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Hey! I'm back! It's been a long absence and it's not that I haven't thought of things to blog about, it's just that I haven't had to time to form a coherent response (see several previous entries - What was ...
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I have more labels than posts. Is that bad? Is it good? How did that happen? Can I hide some of them? I'm a little embarrassed by it actually. It makes me seem very obsessive, which I guess I am ...
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My boyfriend just said something to me, in relation to my arguments, that is particularly interesting, they (my arguments) are "always already almost there," or was it "almost always already there?"br /br /Either way . . . back to work!div ...
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pDiedrich's at UCI is closing soon, but they just started charging for ice water, refills of hot water for tea, and refills of iced tea and drip coffee. I don't get it. How much do they think they are going ...
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pSince Art Buchwald, famously humorous columnist for iThe Washington Post/i, pased away last month, there has been much buzz around the subject of "online video obituaries." This is because a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2007/01/18/obituaries/20070118_BUCHWALD_FEATURE.html"his/a was the first in a (proposed?) series of online ...
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pWhat is behind this whole mandatory vaccine thing? Before I moved my blog to blogger, I posted a bit about a href="http://aguimarin.googlepages.com/criticallycultural"immunizations/a on October 12, 2006. I basically pointed out that the former CEO of Merck, Raymond Gilmartin, gave money ...
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pS.S.P. = Shameless Self Promotion/pbr /pI have been ivited to present at the Critical Studies Graduate Student Conferencebr /at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. The conference theme is a href="http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/critical-studies/zdc-student-group/deaths-of-cinema-conference.htm"Deaths of Cinema/a My title is "MyDeathSpace ...
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pI got this:br /object width="425" height="350"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6gmP4nk0EOE"/paramparam name="wmode" value="transparent"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6gmP4nk0EOE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"/embed/object/pbr /from a href="http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/anthro/wesch.htm"Mike/a a href="http://savageminds.org/author/mike/"Wesch,/a who I met at AAA. I emailed Mike asking for a copy of the paper he presented at AAA, and ...
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pI was just informed that the panel on which I was invited to present has been accepted for the a href="http://www.aaanet.org/spa/biennial07.htm"Society for Pyschological Anthropology Biennial Meeting/a. The panel is organized by a href="http://www.geocities.com/_ynot_/Home.html"Jonathan Marion/a and is titled, "Re-Embodying Identity." Here ...
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. . . if The Man is American Express. br /pI got one of thesebr /img src="http://nwitimes.com/millionaire/giftcard.jpg"/img srcbr /(except mine was only for $25) for Christmas from some parents at the school where I work. I used it a few ...
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pHow do you go about "culturally enlightening" your co-workers? How? /pbr /br /pShould you even try? What about your family members? Is your uncle ever going to stop telling stories about the "ragheads that run the burger king?" Is you ...
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Why should it be a suprise that I care to pronounce peoples' names correctly? Why?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37451083-12702976277236696?l=criticallycultural.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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pThis post started as a comment on a Savage Minds post, a href="http://savageminds.org/2006/01/16/what-is-good-anthropological-writing/""What is good anthropological writing?"/a, wherein a href="http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/"Thomas Eriksen/a asked, "Which were the texts that made an indelible impression on you, and why?" The following is my answer:br ...
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pYes, yes he did. He is 8 years old and he just asked me if I was going to Google his mother./pbr /pI work at an elementary a href="http://www.cdc.uci.edu"school/a for kids with ADHD and related behavior and learning problems, including ...
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For the touching a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/12/13/koinange.bushmen/index.html?eref=rss_topstories"story/a of a "simple man," I thank you, CNN. ECK!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37451083-8390845441405344460?l=criticallycultural.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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pWow! I cannot believe the online response to the breaking news of the a href="http://www.ice.gov/"ICE/a multi-state raid of meat packing plants across the Mid and Southwest. I was going to wait to post until I had a more developed argument, ...
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On Sunday I posted to HASTAC about Open Access Anthropology. a href="http://www.hastac.org/node/598"Check it out/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37451083-2633938218642307500?l=criticallycultural.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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pLast night I watched The Daily Show and The Colbert Report at their 8 and 8:30 pm re-air times. As always, I took their commentary as sarcastic, but I wondered whether the rest of their audience did so . . ...
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I've just made my first blog post to a href="http://www.hastac.org/"HASTAC:/aHumanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, a sponsored project of the a href="http://www.usc.edu/"University of Southern California/a a href="http://www.annenberg.edu/"Annenberg Center for Communication/a. You can view it a href="http://www.hastac.org/node/591"here/a. It's (kinda) a ...
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pThe a href="http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Conferences/Past/2006/November/SA/EU/EU-AU.htm"EU -Africa Ministerial Conference on Migration and Development/a took place last week, November 22-23. I check Google News headlines daily because, for whatever reason, I think (or rather used to think) that it was relatively un-biased and represented ...
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pSometimes I can't think of good titles for my posts, especially when they aren't about any one thing or don't have a general theme, so I will use this 'voyage log' style in these cases./pbr /pI went to the library ...
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pThis was my first and hopefully not my last experience visiting and presenting at "The Triple As." I was happy to have presented early in the week as this left me relaxed to enjoy the rest of the conference. My ...
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pToday (technically yesterday) marked the end of the Visual Research Conference. We saw some great stuff from a href="http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/~beaver/english/index.html"Kate Hennessy/a, a href="http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/events/Detail.CFM?Events_EventId=216Event_Detail=okView=Full"Guido Carlo Pigliasco/a and 3 of a href="http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~biella/"Peter Biella’s/a a href="http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2006/spring/52.htm"students/a from his Visual Anthropology class at San Francisco ...
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After some bad accident-related traffic on Hwy 17, I made it to the Convention Center just 15 minutes after 9 am. Presentations had not yet started, so that worked out well for me. a href="http://www.geocities.com/_ynot_/Home.html"Jonathan Marion/a gave his presentation on ...
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pI voted last Tuesday. I got my sticker and wore it on my shirt until I changed into my pjs. Then I stuck it on my laptop, covering the ergonomic warning label because I don't like to be reminded that ...