babies pt. 2

to continue in my recent tradition of unfinished thoughts digsuised as blog posts (sorry babies but you were just too cute for me to intelligently and clearly explain why a yurt birth in namibia is so much more appealing to me than the drugged up hospital scenes of san francisco) i give to you, dear [...]

Read Full Post »

we will miss you howard zinn

howard zinn died last month, and so i decided to finally finish a people’s history of the united states. a very good decision, one that i highly recommend.   zinn was a history professor, scholar, writer, and playwright. he writes history from the point of view of the oppressed (poor people, black people, women, american [...]

Read Full Post »

aesthetically pleasing shit

found genevieve dimmitt on gawker this morning.   her photos are beautifully starkly deceivingly simple.   they are also laden with beautiful color, and make us feel warm and toasty inside.   her style is super versatile, from seemingly-but-not-really sterile black & white shots to photos bathed in saturated grainy polaroid-esque color.   her artist’s [...]

Read Full Post »

The Obama Brand

Every one and their 4 year old child knows that Barack Obama is hip.  He was just chosen for obvious reasons as Time Magazine’s person of the year, which includes the inspiration for this posting.  Obama is, for many, the anthropomorphic representation of that which has been lacking in America – in politics, morals, ideals, [...]

Read Full Post »