tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360013982011-04-21T18:16:17.623-07:00Adventures in navel-gazing.Jackie Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454144950634685395noreply@blogger.comBlogger861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001398.post-58314169466554857992008-11-19T22:03:00.000-08:002008-11-19T22:37:58.728-08:00

That's right, the "God Hates Fags" people are set to protest at RCC tomorrow night from 7-8 p.m. The occasion? The first night of RCC's production of The Laramie Project. From their own website, and yes, I sacrificed an unblemished goat and washed my hands after going there....11/20/20087:00 PM - 8:00 PMRiverside, CALandis Performing Arts Center - Laramie Project alert! 4800 Magnolia Ave Matthew

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(Note: Quotations are from the Stone edition of the Tanach)These shall you abominate from among the birds, they not be eaten -- they are an abomination: the nesher, the peres, the ozniah; the daah and the ayah according to its kind; every orev according to its kind; the bas hayaanah, the tachmos, the shachaf, and the netz, according to its kind; the kos, the shalach, and the yanshuf; the

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Check out The Brick Testament, which is a lot of fun--and really, how often can you say that about Leviticus?Leviticus chapters 5 through ten get further into the niceties of atonement and sacrifice: when you need to find an unblemished goat, calf, or ram and bring them to the priest; when and how the sons of Aaron make cereal (actually, frybread) offerings; and which priests get the white meat

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Go here for lyrics.

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Since my LGBT brothers and sisters keep getting Leviticus 18 thrown at us (y'know, the part where you're not supposed to "lie with a man as with a woman" because it's "an abomination"), I thought I'd do a little exploration of Leviticus to see what else we might want to include in our next California initiative drives. So far, nothing springs to mind; Leviticus 1 is all about how to properly

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For now, the "hurray for Obama" stuff rings hollow. As Harvey Fierstein wrote, Tuesday's results were "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us."It was ironic, in all of our joking about "moving to Canada" should the election go badly, that the LAW and I actually ended up here on Nov. 5. I'm so incredibly angry and sad right now, it is a type of mourning. In that sense, it's probably

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Wordle.net, that is.

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Today's project was the chicken coop, which needed a good mucking-out. I carted out about a dozen wheelbarrows-full of chicken poop and old sawdust, two hornet's nests, several piles of old eggs, and a dead chicken that I found about 6 inches underneath the surface. After refilling the coop with clean sawdust, my work was done.

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Sigh.

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At wal-mart again.

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Hangin out with the missing kids posters in walmart (in my new panama jack hat).

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I love to travel, especially because I get to challenge gender expectations around the world. Whether it's the "m'sieur" in Paris or the "sir/ma'am/whatever" in Mississippi (okay, that last one happened to a friend of mine, not to me...but it's a good one), language fails me in the honorific. Soooo..... this year, the first "sir" of the holiday season:Dec 16, 11:30 a.m. Mountain Time: At the "Que

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Seriously, it's Bingo night here in Toledo, Oregon. I've already won a plate of cookies baked by the high school home ec teacher.

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The view for much of the time here in Albuquerque.

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Maybe I need a new hat?

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Okay, if death comes in threes, a lot of still-living opera icons need to be extra-careful these days. Sigh.

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Well, it's true I'm a great fan of the corvid family--crows, jays, magpies. By the way, has anybody not read Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy? Because seriously, it's one of the best things out there.Another great thing having to do with Corvidae: Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow," from her 1976 album Hejira.... In search of love and musicMy whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving,

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I cut my own hair this last week. The LAW, in her way, approved: "It doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought it might." Seriously, though, I thought how hard can it be? Use a #8 on top and a #4 on the sides; that was my compensation for my lack of expertise (when I have someone else cut it, it's a #7 and a #2). Besides, good gel can fix a variety of ills.I've been reading pulp/thriller/detective

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My brother John and I compete to see who can get the most wretched songs stuck in the other person's head. Not by singing--mais non! We can just type lyrics at each other over MSN Messenger. We are cursed, it seems, with lyric recall and a propensity for phonological loops. The winners today:Morning Train, Sheena Easton My baby takes the morning train / He works from nine till five and then / He

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Brin de paille. A cheese that, to translate from the back of its little package, "surprises everyone with its melting heart and the finesse of its aroma." It comes on a round of wood, atop a little bundle (brin) of straw (paille). Air it out, smear its melting little heart on some crusty coarse bread, and you will have a new love in France. It's like butter's sexy older sister.Below, from YouTube

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So we've been back in Paris for about a week--long enough to imbibe in more cider and crèpes at the Crèperie des Pecheurs, to go to an exhibit of Pierre et Gilles' work at the Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries, to wander around the inside of Notre Dame in the dark (they were showing a movie), to watch a black swan puff up threateningly at a groundskeeper in the Jardin des Plantes, and to take all

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vendredi 13 juilletCarcasonne was hot, windy, dusty, fabulous. We caught a 9 a.m. train from Gare St. Roch in Montpellier, and within just over an hour, we were ensconced in the Place Carnot, at a café, fortifying ourselves with lots of coffee and panini (apparently, the street/semi-junk food of choice in France) in order to make the walk up to the old city. Carcassonne is proud of its ancient

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I've been tagged by Gregory. The rules:Players offer eight random habits/facts about themselves.If you're tagged, you need to write your own blog about your eight things and post these rules.At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to tag and list their names.Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.My Random Stuff:I still have

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Minou, a prince of a cat, who occupied Sharon's apartment and who charmed me instantly.Montpellier, de 9 juillet à 12 juillet:The dorm room was even less than one expected, in terms of size at least. Our room was designed for two people--two people who really, really like each other, since the bed was barely wider than a single and had just one long pillow. The LAW and I managed, but those

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Okay, the chronology is messed up; after the day at Café Jade, you'll remember, there were two days at the Louvre, then another day traipsing about, and then on the 8th of July, we took the train to Montpellierdimanche 8 juillet: MontpellierTake the 4 from Odéon to Chatelet, switch to the 14 to Gare de Lyon, look for voie 'A,' voiture 16...On the train, the LAW reads something scholarly and I

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So here I am, back in Paris after a week away and reconnected to the internet world thanks to my friend Marie-Paule's wireless connection; let me back up to an earlier time.....Café Jade, 4 juillet 2007, 13:55Une crème et une farandole des fromages.Je suis seule. The LAW went to meet Sharon at noon and I hung out in one of the Gibert bookstores for an hour or so. Two Tintins to complete my set (I

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Six hours of looking at the sublime in the Richelieu wing. More on that later; I've left my thumb drive with pictures back at the hotel, and am soon off for a second day at the Louvre. Last night: we schlepped a huge suitcase up to the 13th arrondisement to store it in Marie-Paule's apartment. After aperitifs in the apartment, we went to a small corner restaurant called L'Olivier de Saint-Marcel.

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I just found out that Sills is dead. If you've never heard her in Roberto Devereux ... well, you should. More from Paris later; I'm off to mope in the Louvre.

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On Continental #10 to CDG. We left Ontario two hours late--got to Houston 10 minutes before our flight was supposed to take off. We ran for a minute, then the LAW yelled down one of those kamikaze carts. Aaron, our lovely driver, got us from C30 to E18 just in time...we were not _quite_ the last to board. Au revoir!

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All packed...and ready for a month in France. I'm hoping to finish a draft of my graphic novel while there. We'll see...after all, I'm going to be pretty busy, what with eating all that fromage et les croissants...

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Audio files of books in the public domain! LibriVox.And now I'm off to get a suitcase because tomorrow, I am off to France.

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Hanging out at the vet's while Morrigan gets her Rimadyl refill. In the next exam room, Tucker the Beagle apparently has a foxtail up his nose (and a thermometer up his bum).

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You should at least have the t-shirt!NutcrackerbyshehunGet this custom shirt at Zazzle

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The neon light-and-sound show at the airport was one of the more technologically sophisticated elements of this year's Computers & Writing conference. Don't get me wrong--some computers worked, the wireless was hooked up, and the projection system in our presentation finally was up and running some 10 minutes in. Overall, I had a good time in Detroit: dinner with Donna that redeye-flight-fatigued

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Here, a visual representation of a textual representation of a fantasy representation: Shehun, my old DaMOO character. I miss DaMOO. I'm on SecondLife (in the cheap seats), but it's not the same (duh). This .gif was part of the hypnotic Captain-and-Tennille performance that we gave: Jonathan speaking, me accompanying with image, repeated image, text, repeated text. Iteration.

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Okay, I PROMISE I'll write about Detroit, even though most of you have probably heard my schtick on the sad, sad Motor City. But first: Part of what Jonathan had to say:But what I have been missing (and longing for, not just not finding) in our recent pedagogical discussion about new media and the communications technologies is a strong sense of how we are having, with our students, discussions

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C&W pt 1: After my dog got me up @ 5 a.m. yesterday, I worked until 8 p.m., caught a redeye @ 11:45, and hit Detroit @ 9:30 Eastern. Yawn.

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Really, I just want to be Laurie Anderson. Or have coffee with her.

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...proctoring a comprehensive exam.

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(and you refuse to learn now, on the job):committee work will suck your life out through your eyeballs you can't "liberate" anyone--not your students, not yourself, not the bag of SunChips stuck in the machinepeople will always complain about bad writing (student OR high theory) because that's easier to do than to actually read somethingyou'll never get enough sleep"hammerheads" and "redeyes" are

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Yes, 'tis the season--this week marks the anniversary of my coming-out (23 years ago). I'm celebrating with wall-to-wall meetings at work: prep for the University Curriculum Committee (UCC); the UCC itself; Grad Council; thesis students; department Graduate Committee; a dozen other I'm forgetting; etc. Maybe I'll persuade the LAW that this momentous season deserves an extra-friendly date.Last

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So don't you think that, with all the advanced tech, we could at least have COFFEE during the 12-hr fast before routine bloodwork (okay, and the pee-in-a-cup test)? I mean, can't the machines account for the caffeine that I need just to get the blood moving?

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Well, it's week one of spring quarter, and the faculty union (the CFA) and the CSU administration have until this Friday to hammer something out. Last month, we had an 80% turnout of union members statewide, and 94% of us voted to authorize a strike. Keep it in the news! Say something on your own blog! It's important to keep the heat on our corporatized administration.

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If only this were required reading.

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... oh yeah, and yesterday, the main sewer line backed up into my tub.The only cool part of this event (really, it was cool) is that the plumbers had this camera they sent down into the pipes so they could see the roots. Really, it was like watching a colonoscopy on House. Sort of.

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(an illustration of my latest emails)Dear Mayor Riddell:I'm attaching the following complaint (which I've sent to the Better Business Bureau, the Yucaipa Chamber of Commerce, and the police department) to provide background information to this issue. What I am writing you for, specifically, is to complain about a frivolous 9-1-1 call.Basically, what happened is that in the course of a dispute

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A rare sighting of this lovely creature in its native habitat.

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The view in Atlanta. On my way home from CCCC, I'm noticing how tired I am. Good conference--although, as usual, the best stuff happens somewhere other than official sessions. Travel tragedy: I left my favorite hat somewhere (prolly O'Lunney's Pub) and lost my favorite leather gloves.

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Free internet access--like socialized health care, a fabulous thing if you don't mind waiting in line. Note to self--writing teachers are computer hogs.

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Breakfast in New York. I'm testing out mobile blogging--yep, dear reader, this post is from my cellphone.

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Hey, it's finals week. I must rely on others' creativity.

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My Linguistic Profile:60% General American English15% Upper Midwestern10% Midwestern5% Dixie5% YankeeWhat Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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New York was great. Good food, lots of people wearing black, and snow. I did manage to finish my paper (it had to do with immersive technology, representation, and post-cyborg ironies...trust me), and so earned my scholarly keep. The LAW and I strolled around her old stomping grounds (NYU) and almost crashed an Official Event, but I nixed it once I saw the Ukrainian folk dancers in native costume

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That's right, New York/New York. I'm presenting a paper that I'm still in the process of writing.So I took a job compatability test and found out that I'd be great in a job involving things rather than people. But what if I just think of people as things? Does that count?Seriously, though, raspberry farming and writing comic books up in the wild northwest looks pretty good. I'm not sure that I

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Snow in Redlands, California? Mais oui! Things are funky with the weather, so much so that the U.S. government might even start snapping their fingers and believing in Global Warming (see "Better late than never"). One wonders, really, if "late" or "never" really counts, but of course, one is cynical. In related news, the Brit scientists have reset the Doomsday Clock to show that we have moved

Jackie Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454144950634685395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001398.post-7124107431084277062007-01-11T12:43:00.000-08:002007-01-11T12:45:18.480-08:00

My friend Jonathan and me--balls, balls, balls!

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So winter quarter is less than 48 hours old. Yesterday, they closed campus because of high winds (so I had some extra time to finish reading schedules and syllabi); today, cleanup ensues--there are several downed trees and lots of trash blown about.Today's adventure, on a personal note, was of the locking-myself-out-of-the-house genre. "No problem," I thought. "There are spares." Then I

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My Pirate Name Is...Dirty Jack of the BalticWhat's Your Pirate Name?

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I finished the essay ("Lesbian Spectacle and the Disruption of Desire") at 7 p.m. Pacific Time and emailed it away. The LAW has read it and pronounced it intelligible, and she approved my decision not to end the piece with "And we all know Paradise is chock-full of lesbians." Too bad. It was good to finish it--I think I've proven to myself that the brain still works in interesting ways, although

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I'm trying to re-focus myself. Really, what I want to do is reach a level above "Dan Quayle" in my Civilization IV game, but I suspect that obsessive gaming will not help me finish the article that's due this week. An excerpt:Again: any techne of lesbian sexuality will do well to embrace the Spectacular as a force that makes fleshly bodies temporarily readable through its sustained jumbling of

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Two thoughts before I nap: (1) people really need to cover their damned noses when they sneeze in airplanes, at least to give the illusion that we're not all breathing each other's recyclables; (2) I wonder if the FDA approving cloned meat for human consumption will convince more people to go vegetarian...

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I'm using the computers at Harvard's Houghton Library to make this post. We're camped out in the rare books collection, looking at 17th-century editions of Du Bosc and Scudery. No pens! No folders! No cameras! No food! Be quiet! We handle the old things lovingly, which, really, isn't a bad philosophy for books, life, sex, etc.....Highlights from yesterday: a yellow curry with mango at Thai Basil

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...because I tell ya, the last two times I've been on an extended trip, I've ended up buying extra undies and socks. Look out, Boston lingerie stores!Actually, it's more like "look out, Boston discount department stores." Lingerie stores make me feel claustrophobic and nauseated. The last time I had to endure Victoria's Secret while the LAW was using a gift certificate, I felt like my flesh was

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I don't have much to say beyond that; Eliot and I are having an antiqued sepia yuletide moment here in front of the Mac. The LAW and I leave for Boston on Tuesday and are in the midst of packing books that we intend to read but know that we won't. Top of my intended-but-probably-won't-be-read list: The Omnivore's Dilemma.

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....before the internet goes out. Yes, it rained in southern California, which means that the pathetic little phone line that never should've been outside will give up the ghost and we'll be without phone service (and DSL). Our friend and contractor, the fabulous bundle of slightly crazy man-energy (let's call him "Fabio") is fixing it all this morning. Love to Fabio and his magic spool of phone

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Well, maybe disgusting but true. Here I am, happily past fall quarter: grades turned in, letters of recommendation written. I'm ready to get my brain working in responsible scholarly-essay-generating ways. I think to myself, "hmmm, since the coffee place is closed on campus, maybe I'll just make a pot here in my office." What a good idea! So good an idea, so rare, so fine that the last time I had

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...like the Gay Men's Chorus from L.A.! Okay, yeah, the picture is crappy. I was trying to be polite with the cellphone (as if that's possible). Best song: "Boogie Woogie Hanukkah." Worst...nothing by the GMC(LA) but the opening act (Vox Femina) had some real snoozers. To be fair, Vox Femina is less a show choir than GMC--and the Romanian tunes were cool...but still--I'll say no more except to

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Wednesday: Went to work. Mom made pies and got everything ready for Thanksgiving.Thursday: Up at 7. Accidentally dumped all the torn-up bread for dressing into the laundry basket. Followed 5-second rule.Friday: To San Diego to tour the U.S.S. Midway. Learned useful terms for future online 'zines: "Riding the Meatball" and "Pickle Switch," both of which have to do with landing a plane on a ship.

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My parents are in town, having driven from Montana to spend some time in sunny southern CA with their (less sunny, but just as dry) daughter. Yesterday we stocked up for T'giving dinner, and today, while the LAW and I are at work, Mom wanted to stay home and get things ready. I tell ya--having people travel for two days in order to make you a big dinner is something to be really thankful for.

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1500 CSU faculty (yes, I was one of them) and their supporters from campuses statewide protested outside the CSU Board of Trustees meeting last week to pressure the administration into re-entering contract negotiation. Here's one of several news stories about the protest, and here's the California Faculty Association website. We've had an impasse declared and are going into mediation. Job actions

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My poem "Dubbel zoet" was accepted for publication in The Adirondack Review. Whee! Here it is.I found the shooting location for my early-stage-of-development Wine film. Stay tuned for the debut of my Nika-liscious star.Oh, yeah, and the LAW is home and I haven't broken any dental work for days!

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So the Lovely AW(tm) is away at a conference, and I'm doing the usual shehun-as-bachelor things: staying up late playing video games, sleeping with the TV on (nothing like infomercials at 3 in the morning to give you interesting dreams), not taking my vitamins, and eating popcorn for dinner (and leftover popcorn for breakfast). Now really, before the LAW entered my life and made sense of the

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Okay, I finally saw Crash last night. I'd had the DVD from Netflix for three weeks and thought, well, if I ever want to get the next diskful of Smallville episodes, I'd better watch this thing. One of the reasons I'd wanted to see it was, of course, I'd wondered if the movie had really deserved the "Best Picture" Oscar that it got--by surprise--over Brokeback Mountain. Now my questions have been

Jackie Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454144950634685395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001398.post-1162408653338713222006-11-01T11:16:00.000-08:002006-11-01T13:18:49.450-08:00

Florence, Montana--Home of the Fighting Falcons!

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I used to wonder how cheese and beer were ever invented (and yogurt!). I mean, moldy stinky food--I love it as much as the next gal, but who ever got the idea to pick up some nasty bit of goo and eat it? Anyway, I used to wonder that, but I'm now pretty sure it was because of the Stone Age forebears of people who spend their time doing these Halloween Tampon Project sorts of things. Oh yes, and

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Tomorrow's the big day--a thousand children will descend on my neighborhood (I'm not exaggerating--the guy down on the corner counted one year) and make off with all the candy, like African driver ants on a pig carcass. Last year, we gave out 15 pounds of candy (one piece at a time) to the eager young darlings. We sit out on the steps with buckets of candy in hand to keep the hordes from

Jackie Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454144950634685395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001398.post-1161887421296426102006-10-26T11:28:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:00:29.228-07:00

I'm too effin' grumpy to post.

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Okay, I know it's been a while since I've posted--DAYS, even--but I offer as my excuse: (1) my DSL line was out and I'm too lazy to go online with dial-up any more, and (2) we had a party this weekend. So, basically, my little foray into dissolute libertinism kept me away. Mais mes chers, je suis là maintenant, et maintenant, et toujours.Where did Shehun come from? When I was first teaching, way

Jackie Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454144950634685395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001398.post-1161304441582194752006-10-19T17:32:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:00:29.229-07:00

Collect 'em all!If you're a fan of the time-wasting personality test (and really, who isn't?), check out PersonalDNA. Huh? Oh yeah, here are my results.

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At work: The campus flooded this week, and we've been kicked out of our computer classrooms while the good folk of Balfor de-mildew and re-drywall things.At home: My landline at home is out, which is good, because it made me go into the basement to look at the phone lines, where a bunch of water dripped onto my head. A minute later, I felt pretty butch holding onto a flashlight (of use) and a

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So last week, in honor of National Coming Out Day, I played with Photoshop and came up with this. It was pretty funny. A number of people were shocked and even awed by it--not that I was gay (everyone knows that) but that I made the cover of Time. Somehow it seemed more plausible that I'd made the cover than that I'd pasted my head on Ellen Degeneres's body. (Eh? No, Skippy, my digital head on

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So last night I saw The Queen, not because I have any particular interest in QEII or Princess Diana, but because I'd pretty much watch Helen Mirren in anything. If Helen Mirren appeared on crap TV like America's Funniest Home Videos, I'd watch it, even if Bob Saget were hosting and my mute button were broken. Certain folk are Sagetproof. Who else besides Mirren? Mikhail Baryshnikov. Gerry Adams.

Jackie Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454144950634685395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001398.post-1160847205852647832006-10-14T10:30:00.000-07:002007-08-28T13:56:14.620-07:00

In addition to the lovely AW and my dog Morrigan, I live with three cats. This is me and my cat Eliot, also known as "Smee" and "assmahbigboyyyy" (say that last one slow and you'll get the knack of it). He's a 20-pound tabby trout. My cats don't like having their pictures taken with the webcam--it's been like wrestle-mania here this morning. How do cats see? With their eyes, duh. But can they

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I made my students start blogs and promised I'd start one up, too. Now I have (2 weeks late), and I can see why they've been alternately amused and weirded-out by it.I was finding links for them to explore and went to some archive of weird stuff, which led to something about Strawberry PopTart Blowtorches (really), which made me think about that old "microwave the Peeps" website, etc., etc. Sugar

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