BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. In imperial Vietnam, when a scholar could not in conscience continue his life at court he would petition the emperor for permission to return to his home village, where he would raise medicinal herbs & teach the local boys their basic Han characters & the rudiments of Confucian thought. It’s […]
The clinic I’ve been going to this last month is a very efficient organization. Labs and X-Rays are handled in the basement, people get checked in at the main door, and each suite of doctor’s has a waiting room with a person seated at a desk to handle all the patient insurance accounts. The woman […]
I developed seven rolls of film, including a few rolls that had been banging around my camera bag. You know, of course, that you’ll be inundated with images as a result over the next day or two. Or three. Except for one roll. I’m not sure how I did it, but the roll was double-exposed. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are many things I’d like to talk about today. There is Yule Heibel’s post on Foucault and self-exposure, and Mike Golby’s and alembic responses. Yule wrote: Understand this: whatever is translated into discourse is instrumentalised as social control. It is not the case that chatter about your sexuality or your neuroses or your deepest darkest […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Serious questions about the integrity of Quizilla have been raised in my comments in regards to the most recent quiz, How grammatically sound are you? Jonathon Delacour put forth: Though I suspect the reason Quizilla didn’t post the correct answers is to ensure that no-one ranks below Grammar Master. Can anyone disprove […]