an online/offline trail of breadcrumbs noticed, seen, read, heard, picked up, picked on, picked over by jorge.mourinha@gmail.com
Nov20
Seems like such a simple question, doesn’t it?
Yet, why do we so often fail to ask it?
Isn’t that the first question we should be asking?
Because, doesn’t being able to answer this question reveal so much about the journey and destination?
Should we even bother moving forward on any choice if…
Isn’t he just right?
Oct27
Photo of the Day: October 26, 2012
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Thousands of Muslim pilgrims arrive to throw pebbles at pillars during the “Jamarat” ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca. Pilgrims pelt pillars symbolizing the devil with pebbles to show their defiance on the third day of the hajj as Muslims worldwide mark the Eid al-Adha or the Feast of the Sacrifice, marking the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and commemorating Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God’s command in the holy city of Mecca.photo: Fayez Nureldine, AFP / Getty Images
Oct21
One take on the end of print journalism. And he’s got a point.
The Star reports that a bull elk, a massive creature that rancher Greg Messner estimates to weigh about half a ton, has been relocated from 100 Mile Ranch in Canada’s western province of British Columbia because it became a dangerous distraction. Messner explains that elk are rare in the area — a passersby dubbed it “The Elk.” “It’s kind of like the Queen,” Messner said. “There’s only one of them.”
The Elk had apparently taken a fancy to Messner’s herd of cows, a romance that evolved gradually over the past three years. He told the Star, “He stuck around for a couple of days the first year,” said Messner. “Then last year, he was just hanging around again for a couple of weeks and not really doing anything, just hanging around and looking at the cows. This year, he decided to go for it.” (read the rest at the link)
(Photo Credit: Tom Reichner) (via Weird news: Elk relocated after having sex with cow in public - Salon.com)
No, really.
Oct20
The difference in reactions to broader gathering and use of users’ data at Google and at Microsoft illustrates the confusion around Internet consumer privacy.
Quite.
Oct16
Do not think since “Jagged Little Pill” was so great, Alanis Morissette has anything left to say that you’ve got to hear.
Ready to declare cinema dead? There is a cure for your malaise. We call it a film festival.
Observations on film art : Got those death-of-film/movies/cinema blues?
Mr. Bordwell knows.
The phone once coveted by the elite and the powerful is becoming an object of ridicule as Androids and iPhones corner the smartphone market.
I get the concept of iPhone envy. But this is ridiculous
Oct15
I read a few months ago that Gloria Steinem hates “Real Housewives of New Jersey” and would be glad to picket it. Well, there’s the big difference between Steinem and me. She sees the show as a distortion of women, while I see it as a revelation of the deep truth about female sexuality. Right there is the proof of why feminism has faded. Those second-wave feminists had a utopian view of women — they constantly asserted that anything negative about women is a projection by men. That’s not what I see on “Real Houswives”! It’s like the Discovery Channel — sending a camera to the African savannah to watch the cheetahs stalking the gazelles! What you’re seeing is the primal battles going on among women. Men are marginalized on these shows — they’re eye candy, to use Obama’s phrase, on the borderlines of the ferocity of female sexuality.
In “Glittering” return, Paglia lets loose - Salon.com
Woah. (Hat-tip Andrew Sullivan.)
As long as there are clusters of people bent on avoiding what is most popular, within those clusters people will compete for status through conspicuous consumption of art and fashion, music and movies, furniture and gadgets, signaling to insiders the quality of their taste or the ingenuity of their search for the authentic, and signaling to the outsiders that they are not one of them. Whether you are a Juggalo in Kentucky or a Kogal in Tokyo, the internal affairs cool police are always on the prowl for posers.
