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The White Girl Imagines For A Moment That She Can See The Future And It Is Just As Jimmy Santiago Baca Has Said

Monday, November 20, 2000

There is a shift in the atmosphere in the cafeteria, a low-pressure zone where the director usually stands– the electricity before a storm which makes animals run around like they’re touched in the head.

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Blogging

Monday, November 13, 2000

I finally got around to reading the article in the New Yorker about Blogger. It wasn’t as bad as I’d thought. In fact, it was kind of frivolous; felt like a return to the bad old Tina Brown days. I guess that was intentional. It was a light fluffy piece which didn’t come to a […]

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Chat Rooms

Monday, November 6, 2000

I have been using chat rooms and other written forms of electronic communication for seven years now, but every now and again the openness of the medium makes me giddy. I enter a chat room: what does that mean? I can be connected to the forum for hours without saying anything. I can evoke images […]

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The Leadership People/ Halloween and the Great Uninterested

Sunday, November 5, 2000

There is an industry out there which is training people to run workshops like this. A folder full of xeroxed truisms and a few hours spent falling into each others’ arms to demonstrate trust is its prescription for everything from strained labor relations to troubled youth.

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Today’s brightly-colored amusement

Sunday, October 29, 2000

Here’s today’s brightly-colored amusement…

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Anarcho-Syndicalism

Saturday, October 28, 2000

Today I am reading about Anarcho-Syndicalism. I am not reading any of the stupid manifestos, only the practical stuff. If you think anarcho-syndicalism is only about throwing rocks at policemen and staying up past year bedtime and eating only sugar, you should probably read this too.

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Now this is ridiculous.

Friday, October 27, 2000

Now this is ridiculous. I wonder if Gore will even see this petition. I do wish there was a better way to effect coalition-building in this country…

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from a letter to Chase

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Subject: I laughed until tears came to my eyes (which wasn’t too much of a stretch, seeing as it’s one of those perma-tear days at my house… I screamed myself hoarse at my afterschool class of third-graders today, and then actually burst into tears in front of them. you know there’s no going back when […]

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Pika-your-bum!

Monday, October 23, 2000

Pika-your-bum!

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Vote Bush. I mean Gore.

Sunday, October 22, 2000

I first heard from Emmanuel Goldstein about this story… as he said, this is too good to be true. The Democrats and Republicans must be using the same ad agency… Update 10/26: It was too good to be true. It was a hoax, as Catherine and Chase pointed out. too bad. At the same time, […]

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