odds & ends
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likethebeer*mda's company has a plantation in Sumatra. They've not heard anything regarding how this town is fairing following the tsunami. It's in a more mountainous area, but in the north, which was hit v/badly; and also felt the effects of the earthquake. I'm hoping the consortium will do something nice, but mda hasn't found out anything. I still think they should do it.
*I've started reading the FLLW bio. It's like a long essay. It's well written. She's a Pulitzer Prize winner. It's obvious she's never been to Tal., just from what she writes, or does not write, about the building. I've found a few things, the most egregious so far is that she's wrong about the # of people killed in the 1914 fire. It's true that on the day of the fire, 3 people were alive, but 1 person died the next day, leaving 2, not 3, survivors. How could someone get something that basic wrong? I get so sick of this. [the Ken Burns documentary got the year that Wright's mother died wrong. It's not like this is some incredibly obscure fact. ppphhht.] I'm not asking for some dry, over-footnoted tome, but can we just get the facts right? That'll be a good start.
I'm sure I will write more. I'm reading it while holding a pencil [1 of the joys of owning a book].
And, oh, she describes TII (the building after the first fire) either ambiguously or doesn't understand that rebuilt structure. It's at the point that I wrote the word "bullshit" at the bottom of a page. I think she might have looked at a 1924 floor plan that shows a detail of the building that did not exist in TII. She doesn't have to be an expert in Tal., but (a) most of the people who study/write about it talk about the fact that the plans are inconsistent and (b) there are TII pictures that she could have looked at.
*speaking of writing, Susan Sontag died today of leukemia. She was 71. I think I referenced her in my thesis. I know I read her "Notes on Camp" somewhere along the way at that time.
*I found out today that we've got a new health insurance company, our premiums will be lower, and I won't have to have $69 taken out every paycheck! I've figured that amounts to an $.87/hour raise, or about my half of the car payment per month.
*I've started reading the FLLW bio. It's like a long essay. It's well written. She's a Pulitzer Prize winner. It's obvious she's never been to Tal., just from what she writes, or does not write, about the building. I've found a few things, the most egregious so far is that she's wrong about the # of people killed in the 1914 fire. It's true that on the day of the fire, 3 people were alive, but 1 person died the next day, leaving 2, not 3, survivors. How could someone get something that basic wrong? I get so sick of this. [the Ken Burns documentary got the year that Wright's mother died wrong. It's not like this is some incredibly obscure fact. ppphhht.] I'm not asking for some dry, over-footnoted tome, but can we just get the facts right? That'll be a good start.
I'm sure I will write more. I'm reading it while holding a pencil [1 of the joys of owning a book].
And, oh, she describes TII (the building after the first fire) either ambiguously or doesn't understand that rebuilt structure. It's at the point that I wrote the word "bullshit" at the bottom of a page. I think she might have looked at a 1924 floor plan that shows a detail of the building that did not exist in TII. She doesn't have to be an expert in Tal., but (a) most of the people who study/write about it talk about the fact that the plans are inconsistent and (b) there are TII pictures that she could have looked at.
*speaking of writing, Susan Sontag died today of leukemia. She was 71. I think I referenced her in my thesis. I know I read her "Notes on Camp" somewhere along the way at that time.
*I found out today that we've got a new health insurance company, our premiums will be lower, and I won't have to have $69 taken out every paycheck! I've figured that amounts to an $.87/hour raise, or about my half of the car payment per month.
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