August 2011
2 posts
Fired For Walking – equality →
April 2011
4 posts
circumpolar navigation: murderandmetonymy: fuck.... →
jenniferanne:
murderandmetonymy:
fuck. i’m 24. fuck fuck fuckity. fuck. shit. faaaaaaaqqqqqqqqq
Man, one of the replies to this “i’d rather be 24 than 20” reminds me of how when I was in my early 20’s I thought that 24 was the most perfect age. Because you were young enough to be young, but old enough…
FWIW: If you didn’t waste your 20s, you wasted your 20s. Best. Insight.Ever.
Wu-Tang name generator →
jenniferanne:
pterodactyls:
Vicky Johnson from this day forward you you will also be known as Drunken Prophet
I’m not usually one to reblog these things, but my name is GENTLEMEN HUNTER!
“from this day forward you you will also be known as: Vizual Dominator”
Usually these things are cheesy, but this is one time I really can’t complain.
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
Even The Cloud Needs to be Backed Up Routinely
After learning that my partner had his Google Account disabled due to a “glitch” in their system, and thus potentially lost everything -email, yes, but also contacts, Google docs, calendars, his Google voice number and more, all of which are tied variously to credit card accounts (email alerts/auto-pay notifications), personal and professional projects, (from newly written lyrics to...
January 2011
4 posts
My $0.02 on the School District Shenanigans in...
All the attention this story is getting about how racist and generally terrible it is that a mom got in big trouble for sending her kids to a school outside of her district is really hacking me off.
does the punishment fit the crime? if you ask me, sure it sounds a bit steep. but what she did was wrong. she stole. there are other solutions. surely there is a better school within her district....
On Suggested New Year’s Resolutions… →
I recently came across this Houston Press article discussing changes local arts organizations should make. The suggestions were: * The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art Resolves to Stop Producing…
November 2010
3 posts
Music Composition Competition →
Our good friends over at Frame have a big announcement:
“Frame Dance Productions announces its competition to select a piece of music for its upcoming evening-length premiere of Mortar, Sylphs Wrote….
A 1995 Newsweek essay on why people will never buy... →
theinternetaccordingtoadrian:
ronworkman:
(via:nickdouglas)
Those damn “Internet hucksters”.
September 2010
2 posts
“Writer’s block doesn’t mean that you don’t have anything to say. Writer’s block...”
– Sandra Cisneros (via superhussyisms)
Indeed.
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig
(via cocoku) (via jenniferanne, learninglog)
August 2010
7 posts
“Q. And the term “rickroll” you said it tries to make people go to a site where...”
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From the cross-examination of 4chan founder Christopher Poole in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking trial. I read the whole PDF and it’s hilarious! Well, I guess it’s hilarious if you’re willing to read through a bunch of nerdy database stuff before you get to the lulz. (via bluishorange)
fantastic.
More than one path… →
In her new post, “The Road Not Taken”, Joelle Zigman, a student at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where she is pursuing a double degree in English and music composition, illustrates…
Old Spice Guy + FEMINIST HULK + Judith Butler
Old Spice Guy: "Hello, FEMINIST HULK. I observe that you are using lady-scented body wash."
Feminist Hulk: "HULK FIND LAVENDER FRAGRANCE RELAXING AFTER DAY OF SMASH."
Old Spice Guy: "Wouldn't you like to smell like me?"
Feminist Hulk: "HULK WOULD RATHER SMASH GENDER BINARY OF PERFORMATIVE SHOWERING."
Old Spice Guy: "Your tiny purple shorts hanging on the towel rack now hold tickets to the Sleater-Kinney reunion concert. And diamonds."
Feminist Hulk: "HULK ENJOY CORIN TUCKER'S REJECTION OF TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES AND CONSUMERISM. BUT DIAMONDS MAKE HULK WANT TO SMASH HEGEMONY OF POST-COLONIAL OPPRESSION. ALSO, STILL PREFER TO SMELL LIKE FIELD OF FLOWERS."
Old Spice Guy: "You puzzle me, Feminist Hulk. Your wish to use lady-scented body wash, even whilst smelling the intoxicating scent of my Old Spice, is unparalleled in my experience. "
Judith Butler: "Feminist Hulk makes a good critique, Old Spice Man. Your discourse is being circumscribed by a learned sex/gender distinction. Please pass me the loofah."
Old Spice Guy: "Hello, Judith Butler. Allow me to scrub your back. So you and Feminist Hulk are saying that my devotion to Old Spice body wash might be part of a larger regulative discourse to maintain an essential ontological gender?"
Judith Butler: "That's correct, Old Spice Man."
Feminist Hulk: "HULK SMASH EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS, WHILE SMELLING LIKE SPRING GARDEN."
Old Spice Guy: "I understand. Allow me to bake you a cake, Feminist Hulk and Judith Butler, while we discuss intersectionality and the beauty of giant green muscles."
Judith Butler: "Congratulations on making a break with compulsory heterosexuality, Old Spice Man."
Femist Hulk: "HULK IS VERY HAPPY TO SHARE TEARS OF JOY AND ORGANIC WHOLE WHEAT PASTRY FLOUR WITH OLD SPICE MAN AND JUDITH BUTLER."
Old Spice Guy: "I'm on a unicorn."
“TED, the digital world’s most prominent aggregator of big ideas, thinks it can...”
– CV Harquail: Separate Still Isn’t Equal: Sexism Among TED Conferences
Calm down, ladies. We made a conference just for your Lady Stuff. It’s over there away from everything else. Happy? (via bluishorange)
I really don’t get how some people men don’t get it.
Admittedly, I don’t...
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
10 posts
the bug fix
jenniferanne:
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
the bug fix n. the satisfaction of updating software, which gains effortless new features inside the cocoon of the progress bar, whereas your personality—a beta version with compatibility issues, unstable memory and a quirky interface—is open source, trusting peers to collaboratively debug your emotional source code until it’s stable enough for...
“I saw this on the blog of someone in the process of adopting internationally:...”
– mimi smartypants
I would totally live in said fascist grammarian dictatorship.
(via bluishorange)
I might live there, too. Maybe. But what if it really was “Mom’s Without Borders”? My mom has few boundaries, so maybe this was just a statement of fact. Mom is without borders.
(via me3dia)
Or maybe...
No Oil is a Problem too, but don't take my word... →
Some of you may have seen my earlier post on de-demonizing the People of the oil industry. This New York Times article goes into more precise detail about the numbers of people/sizes of communities effected. For example, “the moratorium could last well into 2011, directly jeopardizing 50,000 jobs;” and that’s just deepwater work, expand that to include local oil service...
NASA Face in Space →
6 Ridiculous Arguments That Actually Happened on... →
(via rocketboom) not surprising at all, but definitely quite humorous.
De-Demonizing the People of the Oil Industry
An Open Letter to Those Who Would Boycott BP
Given the crisis in the Gulf, as the media has called it, I can understand some people’s knee jerk reaction to boycott BP in a show of disapproval of the oil company and solidarity with the Gulf. What they are not considering is the broader ramifications of such actions; namely, the effect of their boycott on local economies already devastated by a...
if you don't get it, I don't know you →
bluishorange:
shooshee:
[11:52] : here’s something you’ll appreciate [11:53] : @bigandawesome signed up for twitter and followed ~1000 people in the transmedia scene with http://bigandawesome.com in their user info… but they DIDN’T REGISTER the domain before doing so
NOTE: Visit bigandawesome.com for the punchline. In the geek world we would call this PWNED.
Illustrations of Women Scientists Improves Girls'... →
rocketboom:
Researchers from Rutgers University gave a short chemistry exam to local 9th and 10th graders—29 male and 52 female. The students read three pages of a chemistry text and then took the test on the material. All the texts were the same, but they were illustrated differently. One third of the students saw pictures in which everyone was a man. For another, there were only women in the...
May 2010
5 posts
CFP Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and... →
Call for Papers
Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice will coincide with the 2010 Randolph College Greek Play: Euripides’ Hecuba, an original-practices production. The play and response…
Rice Summer Dance Camp for Children and Teens... →
Know a child or teen who loves to dance? Enrollment for the Rice Summer Dance Camp for Kids is now open!
Summer Dance Camp (Ages 9 - 11)
The Rice Summer Dance Camp is a week of dancing and creative…
60 Cycle Hum →
60 Cycle Hum
(click above link to open)
Workshopped as a part of Fieldwork Houston and presented as a work in progress at the Spring 2010 Showcase, 60 Cycle Hum is the constant, unavoidable noise…
April 2010
4 posts
NEA grants announced →
“The latest round of NEA grants for Access to Artistic Excellence, American Masterpieces, Arts on Radio and Television, Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth and Partnerships is out, and Texas…
DUE May 1 2010 Summer Internship for any Rice... →
“An exciting fellowship is being offered in the summer of 2010 for Rice Undergraduates of any discipline. The program, The Engineering and Design for Art and Artifact Conservation Program, provides…
DUE May 1 Houston Fringe Festival →
Houston Fringe Festival Call for Entries
The Houston Fringe Festival is a four weekend event in which both emerging and established performers and companies from any city or country present artistic…
Welcome →
Hello,
Welcome to my newly renovated site.
February 2010
1 post
DUE March 1: Artadia Awards 2010 Houston →
“ONLINE APPLICATIONS CLOSE MARCH 1, 2010. APPLY NOW!
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue is currently accepting applications for the Artadia Awards 2010
Houston from all visual artists living and…
December 2009
1 post
World Theatre Day SPECT[ACTOR] Proposals DUE Jan... →
All theatre artists are encouraged to submit proposals for random acts of theatre that they would like to stage around [Austin] as a part of the World Theatre Day SPECT[ACTOR] event. Why not dance on…
November 2009
9 posts
Call for Exhibition Proposals →
Central Gallery (on the campus of San Jacinto College Central Campus) is currently soliciting Houston area artists to submit proposals for exhibitions in their new space. email Mark Myers if you are…
p.s. facebook (or, on communicating in the...
in regards to my last post where I said the daily minutia of my life would be on twitter, I should clarify that most of what I post to twitter (and now tumblr, as well) is broadcast to facebook, so there is no reason to adopt that network if you have not and do not wish to do so. I do not post tweets ladened with @’s and #’s because readers on facebook have no desire to attempt to...
my digital life
(to sum up: I’ve decided to have tumblr post to facebook and twitter instead of having it import from twitter. this probably does not affect 99.99% of you, but if it does…well, there ya go. more details follow…)
as some of you know, I maintain a nameplate website. I decided to create one after stumbling across this article. so I created, viatorsmith.com in iWeb*. I realized I...