http://www.commonplacejournal.org Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:40:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm a sucker for them. electrical apocalypse by melissamaples H5N1 relapse by wishy Streetcleaner, Čečovje, Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenija) by r.marin more: Textures and Layers Group on Flickr one of my own recent efforts can be seen here. http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/08/15/textures-and-layers/ Ludo pastes his visions of nature mutating in self-defense on the walls and doorways of Paris: via PSFK http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/08/10/natures-revenge/ Conversation on the way to the first day of Celtic Music Camp up in the redwoods: "I wonder if the other kids have names for their instruments." "I wonder too. What's your harp named again?" "Jasper Moon." "Oh yeah, I forgot it's a boy." "Yes, but he's gay. " One of the biggest events in her ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/08/06/the-mysterious-life-of-young-girls/ By now, I suppose everyone* has seen and formed an opinion about Barry Blitt's illustration for the July 21 New Yorker cover: No one really disputes that it is only a slightly exaggerated depiction of the way some Americans view the Obamas. But people who think it is a Bad ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/08/01/the-revolution-will-not-be-on-the-cover-of-the-new-yorker/ Overheard on Pacific Avenue: "Santa Cruz is a great place to live. I've only got the shit beaten out of me once in 28 years." http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/04/16/quality-of-life-one-measure/ Language Log's Barbara Partee writes about a new kind of Internet slang born from switching back and forth between international character sets when keyboarding: I have a Live Journal account where my "friends" are mainly young Russian linguists, so most of the posts are in Russian, in the Cyrillic alphabet, but ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/03/01/%d0%b4%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%balytdybr%d0%bb%d1%8b%d1%82%d0%b4%d1%8b%d0%b1%d1%80-a-new-kind-of-internet-slang/   Some activity on the internets related to GP Surfboards and the Surface show: Cococello design The show is a collaboration between Brown and surfboard designers, Bruce Gordon and Nick Palandrani of GP Surfboards in a combined effort ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/02/28/surface-ing/ Here is a vocabulary list of some words which have been occurring lately in my vicinity. I invite myself and anyone else who is interested to contemplate this list in hopes of understanding some recent news. vivisector legal protest home invasion stalking attack vandalism sidewalk chalk domestic terrorism police state melodrama http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/02/28/vocabulary-list/ Here's what I encountered  walking home last night. Literally a swarm of cop cars , 7 or 8 cops standing in the front yard of a home, and a crowd of college-age kids. A drug bust, or a really heavy response to ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/02/25/the-key-and-the-battering-ram/ Artem Troitsky, shown here bumming a cigarette off Kino guitarist Yuri Kasparian while lead singer Viktor Tsoi looks on, wrote the book on the 80's underground rock scene in the USSR. He also seems, from what I've read, to be one of the few really independent journalists left in ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/02/24/artem-troitsky-on-the-80s-russian-underground-music-scene/