BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I am about halfway in my move to WordPress. Have run into some interesting challenges along the way, but also have discovered a couple of nifty things that help compensate for the more interesting of the interesting challenges. There’s one feature, in particular, for those of us who like to write long […]
Recovered 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 […]