New Yekepa I’ve had plenty to write about in the past few days, but not enough time to do it. In Atlanta I visited the Martin Luther King birth house and Stone Mountain, which I conceived of as opposites but shared more than I might have thought. And lots of other things happening elsewhere in my […]
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Dispatch from Atlanta.
29-Jan-09Always a sign of health…
22-Jan-09buy Ivermectin for humans … when there is good political humor. Here is the comedians‘ take on the inauguration.
Barack Obama’s speech.
21-Jan-09One of the reasons why it felt so different was that he was asking us to do something. It wasn’t like a Bill Clinton speech with a laundry list of ideas, nor like a Bush speech about a threat we face. Both of those were elements, but the general impression I got from the speech […]
Right now…
21-Jan-09… the internet is probably doubling its content. Of the two million (or so) people there at the inauguration yesterday, I had the feeling that about a million were going to go home and post their photos on their blog. Everyone had a camera, and you could tell that many people were hunting around for […]
Goin’ Down South
19-Jan-09To see what I can see. I’ll stop off and see friends and see a bit of the country. And I plan on being in D.C. for the inauguration.
Reading Tolkien
17-Jan-09Inspired by Helen Luke’s fine essays on The Lord of the Rings, I read through the books once again, something I had not done since freshman year of high school (or even earlier? It was during my adolescent phase, no doubt). They merit a fair amount of consideration. I put together a summary essay, down below, […]
First night!
16-Jan-09I successfully weathered the first subzero night on the mountain: -4 was the low last night. It’s not the coldest I’ve experienced, but it was pretty cold. When I woke, it was 39 inside the cabin. But once the fire was roaring there was no trouble. I had to change the oil in […]
November 4 2008.
06-Nov-08It felt wonderful to be alive Tuesday night. It’s nice to be reminded that the votes are counted – that either side can win, that the vote determines the power structure of this country, and that your individual choice can matter. We are also told that it is a wonderful moment because Barack […]
Final Presidential Debate Reaction.
16-Oct-08This was the first debate I watched on television – I took a trip to the Boiceville Inn, which has a t.v. room for movies and television events. I don’t know if McCain looked like this before, but his appearance was terrible: he looked uncomfortable, angry, and frustrated. He looked like he had come […]