Food, travel, learnin' - NOLA style
From Wednesday to Sunday I was in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the PCA/ACA conference. While "work" was the primary objective, food trumps just about anything for me especially when traveling.
From Wednesday to Sunday I was in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the PCA/ACA conference. While "work" was the primary objective, food trumps just about anything for me especially when traveling.
Simon and Garfunkel Concert in the Park was the first CD I ever owned.
(I had to use the opening link where the back up band get their props!)
Satire is not a form/technique well integrated into American culture. Sure there is SNL and The Simpsons, The Daily Show and the charming Jane Bond, Nancy Clue, and the Hardly Boys novels of Mabel Maney and of course The Onion. Just the same, these are cultural artefacts more to the fringe than the center and often receiving harsh criticism when their satirical essence is misunderstood...or missed all together.
Oh no! Liberty's Kids no longer "lives" on PBS.org and I was really looking forward to making my own newspaper. There is however a long list of other options in a drop down box. Alas, but how to pick which one? Mom!! Help!
Before finishing the abstract for “When Sex, Drugs, and Violence Enter the Classroom,” I was thinking, a little deviously, of the times I’ve sassed automated phone services. Dare I say I have even cussed at them a little. Once I discovered that the usually one just has to fake the program out to get to talk to a real person, well that’s when the deliberate mumbling began. Such behavior I don’t admit proudly…but I did it, and now I understand a little better “what was really going on” - though I insist that to some end I was just mad that it didn’t understand me and I wanted an answer to, “where is my package, UPS?!”
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This week's topic, consumerism and "the Mall," has pushed my thinking in quite a number of different directions all of which merit thoughtful and in depth consideration. Thanks to generative thinking and how I love to link things to other things and to bigger and bigger concerns, there is just no way to tackle them all here and now. Of course, I can't let seem to let them go so l am starting with a bit of an overview of each and see where I end up...
“It’s a pin-up game – you can’t argue with tat. And as a pin-up game, it’s an outstanding success. I haven’t played it much yet, and I don’t think it’s very interesting to women, but it’s an honest game and I don’t feel offended by it. It’s silly, it’s like a beach movie, a “men’s magazine.? The domain is explicitly for men, and that’s okay. Nothing’s wrong with it, even if there’s nothing compelling to a female audience, either.? (game girl advice 2003/04/16)
Of what am I a fan?
The Simpsons
Interval workouts
Everything bagels
The Bayport Cookery
Anna Karenina
Coming soon....all future posts will appear by the Sunday night deadline. Best on MLK Day! Let justice flow.
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