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I'm using a New York Times article for a research paper and all I can think is "Why is this woman allowed to write for the times?" Like, seriously. Some of the worst writing I have encountered in a long time but the article has some really useful information for the angle of my paper so I can't just discount it... UUUUGH! Some winners:
"Thus inspired, she completed her Ph.D., showing, to the shock of herself and the entire scientific community, that humans and chimpanzees have more than 99 percent of their DNA in common."
"Dr. King, who is 47, is an unreclaimed liberal, and she is delighted that her headquarters, wedged in the middle of a building devoted to forestry science, has a bit of history to it."
"She won her greatest fame by working in Argentina with a human rights group, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, attempting to reunite, with their families, children who were kidnapped in the 1970's and early 1980's by the Argentinian military junta."
ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF COMMAS AND AWKWARD RUN ON SENTENCES!
"Yet in spite of it all, she manages to look young for her age, with a slab of dark hair that seems almost immobilized by its own thickness. Doesn't she ever feel overwhelmed? "Of course I feel overwhelmed!" she said, her voice rising up in a whoop ever so slightly reminiscent of Julia Child.
"What does being overwhelmed have to do with it?" She walks and talks so swiftly that by comparison one feels trapped in resin. Not a Bloodless Drone
"She's insightful, irreverent, energetic, a wonderful antidote to the notion people have of scientists as lifeless, bloodless drones," said Dr. Eric Lander, a molecular biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, who is an old friend. "
PLEASE NOTICE THE SENTENCE FRAGMENT WITH THE LACK OF PUNCTUATION AND RANDOM CAPITALIZATION, MISPLACED MODIFIERS AND RANDOM SLIGHTLY INAPPROPRIATE OBSERVATIONS!
Look, guys I'm not usually too critical of others writing. I know I make a lot of grammar faux pas myself. But! She writes for the mother fucking New York Times. I did a little research and found out she once wrote an article "Ew, don't touch it: Why is nature sometimes so ugly?" And now she writes for the New York Times. Not a Bloodless Drone
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Originally posted by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) cluegirl at StrowlerCon Feed Hey everyone! Last night was, in a word, AWESOME! For those of you who happened to glance at this blog last night, you saw me mention that the concerts and shows were going out on live feed, right? Well, this is where it gets better. For the balance of today, right up until TONIGHT'S live feed goes out, we are leaving access to last night's broadcast up. That's right, y'all get a replay option! If you missed seeing Kellianna's stunning opening act; if you tuned in too late to hear ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) s00j and stealthcello play the Skinny White Chick set; if you didn't get to see all of the Gypsy Nomads; or if you're stuck down at New York Comic Con, and missing Catherynne Valente more than you can bear, and would like to have a slice of her readings -- Hint; there was new stuff. Oh yes, there was! -- and S.J. Tucker's awesome songspinnings around those words -- Hint; there were new songs too!; if you missed the pasty-splosion of Rogue Burlesque... We've got it handled for you! You will also notice, as you click over to check out the awesome that is the live stream replay , that there is a little widget to the right of the screen, which will let you tip the artists you like and love. Let me say it again, because I am a busker myself, and this is Relevant to my Interests: Tip the acts you enjoy. Just a bit of pocket change adds up to make the difference for a Strowler, you know. In the words of a wise man: "A little money makes the difference between an adventure, and an ordeal." Tonight's feed will feature Kellianna at 7:00, followed by Heather Dale at 8:00, Sharon Knight at :9:00, Tricky Pixie at 10:00, and the Vagabond Vaudeville show at 11:00. And finally, SHILL THIS POST! Oh, beloveds, let the internet ring with this ephemeral opportunity to sample our awesome! |
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Originally posted by shadesong at HELL YEAH STROWLERCON  StrowlerCon is October 8-10 in Woburn, MA, and we are going to rock like you would not believe. Join us in the Grand Ballrooms of the Woburn Holiday Inn, just north of Boston, on Columbus Day weekend — October 8th-10th, 2010 — for three nights of entertainment (live music, circus arts, burlesque) and two days of workshops, panels and other activities, including a special 10/10/10 celebration, and a Maker Showcase featuring inventions and material creations as well as artwork by local creators and attendees.Click there to buy tickets - $45 for the weekend, $25 per day for day passes (so if you're going for more than one day, it pays to just buy the $45 weekend pass). To reserve your hotel room, e-mail lodging@strowlers.com. Can't go but want to support StrowlerCon and sponsor a strowler? We have supporting memberships, and they come with goodies. Okay. You have the technical details. But 'song, you say, what did you say about ROCKING? Here you GO. Friday night: Concerts by SJ Tucker, Kellianna, and Gypsy Nomads, and the MONSTERS' BALL featuring SJ Tucker, Catherynne Valente, Lee Harrington, and other special guests! Saturday: * Day One of a two-day intensive writing workshop with Catherynne Valente ( yuki_onna)! * Sacred Kink and Rope Sex workshops with the amazing Lee Harrington! * Burlesque workshop! * Guitar workshop with Ben Deschamps! * Costuming workshop with cluegirl, the Wandering Legion, and Lady Cyanide! * Poi-spinning tutorial with K Wiley ( omnisti)! * "Zen for Clowns" - Beginning Contact Juggling and Object Manipulation with Russ Sharek! * A reading by yuki_onna! * Panels about Making Your Own Way; Strowlers in Myth, Legend, and Folklore; disaster stories from street theater; and Meet the Performers sessions with Tricky Pixie and Sharon Knight! Saturday night: Concerts by Tricky Pixie, Sharon Knight, Heather Dale, and Kellianna - and a naughty nightime show, Vagabond Vaudeville: Mountebanks, Shewers of Tricks, and Wanderers of Fortune, with tawdry circus performers, bodacious burlesque by Rogue Burlesque, a rope show by Lee Harrington, MCing by the infamous lightcastle, and so much more! (This will probably be your only chance to see me tied up on stage, I am just saying. So if that is relevant to your interests, hey!) Sunday: * VIP brunch to celebrate 10:10:10! * Day Two of the writing workshop! * Maskmaking workshop with ioianthe of The Uncommon Facade! * Busking for Beginners with cluegirl! * Juggling for Beginners with slipjig! * Circus Arts for Beginners with Frank Mohr! * Improv workshop with Frank Mohr! * Vocal workshop with Sharon Knight! * Origami workshop with Andrew Anselmo! * Gentlemen's Duelling with the Wandering Legion! * A reading by me (Shira Lipkin)! * An hour with s00j and yuki_onna! * Accessory-making workshop with cluegirl, Lady Cyanide, and potentially others! * Panels on cross-media collaboration (with s00j, yuki_onna, kythryne, and me) and Music as Magic; Meet the Performers sessions with s00j, yuki_onna, Heather Dale, and the Gypsy Nomads! Sunday night: Concerts by Heather Dale, Sharon Knight, and the Gypsy Nomads, and the StrowlerCon Challenge - a no-holds-barred open mic where you might actually get to see me dance. All of this AND a maker showcase and art show and vendors including Kythryne of Wyrding Studios, rivenwanderer of purpleshiny, Dark Siren Designs, Parrish Relics, Red Fork Empire, Behind the Mask, and many more, with demos going all the time! So buy those tickets (only $45 for all of this!), reserve that hotel room, and come have truly epic amounts of fun at StrowlerCon. This is going to rock. your. socks.
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Guys, if you have not read Einstein's Dreams, you must. If you live near to me, I can lend you our copy for the hour it will take you to read it... otherwise seek it out.
I dearly loved this little book, and I want to share almost every page with you. Instead, I'll settle for a single bit (for tonight anyway):
A young woman sits near a fountain in the Botanischer Garten. She comes here every Sunday to smell the white double violets, the musk rose, the matted pink gillyflowers. Suddenly, her heart soars, she blushes, she paces anxiously, she becomes happy for no reason. Days later, she meets a young man and is smitten with love. Are the two events not connected? But by what bizarre connection, by what twist in time, by what reversed logic?
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions. Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
Most people have learned how to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. Families comfort a dying uncle not because of a likely inheritance, but because he is loved in that moment. Employees are hired not because of their resumes, but because of their good sense in interviews. Clerks trampled by their bosses fight back at each insult, with no fear for their future. It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
(emphasis mine)
And that's just part of one beautiful, heartbreaking, breathtaking imagining of time.
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