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random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
Anyhow, I have never written a plot-driven novel. I admire plot from a vast distance, with unenvious admiration. I don't do it; never did it; don't want to; can't. My stories are driven (rather slowly and erratically, with pauses to admire apparently irrelevant scenery) by a different chauffeur.
Reading: Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert J. Pennock; Music: Disco, “Carmen”, Chumbawamba, Judy Garland, “Red Hot + Blue” (Cole Porter covers), Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips “Fellow Workers”, Klezmatics “I Ain’t Afraid” (cover of Holly Near song)
Recently read: “Science Friction: The growing and dangerous divide between scientists and the GOP” by Nicholas Thompson, Washington Monthly, July/August 2003.
Recently read: “Miscarriage of Justice” by Robert J. Howe, Salon.com, 2004-03-24 (fiction)
I’m out in DC, attending an IP Clinics meeting. Interesting how there are so many “access” clinics now, dedicated to small business / entrepreneurship — helping people get IP. Will the policy-oriented clinics be outweighed by the transactional clinics? Are we even the same kinds of clinics? I’m not sure. update 2006/2/7: I should have [...]
Fundrace.org – See who contributes how much to whom. Depressing how most contributions to Bush seem to be $1000 and $2000. No wonder the man has quadrillions of dollars.
Insomnia, maybe. This is the first personal website that I’ve developed since, umm, 1994/95 — a website I took down in 1996/97 and haven’t used since. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of web pages, for personal use, projects, & other folks, but none about “me” in years and years.
Recently attended the 9th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair.