Daybook

reading: Famine. A symposium dealing with Nutrition and relief operations in times of disaster, the proceedings of a 1970 meeting on the issue. I’m trying to understand what actually happens to humans, both physiologically and culturally, in famine-causing drought. reading 2: I was fascinated by the whole Hugo Chavez-Chomsky thing, and I’d not read Hegemony [...]

Daybook

reading: Linda Cordell’s Archaeology of the Southwest. This is one of those standards that you’re supposed to have lying around to refer to, but who actually reads these? (I am, actually. Great overview of what’s known.) music: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale doing Pipeline. Do they have waves in Texas? bonus extra track: Don [...]

St. Barbara

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Cinco de Mayo

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Happy Pi Day. Do something special at 1:59 this afternoon (if you didn’t already at 1:59 this morning).

St. Agnes

Today being the day of St. Agnes, we are apparently supposed to put pee in our shoes. Or something. I’m a little unclear on this one. Agnes was just 13 years old back in the day when (as the Book of Days puts it) “she sang hymns while the executioner was hacking at her neck”. [...]