bringing up lousy memories for the tribe at Hanukkah. I mean, it's different to imagine 60 MINUTES doing an expose on The Crusades, say, at Christmas.That's not Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1165100141127987882006-12-02T16:54:00.000-06:002006-12-02T16:55:41.396-06:00The best part about having one's superpowers be cuddles is that you get to wear cut off sweats and tube socks instead of a lycra caped thingy.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1165099926875347582006-12-02T16:51:00.000-06:002006-12-02T16:52:07.110-06:00Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1164942916744142562006-11-30T21:07:00.000-06:002006-12-01T06:51:46.883-06:00It's going to snow tonight. The temperature has dropped about 35 degrees since yesterday afternoon and the sky is milky.Of course the rule of television news is that you have to send a camera crew out to the airport (because flights are delayed due to snow--this is, you know, news) and WGN has, indeed, sent someone out to O'Hare to determine that, even though there is no actual snow yet, there Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1163984693287054152006-11-19T19:03:00.000-06:002006-11-19T19:04:53.616-06:00In Toronto for the week. Last night we attended a gay wedding and, as part of the reception, ate unbelievably gay salads. What, you may ask, tags a salad as being identifiably homosexual? Two words: grilled cantaloupe.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1163215651154819092006-11-10T21:05:00.000-06:002006-11-10T21:27:31.483-06:00There are some pop cultural phenomena that I just avoid in the hopes that they will go away (see: Danity Kane) but Kevin Federline has crossed over into some deeply weird realm where he is worth paying attention to just for the car wreck factor (see: Courtney Love)It's worth remembering every now and again that marketing and nepotism will only get you so far. As a side note, this is the most Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1163010910656216602006-11-08T12:31:00.000-06:002006-11-08T12:51:01.083-06:00Listening to the Bush press conference where he came right out and said that he lied to a trio of journalists about his support for Rumsfeld because he thought that would be more advantageous than telling the truth. Amazing. From Ana Marie Cox, liveblogging the press conference at Time:1:12: "I didn't want to inject a major decision about the war into the final days of the campaign." Even Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1163001256714743152006-11-08T09:41:00.000-06:002006-11-08T09:54:17.080-06:00One exciting, old-school bit of apparent election stealing going on here in Chicago yesterday.Chicago is in Cook County and there is a post called Cook County President. I'm not entirely clear what the position does, other than hand out patronage jobs. The incumbent was a man named John Stroger who won the primary back in the spring in spite of the fact that he had suffered a massive stroke andReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1162963100293311362006-11-07T23:00:00.000-06:002006-11-07T23:18:20.766-06:00Recently I watched the documentary The Last Man Standing about a 2002 race in Texas where cute Democrat Patrick Rose defeated incumbent and self-described "right wing nut" Rick Green in a race for a seat in the state legislature.Today, the right wing nut tried to beat up his former opponent outside their polling place in the dreadfully named community Dripping Springs. From the Austin American Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1162924704177739762006-11-07T12:32:00.000-06:002006-11-07T12:38:25.736-06:00I should really pace myself so that I don't totally over-nerd myself too early in the day. However, dorky though this is, I am kind of proud that Jack Shafer at Slate used my tip (and my name) in his story about Lame Election-Day Journalism.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1162923096092948372006-11-07T12:10:00.000-06:002006-11-07T12:11:36.500-06:00From today's Washington Post:Then there's the Republican manual for its poll watchers in Maryland. The tone of the GOP message ("Your most important duty as a poll watcher is to challenge people who present themselves to vote but who are not authorized to vote") compares unfavorably with that of the Democrats to their poll watchers ("Your primary job is to ensure that every eligible voter who Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1162740926989309092006-11-05T09:26:00.000-06:002006-11-05T09:35:27.796-06:00I know that normal people are sick of hearing about the mid-term elections, sick of the advertisements, sick of the commentary. I'm already a little sad that it will all be ending soon.Unless, of course, it takes days or weeks to count all the ballots and dispute the counts which is entirely possible. Both parties have encouraged voters to vote early or vote absentee and most locations have Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1161964244358119732006-10-27T10:42:00.000-05:002006-10-27T10:50:44.800-05:00Chicagoist pointed me towards a favorable review of Chicago from an English newspaper Leeds Today. The writer hangs out at the Tall Ships Festival and is surprised that it's not overrun with tourists.The tall-ships festival's organiser explained to me that the event was not primarily designed to please tourists. All Chicago festivals (which happen more than daily, both downtown and in what theyReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1161779316574619032006-10-25T07:28:00.000-05:002006-10-25T07:28:38.170-05:00Five years ago I had some itchy skin on my back. I went to a dermatologist who had a prominent Yellow Pages ad and who would see me quickly.According to Dr. Cornbleet, I had eczema, some ointment would take care of it, and every now and again I've gone back to get a refill of my prescription. An old school office with samples of nautical knot tying on the walls. No electronic records but a Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1161746207129740602006-10-24T22:16:00.000-05:002006-10-24T23:19:32.726-05:00I was in class this afternoon in a building located at 624 South Wabash. The building at 630 South Wabash caught on fire.Not to sound like a dick about it but it wasn't very exciting. We were evacuated (calmly) and I saw the billowing, gray smoke. Traffic was orderly. I stopped by the library, checked out some books and got on the El. The El was too crowded for me to have a seat. That was myReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1161557912533014762006-10-22T17:52:00.000-05:002006-10-22T17:58:32.836-05:00Seattle now has an unbelievably dumb slogan as befits its prominent position in the equally dumbly be-sloganed Washington State. Thanks to Josh for bringing this to my attention.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1160844418532231222006-10-14T11:46:00.000-05:002006-10-14T11:46:58.966-05:00The entire mac/apple product line annoys the hell out of me. I have been using iTunes as a podcatcher (for my non-apple mp3 player) and I downloaded the latest version. Now featuring less functionality! So instead of files automatically going into a library I had to create a new folder, copy files into that folder (and there is no visual to indicate that this is happening, you just have to Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1160486231898811902006-10-10T08:17:00.000-05:002006-10-10T08:17:12.013-05:00I don't know that I believe in omens but I saw three dead birds on different sidewalks yesterday which was gross and creepy.On a happier omen-front, I was walking by the lake yesterday during lunch and saw an ordinary looking man riding a bike. The bike had a basket in front, the basket held a small dog and the dog was wearing a green afro wig.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1159621908580066822006-09-30T08:08:00.000-05:002006-09-30T08:20:49.906-05:00Doonesbury used to have a character named Andy (died of AIDS) and now has one named Drew. Unfortunately it's a woman.I'm just stalling when it comes to looking at the papers. Between the Woodward book and the Foley resignation I feel like it's Christmas morning.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1159048698548424902006-09-23T16:54:00.000-05:002006-09-23T16:58:19.886-05:00Slate has been discussing Zach Braff:It makes sense that Braff is so popular on MySpace, a site that exists so people can list what they like—friends, celebrities, music, movies. Braff is, essentially, an aggregator. His soundtracks are lists of his favorite songs. Garden State was a list of funny anecdotes and off-kilter objects rather than a cohesive story. He might not have anything original Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1159027062073915312006-09-23T10:55:00.000-05:002006-09-23T10:57:43.033-05:00The NYT is running a story today about cultural conservatives:In a Madonna concert and Veggie Tales, critics see a double standard.Yes, you have to get up pretty early to fool those cultural conservatives.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1158755337134725922006-09-20T07:26:00.000-05:002006-09-20T07:28:57.350-05:00False alarm. Although tanks are indeed in the streets of Bangkok, my brother is fine.According to his email, he was too busy fighting with his new annecdote to notice the coup.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1158685142234777372006-09-19T11:58:00.000-05:002006-09-19T11:59:02.570-05:00My brother is in Bangkok now so I'm a little freaked out about this story that the Associated Press is running:The Thai military launched a coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday night, circling his offices with tanks, seizing control of TV stations and declaring a provisional authority pledging loyalty to the king.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1158070565685138112006-09-12T09:14:00.000-05:002006-09-12T09:16:06.060-05:00Are you a narcissist? Why not take a quiz and find out?Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1158068984923928862006-09-12T08:48:00.000-05:002006-09-12T08:49:45.333-05:00Doing a lousy job of posting lately; sorry.I realize diction is tricky on this one but it did seem as though a lot of people on the news yesterday were remembering the "whores" of 9/11.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1156896804408591692006-08-29T19:07:00.000-05:002006-08-29T19:13:25.456-05:00I am totally fascinated by Bento TV. It's a woman who shows various Japanese lunchboxes and recipes to fill them. While she and the video production are amateurs, she's incredibly professional. She is apparently reading from cue cards or has totally memorized each little presentation.Now I totally want a wee multi-compartment lunchbox with a little cylinder to hold my damp towel (for finger Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1156545247410169282006-08-25T17:30:00.000-05:002006-08-25T17:34:07.500-05:00The New York Times has just hired its first perfume critic."Perfume is an art form just like other art forms from theatre to painting to music, so we're excited to be the first to cover perfume in this way," Diane McNulty, a Times spokesperson, said.Burr's column, Scent Strip, in the paper's style section, will assess old and new perfumes for men and women as well as the occasional scented candleReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1156542433960846962006-08-25T16:13:00.000-05:002006-08-25T16:47:14.216-05:00It's the end of August, 2006 so you know what that means. It means that we are about to hear a fucking ton of news stories about the 1 year anniversary of Katrina and the 5 year anniversary of 9/11. Mixed into both of these stories will no doubt be plenty of assertions that the authorities, in fact, did awesome jobs and it is simply a failure of communication that causes the public to think Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1156424195009625792006-08-24T07:47:00.000-05:002006-08-24T07:56:35.233-05:00Kelefa Sanneh, who always delivers funny, smart writing in the NYT, has this observation about contemporary pop music:If you’ve been watching many of the post-“Idol” musical reality shows, you might have noticed that most of these putative amateurs behave an awful lot like old pros. Don’t worry. There are still a few naïve musical dreamers, rushing in where angels fear to tread. You just have toReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1156260703824074682006-08-22T10:25:00.000-05:002006-08-22T10:31:44.476-05:00Having my picture taken is one of my least favorite things in the world. I came across a site that gave tips to photographers for coping with people like me, based on the logic that if we actually like pictures of ourselves, we are more likely to pay for them. Here's the most interesting tip--instead of "say cheese!" instruct the subject to squeeze his butt cheeks together. The result is a Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1156086673648727812006-08-20T10:09:00.000-05:002006-08-20T10:11:14.036-05:00Went to my 1st gay wedding last night. There was a reading from The House at Pooh Corner and a mariachi band so quite the multi-faceted experience.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1155300172313813892006-08-11T07:40:00.000-05:002006-08-11T07:42:52.606-05:00A vitally important blog update:I had earlier bemoaned the lack of YouTube videos that demonstrated the dance local kids call The Wild 40's.It turns out those elsewhere call it The Chicken Noodle Soup (or some such variation.)You may now return to getting wiggly with it.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1155264208809369902006-08-10T21:41:00.000-05:002006-08-10T21:43:29.123-05:00Best thing about latest round of terror hoo-ha?Sucks up all the oxygen that would otherwise be devoted to talking heads discussing Alaskan oil pipeline woes.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1155212689855535752006-08-10T07:20:00.000-05:002006-08-10T07:24:50.210-05:00This morning there is no "Morning Edition" on NPR but rather a press conference talking about the UK terrorists plot that was thwarted.First of all, I'm annoyed that this is on instead of the news. Secondly, I can't help but see the hand of Rove everywhere, including here. Partly because it's getting close to an election and terrorism is one of the few things that Republicans still get credit Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1154308044948439572006-07-30T19:56:00.000-05:002006-07-30T20:07:25.516-05:00It's a million fucking degrees here (here in Chicago not here in my apartment where there is air conditioning and iced hibiscus tea) and I am not at the Pitchfork Music Festival. It was a last minute thing, I got a set of comps for the festival on Friday morning. Yesterday, while running errands in the heat I realized that there was no way I was going to anything outdoors, at all, even though Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1152642673731174122006-07-11T13:24:00.000-05:002006-07-11T13:31:14.596-05:00I don't know that I would actually use this but I love the concept. It's a program called BillMonk and it tracks the things you have borrowed and the things others have borrowed from you. Borrowing is awkward because people forget, notes the site, urging me to click on a friend's name for details. When you drill-down for details about a particular friend, you see the money transactions betweenReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1152501416135799792006-07-09T21:57:00.000-05:002006-07-09T22:16:56.533-05:00I haven't done much in the way of predictions but here's one I'd like to make.Remember in the mid-late 1990's there was that resurgence of swing music? It was kind of affected and seemed to be largely an upper middle class, white kind of activity, kind of a charming anachronism.I just get the feeling that we are in for not a revival precisely but more like a re-birth. Not white kids aping the Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1152403144382150762006-07-08T18:52:00.000-05:002006-07-08T18:59:04.663-05:00You know how it is sometimes when you go for a while without saying anything, it gets even harder to say something when you do finally speak?Maybe it's just me.I'm eating a vietnamese sub after buying a new bike helmet. I'm riding bike with said helmet to the movies. I feel like every publication I read is obsessed with the long tail.That's all for now.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1151023936372004552006-06-22T19:50:00.000-05:002006-06-22T19:52:16.840-05:00My friend Katie read one of her essays on All Things Considered. Woo Hoo!Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1150839762017419522006-06-20T16:40:00.000-05:002006-06-20T16:45:37.730-05:00I saw this poster in a store window today:Changes: A Science-Fiction Tap Opera featuring the music of David Bowieaccording to the press release:The story of Changes is grounded in science fiction, with the starting point being Bowie’s seminal work Ground Control to Major Tom. From there the story moves to an alien planet ruled by an egotistical leader who forces the populace to work for his Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1150373427682543722006-06-15T07:07:00.000-05:002006-06-15T07:10:27.956-05:00Yesterday I saw a T-shirt on Michigan Avenue with a large fish, much like those favored by Christians who stick the logo on their bumpers. The shirt read, "Jesus Got R Done" in large, emphatic letters.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1149949427432240002006-06-10T09:05:00.000-05:002006-06-10T09:23:47.910-05:00Nicholas Minucci, 20 years old, is going to jail and he could be in there for the next 25 years. I'm glad of that.Last year Minucci, who is white, used a baseball bat to rob Glen Moore, who is black. Moore was walking with friends through Howard Beach, the neighborhood that saw horrifying white-on-black violence in the 1980s. Minucci stole the Air Jordans, Polo Shirt and Prada shoes that Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1149643323545552122006-06-06T20:07:00.000-05:002006-06-06T20:31:33.180-05:00Today I arrived at the Punk Planet offices to find Issue #74 back from the printers with my story on the cover.It's a beautiful day, sunshine with a lot of wind, and Anne brought a dollar-store kite to the office. All of us went on top of our building to take turns flying the plastic illustration of what was either a unicorn with rainbow wings or a rainbow-winged pegasus with a horn on its Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1149602355462670222006-06-06T08:47:00.000-05:002006-06-06T08:59:16.076-05:00I just finished reading the new Joe Klein book "Politics Lost" about how politicians get totally focus-grouped and turn into tiresome automatons who alienate the public.Which brings me to the Katherine Harris run for Senate in Florida. Katherine Harris, you may recall, was the partisan hack who wore too much makeup throughout all of the 2000 ballot recount and later compared herself to Rosa Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1149601354564272402006-06-06T08:30:00.000-05:002006-06-06T08:42:38.630-05:00I think that Diversity Beans are an especially stupid idea. Six colors of jelly beans, six flavors but the flavors and the colors don't correspond. So you might THINK that a red jelly bean might be cherry but it could be lime or licorice! See? Obviously the message is "don't judge by appearances." But is that, in fact, the real message of diversity? This seems like a deeply weird metaphor.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1149349435593073672006-06-03T10:41:00.000-05:002006-06-03T10:56:21.996-05:00A photograph to support the idea: Seattle is a silly place. For those who are unfamiliar with the city, The Cuff is a leather bar although, for this illustration, that just makes things more confusing rather than more clear.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1149036134098915502006-05-30T19:42:00.000-05:002006-05-30T19:42:14.756-05:00Waiting for my rice to finish cooking and listened to an interview with football player Ricky Williams. He can't play for the NFL anymore due to various drug issues (that's ganja, not steroids) so he's playing in the CFL for the Toronto Argonauts.People who actually give a shit about football already know that Williams is famous for being shy and soft-spoken. I came away from the interview Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1147955106166769552006-05-18T07:18:00.000-05:002006-05-18T07:25:06.530-05:00Cool story in today's NYT about the popularity of the name Nevaeh for little girls. Here's the lead:Chances are you don't have any friends named Nevaeh. Chances are today's toddlers will. In 1999, there were only eight newborn American girls named Nevaeh. Last year, it was the 70th-most-popular name for baby girls, ahead of Sara, Vanessa and Amanda."Nevaeh" is "Heaven" spelled backwards and Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1147926214097486382006-05-17T22:58:00.000-05:002006-05-17T23:27:11.370-05:00On a grocery run this evening was listening to the local Hip Hop & RnB station for the top 9 at 9. I had stopped listening for a while because "I'm In Love With a Stripper" continued to be #1 and I'm just not interested.Music-wise, nothing exciting tonight. But on the general pop-culture, decline-of-society tip, I was horrified to hear the new KFC ads. This is part of the new rebranding strategy,Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1147748241533304152006-05-15T21:57:00.000-05:002006-05-15T21:57:41.393-05:00A story on the radio today about L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The novel grew out of stories he told his own children and neighbor children when living in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood.Maybe you have to know Chicago to understand this. It's like hearing that The Cat in the Hat came out of Theodor Geisel telling rhymes to kids in South Central Los Angeles. Of course Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1147201230509397002006-05-09T13:50:00.000-05:002006-05-09T14:00:31.126-05:00I just finished transcribing my interview with Boots Riley of The Coup. One of my favorite bands just released what has become one of my favorite albums. Sometimes journalism is the best thing in the world.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1147059652011252682006-05-07T22:31:00.000-05:002006-05-07T22:40:52.370-05:00My landlord was outside today bashing up pieces of concrete. The goal was chunks of gravel and Joe tends to find the most labor-intensive route to any goal so that's how it manifested today.His young son, Odin, was outside watching. "Okay I'm going to swing the hammer, you need to stand back," Joe said."Could that hammer hurt my foot?" Odin asked."Yes, it could hurt you very badly.""Could it Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1146577634412058012006-05-02T08:38:00.000-05:002006-05-02T08:47:14.733-05:00Big-ass immigrant rights rally in Chicago yesterday and I feel a renewed sense of pride about being an American and being in Chicago. The conservative estimate is 400,000 marchers while organizers claim 700,000 but no matter...it was a lot of people with no arrests and no stress. When I was downtown I saw everyone literally draped in flags, little kids eating ice cream.Chicago is not at all Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1145449987542746372006-04-19T07:31:00.000-05:002006-04-19T07:33:07.553-05:00The power of naming. This is me. Or this is what I'm striving for, anyway.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1145401249385161802006-04-18T17:46:00.000-05:002006-04-18T18:00:54.113-05:00George Ryan, our most recently ex-governor, was convicted of all 3,217 charges against him and could possibly spend the rest of his life in prison. If you are really interested in the case itself, there's plenty of information online but I want to point you to the direction of the band that named itself after Ryan's statewide infrastructure initiative--Illinois First. If you named your band "Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1144708771075303352006-04-10T17:36:00.000-05:002006-04-10T17:39:31.086-05:00Insert your joke here. From MSNBC via Wonkette:Bush called for a criminal investigation to ‘get to the bottom’ of the CIA leak scandal. It turns out he may be the bottom. By Eleanor CliftI didn't get in on all the Bush-Assists-With-Leak tittering so now I'm back in the game.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1144617594108211362006-04-09T16:16:00.000-05:002006-04-09T16:19:54.123-05:00I'm getting a weird batch of spam lately that is all in the same, oddly poetic, english-as-a-second-language style. My favorite phrases:-Priority penis rouse!-Grandiose teen doing charming blowjob!Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1144201880109049862006-04-04T20:49:00.000-05:002006-04-04T20:51:20.110-05:00This quote was on the same page as the Chabon essay I've blogged below:“Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.” S.J. PerelmanIt seems lazy to take two things from one source but on this day of Tom DeLay's resignation, I couldn't resist.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1144201536408032162006-04-04T20:41:00.000-05:002006-04-04T20:45:36.420-05:00I came across this essay by Michael Chabon. He's writing about MFA programs but it seems that there are larger applications, no?We are accustomed to repeating the cliche, and to believing, that “our most precious resource is our children.” But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is of practicing adults, of Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1143595352949732492006-03-28T19:21:00.000-06:002006-03-28T19:22:32.963-06:00You scored as Either. You brain is neither specifically male nor female dominated in the way you perceive things and as bad as this sounds it can easily mean that you are capable of combining both limiting gender aspects to your advantage. Rather than being genderless you are possibly able think freely. This does not nec. mean that you are bisexual or androgynous or indecisive, though it might. (Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1143046113552668132006-03-22T10:09:00.000-06:002006-03-22T10:48:33.606-06:00It's spring break and I'm in Toronto (headline from NYT travel section, "A Revitalized Toronto Pins Its Hopes on the Hobbits" meaning the new musical based on Lord of the Rings which opens here tomorrow night.)Alex is at work now and he has thoughtfully collected a few local Filipino newspapers for me to peruse. I've been studying the Philippines for a class in Social/Cultural Geography.I'm not Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1142952368828305142006-03-21T08:43:00.000-06:002006-03-21T08:46:08.846-06:00This sounds like my experience with conservatives. From William Saletan in today's SLATE:A longitudinal study suggests whiny kids grow up to be conservative. They "turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity. The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1142806143757209702006-03-19T15:16:00.000-06:002006-03-19T16:09:03.836-06:00The NYT directed me to check out The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, maintained by UC Santa Barbara. Way, way back in the day records were not flat platters but rather rotating cylinders. The good folks in Santa Barbara have digitized a bunch of these and you can listen to them streaming online or download them.Lots of xylophones and banjos, lots of polkas and rags. And slurs, Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1142100204697449802006-03-11T11:50:00.000-06:002006-03-11T12:03:24.746-06:00I'm totally into WikiHow "The How-to Manual That Anyone Can Write Or Edit"Clearly I could spend all morning here if I'm not careful. How to Become Gothic, How to Stop Being Viewed as a Nerd ("Buy a track jacket. Any color. This is ideally worn over any regular t-shirt, making any outfit hip."), How to Figure the Cost of Running Buses to Your Protest, How to Paint an Ice Rink, How to Get a Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1142097795950738692006-03-11T11:22:00.000-06:002006-03-11T11:23:15.963-06:00Chicago public high schools require all sophomores to take (and pass) a driver's ed course.Including students who are blind.This has been going on for some time now. A mentor program that pairs blind adults with blind teenagers asked the kids what they would like to see changed--the point was to teach political activism. And the kids all mentioned that they were required to take Driver's Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1141510104021812832006-03-04T15:49:00.000-06:002006-03-04T16:19:37.833-06:00I'm really glad I lived in Seattle and there are days when I miss it terribly. There are also days when I remember that it got on my nerves.Seattle has lots of cool parks, one called Gas Works. It's an old coal gassification plant by the lakefront. After cleaning the soil, the city turned it into a park in the mid-70's. Some of the old equipment remains for folks to climb on and there is a huge Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1141488821474088422006-03-04T10:03:00.000-06:002006-03-04T10:37:02.486-06:00There's a story about Gene Simmons of KISS in today's LA Times. I'm easy when it comes to Kiss stories and I ignored the rest of the news to read the entire three page "Outrageous Entrepreneur" story. At the end there is a little bio with the usual facts one might expect (former schoolteacher, sold a bunch of records, appeared on "Miami Vice," etc.) but there was one fact that stood out for me:..Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1140977169295253702006-02-26T11:35:00.000-06:002006-02-26T12:06:09.343-06:00An interesting idea from Christopher Caldwell in today's New York Times Magazine. Manassas, Va., passed some laws about what "family" means. This time it's not about sexuality but rather real estate. To wit, lots of folks living in a "single family home":Whereas the old code defined "family" as pretty much any group of people related by blood or marriage, the new definition limited it to Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1140756363067471522006-02-23T22:28:00.000-06:002006-02-23T23:32:32.366-06:00I've been reading "The Natural," a book by Joe Klein about the Clinton presidency and he quotes Leon Panetta describing the southern courtliness of Clinton. "He never came out and told someone they were full of shit even though I know he was thinking it."That's not a bad thumbnail description of southern cultural behavior where famously "bless your heart," can be kindness but probably is a fig Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1140673041466049992006-02-22T23:18:00.000-06:002006-02-23T00:12:22.480-06:00How was my day? Why it was busy.You name the question, "Busy" is the answer. Yes, yes, I know we are all terribly busy doing terribly important things. but I think more often than not, "Busy" is simply the most acceptable knee-jerk response.Certainly there are more interesting, more original and more accurate ways to answer the question how are you? How about: I'm hungry for a waffle; I'm enviousReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1139771348825954332006-02-12T12:48:00.000-06:002006-02-12T13:09:13.313-06:00Doing homework which means Looking For Procastination Facilitation.If you are looking to kill a little time, take a look at the website for McDonald's India. This link shows the delicious looking McAloo Tikki.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1139354847976533962006-02-07T17:10:00.000-06:002006-02-07T17:27:28.030-06:00Today was the first day of my internship. I mailed advertising rate cards which is intern-y and I played with Lucy, the Punk Planet dog. The Bird Machine shares space with Punk Planet and their dog is named Seth. He didn't feel like playing.I came home with a big stack of back issues--they want me to write, so that's good.We went to Hot Doug's--The Sausage Superstore for lunch. I wasn't Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1139160223451154292006-02-05T11:20:00.000-06:002006-02-05T11:23:43.463-06:00From today's New York Times, Malcolm Gladwell on politics and national identity:"I hate to be this reductive, but an awful lot of my ideology, it's just Canadian. Canadians like small, modest things, right? We don't believe in boasting. We think the world is basically a good place. We're pretty optimistic. We think we ought to take care of each other. And it so happens that to be a Canadian in Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1138755889334265782006-01-31T18:34:00.000-06:002006-01-31T19:05:27.760-06:00Feels like a two-fer of sadness today what with the death of Coretta Scott King and the speedy swearing-in of Judge Alito. It's not enough to hustle him into robes so that he can be confirmed in the afternoon, attend the State of the Union in the evening but Trent Lott has to shoot his mouth off about how the only reason anyone could oppose Alito is partisanship.John Powers talks about this Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1137429740115478932006-01-16T10:19:00.000-06:002006-01-16T10:42:20.166-06:00Chicago is getting a smoking ban this week for "public places." What's a public place? Well, it's not a restaurant or a tavern; they have until July 1, 2008. Furthermore, establishments that can demonstrate that they have a kickass air filtration system can continue to allow smoking. I'm assuming that "demonstrate" is code for "pay off the inspector" but whatever.Also this week, the Marshall Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1137132309398216942006-01-12T23:19:00.000-06:002006-01-13T00:05:09.456-06:00I bought a sandwich for lunch today and I paid using a gift card for that chain of restaurants. I think the woman at the cash register was high. I say that partly because I used to operate the cash register while high at a restaurant where I once worked. And I say that partly because she stapled my receipt to the gift card, right through the magnetic stripe. When I asked, "Just out of Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1136936780312799092006-01-10T17:44:00.000-06:002006-01-10T17:56:18.080-06:00I don't drink anymore so the game I've come up with for the Judge Alito confirmations is this:Everytime someone says "Stare Decisis" you have to strip-search a minor.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1135214920033300762005-12-21T19:27:00.000-06:002005-12-21T19:28:40.043-06:00An email from amazon.com to me:...you might like to know that Dispossessed: Life in Our World's Urban Slums will be released in paperback soon.Woo hoo!Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1134139760303594462005-12-09T08:42:00.000-06:002005-12-09T08:49:20.316-06:00Some random things from the news:Sean Paul talks with Jim DeRogatis of the Sun-Times about his progressive attitudes towards women:Just the other day, I was in Chicago seeing a lady walking to work, and she had a baby on her arm and work stuff in the other hand. You do not see many men doing that. So if I tell a woman, 'Shake that thing / I find you sexy to me,' I hope that's inspiring her to Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.com