http://www.pathawi.net/b-log Pensaments of an Anthropological Patzer Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:50:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once upon a time, this blog became a tiny magnet for attention from folks whose attention I did not want to draw. I closed it down & hid the archives. I wager that time's passed. http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=132 I got my final W2, last week, and completed my FAFSA on-line Wednesday, one day before the deadline. Last year was a broke year, for me: I held a full-time job for three weeks, and spent the other forty-nine scrapping. I enjoyed that freedom, and I miss it, now that I'm ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=126 Dan Waber (known in some circles as [brick]) is one of the more interesting poets I know of. His love of language shows in his constant experimentation — his most striking public experiment, at the moment, is his minimalist concrete poetry blog. Dan's love of words and their weird qualities ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=125 Peggy Appiah, British-Ghanaian folklorist and philanthropist, has passed away. She had been a tireless collector of Asante folktales (Anansesɛm) and published the largest collection of Akan proverbs (mmɛbusɛm) to date. Her father, Sir Stafford Cripps, was the British Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1947-1950. Her husband, Joe Appiah, was deeply ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=124 Anyone out there know — or know someone who knows — how to read '滇' in Cantonese? I know that in Mandarin it's diān. Apple's Chinese Text Converter indicates that 婊 should be the traditional version, but I've no way, at the moment, of verifying that, and on-line dictionaries don't ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=123 I love TS Eliot. 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is one of my favourite English-language poems… perhaps my very favourite. (Those who think they know me won't be surprised. Those who do might be.) But I don't fully get The Waste Land. I've read the poem a couple dozen ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=122 I remember the way. When I get there, I'll have to speak like I'm drunk. You have to use the right words in the right order. I'm the drunk man, showing up to fuck her. I have to remember to be obnoxious. There's a script to be followed… …Michelle's at home ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=121 CounterPulse, a great performance space South of Market run in large part by San Francisco activist and historian Chris Carlsson (blog here), started its Spring Talk series two weeks ago with a lecture on the San Francisco general strike of 1934 and the Oakland general strike of 1946. Last Wednesday, ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=120 January has felt like a very GOP month, thus far: I've been reading The Wealth of Nations and the KJV. I feel a little dirty Of course, while neither Moses nor Adam Smith was politically radical by today's standards, it's important to remain aware of the fact that these texts ... http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=119 To: "Bob Offer-Westort" From: ----- Reply-To: ----- Subject: Re: Hey. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-vsuite-type: e the problem with having a blog is that your friends that write you and don't get a response KNOW that you are not hospitalized, and therefore can write them back... one love http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=118