Tag: Culture
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And we’re back
It’s going to take another night of sleep before I can make much sense, but we got back from Italy late Saturday night. I’m working on uploading the rough edit of pictures right now. Video will come later. Exhaustion is the word that keeps coming to mind. My wife, her grandmother, mother, and brother. Napoli.…
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A pizza a day
It’s a modest plan. When we went to Italy two years ago, I’m pretty sure it was a gelato a day, minus the one time we substituted some fantastic pastries. That could happen again, but the odds are good that I’ll be consuming, at minimum, either a pizza or a gelato every day of the…
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The Mystery Spot and other poorly-kept secrets
It took me almost three months to finish this roll of black & white film, (That’s the old stuff with the sprocket holes, kids.) but I like what I’ve got, despite having to run everything through a little extra photoshopping to get rid of some weird scanner gridlines that were overlaid on top of everything.…
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The print edition – y’know – for kids
Fellow SJSU grad student Patrick Dwire has a great cover story in this week’s Santa Cruz Good Times, one of our intrepid alternative weeklies here in the Cruz. Patrick takes a look at what newspapers all over the country are doing to try and hook the 18-24 set. (Note to self: I’m not the target…
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Cheers and jeers: Local media coverage of student protests for immigrant rights
Thousands of California high school students walked out of classes on Monday, adding their voices to the weekend’s protests against proposed legislation, still pending in the U.S. House of Representatives, that would make being an illegal immigrant a felony. Sounds like a great story, right? Lots of minority teenagers organizing on their own to take…
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Travel the world, meet interesting people, blog for the New York Times
Win a trip to the developing world with Nick Kristof. What? And you won’t just be watching. I want you to report as well – probably in a Web log or video blog on the New York Times Web site, maybe in some other way. I’m open to other ideas as well, but I want…
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A note to my acquaintances
Just a quick note to the many people I’ve met in the last year-and-change in graduate school: A single link from your blog, site, profile, or whatever to a single racist joke of any sort will make me hit the “unsubscribe” button to both your RSS feed and your credibility as a human being faster…
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US gold medalist uses his two minutes of fame to help Darfur
Heard this one on NPR, clock radio style, first thing this morning: Here’s the brief from npr.org… American speed skater Joey Cheek did something very unusual after winning the 500 meter race at the Winter Olympics. He announced he’s contributing his $25,000 gold medal award from the U.S. Olympic Committee to refugees from Darfur. And…
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That’s better
I’d like to apologize to anyone reading this via RSS today. Sorry. I’m writing this from inside Dave Winer’s OPML editor, and it’s all nicely done. Now to add the categories…
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Freedom of the press is not freedom from responsibility
The Danish Cartoon mess reminds me of why I wanted to go back to school in the first place. I usually explain it this way: Freedom of speech and freedom of the press do not, in any way shape or form, negate one’s freedom to be an asshole. I decided to go to graduate school…