Starting tomorrow, while I’m busy with a household move, I’m presenting excerpts–some several pages long, some very brief–from the thirteen essays in the thesis I submitted this summer for my MFA (I’m using the magic of scheduled publishing to make these fragments appear while I am otherwise occupied).
Here’s an excerpt from the Introduction to [...]
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The Comcast 2.0 Experience
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The best part of household moves: dealing with utility services. “Corinne” hung up on me without answering my question. Oh, the arrogance of virtual hegemony.
I can’t order cable until the previous owners cancel.
I can’t even order broadband until [...]
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My online banking has been giving me these messages:
“The service for your external transfers account has been closed.”
“There is no account associated with that transaction.”
The transactions look fine, and payments happen… but these messages (in bolded dark orange) made me anxious.
So naturally I waded through dialpad hell (Would you like to hear an [...]
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Trip Itinerary
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For today’s lunchtime post I bring you… the trip itinerary!
We’re staying at two places we’ve enjoyed: the surprisingly comfortable Wigwam Motel in Holbrook and at the Big Texan in Amarillo, where we watched a man try to eat [...]
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I have this feature on my blog that displays “On This Day” posts from previous years. Mostly I ignore these because I think I know what I said. But today’s post from 2004, about not having a summer vacation, intrigued me.
Now I’m really uplifted, even a bit teary, which really has to stop as I [...]
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Big car in compact space
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I’m currently tiptoeing between two vendors on an issue related to What Version of Linux To Use (a Red Hat versus Slackware issue, and don’t get me started), but did want to note that my Flickr set about [...]
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Roy Tennant tackles the F-word head-on in this LJ article about women in technology. Good for him not to leave this discussion for the same ten women to carry over and over and over!
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It had to wait until I did some hardware magic to make this all work much better (don’t you love memory? Like money, it’s hard to have too much of it), but at last I’ve uploaded my favorite clip from a Fourth of July celebration. If the video below doesn’t work, try this link.
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Following up on comments about my MFA thesis…
I’d like to see my essays published as a collection. I’d also like a MacArthur genius grant, six weeks at Yaddo, and slim, firm thighs.
But really, I’d like to see my essays published, period. Some of them–an essay about gay marriage, another about desire–are highly marketable. Some [...]
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Did you notice there are two lesbian couples in the NYT’s wedding announcements this morning? (This is how I start Sundays: flipping to the back of the Styles section and counting the gay wedding announcements. Then I read Modern Love and feel superior or jealous, depending on the essay.)
Yesterday we turned a corner. Now we [...]
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