by Michael in Mali. Life is all about contrasts. You need to take it all in. I truly believe that. Last Wednesday was the end of Ramadan. After a busy day visiting people all over the city, and an evening sharing a few drinks with some friends, I headed home. Before getting too far though, [...]
Below are a few quotes about the Gaza pullout, and then a draft of an attempt to put into words how terrorism is an ineffective tactic for interaction in the long term. All this is, really, is a difficult exploration of an impossibly difficult situation, and some thoughts about communication… Abbas: “The credit for the [...]
by Risa Dickens What I didn’t quite say in my first open source related public talk… Well, I walked into the conference room at CRIM for my little talk about OpenJournaL last night and immediately began deciding to ditch my written presentation and just have a talk with these folks. The guys that straggled in [...]
Caithream is a shout of joy or triumph or a battle cry. It’s a sound that sits on two sides of human experience, and so in a way it echoes back some information about the connectedness of opposing things. The Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) based Caithream dance company performs a similar smiling function, stitching traditional Scottish [...]
Read up on the history of the Salon: THE POWER OF CONVERSATION: JEWISH WOMEN AND THEIR SALONS. Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government “…without the face-to-face relationships and networks of interest created in society, the American experiment in government could not function. Into this conundrum, writes [...]
Last night about twenty fine couples shook their stuff with all their hearts at the strange, tiny and fabulous anomaly that is Blizzarts bar on St.Laurent, here in Montreal. Even when I was about seventeen this spot was tops. Back when it used to be called Flipsides (if I remember right) and my highschool friend [...]
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