AMBER

PAUL

MERIDITH

GEMMA

CHRISTIAN

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– PORNOGRAPHY – Yesterday after work, Jess and I met Matt and we attended a panel discussion on the evolution of and social impact of the sex industry, and particularly pornography. It was an interesting debate, with views ranging widely upon the panel and an unruly (and sometimes disrespectful) audience.

A response to earlier comments made:

If history is a river of convergent channels, and we are the rocks and impediments that block its path and roll along beneath the surface, then Wollunqa is the great snake, that slithers back and forth just above us, blotting out the sun, grasping some of us some of the time and rubbing his scales against us to scrub away the algae and make us gleam and shine.

and

From here.

Drop me a note if you like, and I’ll “draw” you.

– YESTERDAY – was the perfect weekday. I got up relatively early, exercised, took a shower, ate breakfast, and wrote a check for the electricity before leaving… this is more of a “morning routine” than I typically have time for.

#3. From Radiation Vibe.

#2. From Purple Scarf.

#1. From wolfbaronxylo. (A little levity in this one…)

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– LAST WEEK AND WEEKEND – I tried to post last Friday, but Blogger’s been doing this thing where it deletes the body of your post at the moment you publish. Not very useful.
On Wednesday, I sat through an interesting but exhausting presentation of a photography book.

Last Monday I posted that Jessica and I had attended Sarah Schulman’s Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons, and I described the piece as “one of the three or four worst” plays I’d ever seen. Gemma was interested in more explanation, so here it is.

Read Whet‘s fanged-but-mouthy post on the Sox vs. Cubs phenom. Also read the somewhat less enlightened, but equally amusing comments at the end.

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NEW YORK REGION:

Everything went well, or at least within the sphere of what was reasonably expected.

Mike Bloomberg won reelection as mayor by a large margin, as everyone knew that he was. My duelling concerns are that he restores some margin of credibility to the Republican party… good to the extent that “credibility” manifests as sanity, bad to the extent that “credibility” is unearned.