I must work on this abstract, which is due soon. The point of presenting at this conference is to restart work on that essay and thus, this book. The presentation must get me back to what I was doing, not just be another fragmentary spin-off. In Being and Blackness in Latin America (2006), Patricia D. … More Abstract
I will have this matting and these tatami mats and that is it. I already have the futon and the buckwheat pillows, and later I will acquire the kakebuton. There are also bamboo mats one could have. I am nervous about these tatami mats, they are 75″ and my space would be 75″ exactly if … More My tatami room
…before the 1980 Reagan landslide. Trump is winning the votes of a lot of people who used to be Democrats. These white, working-class people are his main base of support. As a group, these people were once Democrats all over the country. These are Franklin Roosevelt’s people. These are the people that the Democrats essentially … More People the Democratic Party abandoned
…ma verte cotte je vestirai. I have been trying to decide whether or not to leave the Democratic Party formally. I am going to vote Green for President in November but I am still attached to the mid-century idea of the Democratic Party as the party of the working class. I regret I cannot be … More Ce moys de mai
On the way back from New Orleans I listened to American Family Radio and SonLife Radio. According to American Family Radio the Founders based the country on capitalism, and de Toqueville said that the reason capitalism worked was that the churches fueled it and made sure it was done right. These are the twin roots … More History
I took this test again and ended up in the far lower left corner again. This makes me much more radical than Mahatma Ghandi or Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and virtually every U.S. presidential candidate is in the upper right quadrant, which they share with Adolf. Uncle Joe is in the upper left … More Political compass
Gary Tyler is out today but had to admit (allege) guilt as part of the arrangement. Do people actually believe this plea or did they just want to create him as a permanent felon? It occurs to me that it means he can never sue for wrongful incarceration. This may have been the reason. Axé.
I just threw out a poster I had had since I was sixteen and that was for me a sign of self and home. It had a marvelous red and yellow image and said: BUDDHAS VEJE NATIONALMUSEET I BREDE MAJ-OKTOBER 1970 Daglig 10-17 Tirsdag og torsdag aften 19-22 I did not want to get rid … More Buddhas Veje
The Scandal of the Speaking Body must be an update of The Literary Speech Act. Amazingly, we have the latter book in our library so I can recycle my old photocopy of it. My notes in the margins, from the old days, say that promising turns out to be a big part of language (the … More Shoshana Felman
I have had a fetish for Japanese furniture since I was about two, and I think I should indulge it. I want this pillow in Ya Gasuri blue cloth (or navy). I want real tatami mats and a kakebuton. Axé.
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