Saltie, street fairs, steel, strawberries, asparagus, green garlic. Planning for pickles and preserving. Handmade bicycles, lilacs. Pie and peonies. And an invitation to escape to the Catskills. New superadobe stories and these sandy punks swinging by their knees from geodesic domes selling screenprints and ...
Ms Renee Ra has a spot she'd like you to make yours. July and August, $1100 a month for a spacious one bedroom south of Prospect Park. Lovely views, elevator, AC (though you'll have to pay the electric bill). Interested? Let me know and I'll put you in touch. ...
Eventually: my promised report back on the Pirate Bay talk, which was great, and after which Mister Mux Tape explained that commercial software is, by its very nature, better than free and open source software and then asked me if I worked for the FSF when I called him on that bizarre and baseless assertion. I'm not even talking about Apache here. Or I am, but at the present moment, Open Office is better documented than the MS Office suite. And calc's financial functions are just plain better. I didn't point out that I don't think that the Free Software Foundation really has the staff resources to travel the Eastern seaboard heckling speakers at community arts talks. I also didn't point out that there are people in this world (no really, there are!) who hold opinions they aren't paid to hold and expertise on subjects they are not professional lobbyists on behalf of. Actually, I could kind of wrap that one up and repeat what we already know which is that the Bureau of Piracy is great, you should take a look at the links on the original post and (this is the part I hope you already know) that the real problem with the prosecution of the buccaneers is about free speech. Not about my right to swap music willy-nilly, copyright be damned (another thing I didn't say to Mux Man: there is, I think, a big difference between software and music) but about whether a file sharing platform should be held accountable for the files shared over it. Particularly in a world where some musicians do want to make large files (their own) available free of charge and politically significant data sets can be a difficult thing to host on your own little server. Fundamentally, neither the laws nor the recording industry have kept up with the modern world and it is worth asking why that is really the fault of the Pirate Bureau. That was rough. I might come back and try to make it sound a little coherent.
Got a ticket this morning, and had to stand on a traffic island with Brooklyn Bridge-bound cars whizzing by while I waited for Officer Illegible to write me up. Apparently, you aren't actually allowed to ride a bike from the bike lane on the street to the bike lane on the bridge. Because you have to enter the crosswalk to do so. You're supposed to wait until all the cars coming up Tillary get a green turn signal, and then cross their path to get to the bridge.
Last night, we went with a bunch of Merry's apprentices to see Danny Hoch's new show in a high school auditorium in Bushwick. An auditorium decorated with murals that tell the story of the mankind on earth, in which very fair skinned naked people are blessed by a winged angel ("The Dawn of Civilization") and then bestowed the flame ("The Gift of Fire"). And with fire the story ends. Before I start, just so you know, I'm struggling with the fact that last year's RAT was really inspiring and rejuvenating for me but without something to offer I can't see myself going again. So I saw a play finally. Some live theater. Saw it with a couple of teenagers (both named Hector) whose entire previous experience with live theater consisted of a trip to Lincoln Center to see the Nutcracker (shorter Hector) and "we saw this play once at school" (larger Hector).
My cousin is coming to town and she wants to go to a play. Fair enough: I live in New York City. I ought to be able to hook that up. Only, I don't go to plays and the people I know who do fall into difficult categories. Either they ...
1) We do not own it yet. We believe. We have absolute faith. But we do not own. Tomorrow a new appraisal, hopefully a closing date settled. Everything seems to hang on these threads, teeny tiny little threads. This is a damn nerve wracking time for the banking industry to ...
Here is what happened: I worked too late for no good reason. I looked over at the clock as I was turning on the radio and thought to my self, "crap. It is 8:03. I have an entire hour before Fair Game is over. It really is only on when ...
have a meeting to go to (there better be cookies!), I'd be at this on Thursday ... Floating Points 2008 Issue Project Room This Festival, in its third year, (formerly points in a circle) explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room's Innovative house speaker system, designed by Stephan Moore. In the hands of ...
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