http://www.jedicist.org/blog Jed's Writings, Wherabouts, thoughts Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:08:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A summer writer's workshop that I've been participating in had a session on myth and mythmaking last week.  Afterwards, I went home and wrote myself a myth, which I present here in its raw, typed form (ie, forgive my spelling and editing).  It turned out to be a sad myth, ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=134 Those of you who know me or follow this blog will not be surprised that I am offended at the controversy over the building of a mosque in lower Manhattan.  Of course, I'm not offended at the mosque, I'm offended that there's a controversy.  And the way it's being fought, ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=133 Just a follow up post to the one earlier this week on immigration in Arizona. Although the blog below was published by Huffington Post, it was never linked to off of the main Huffinton Post Politics page.  There could be any number of editorial reasons for this.  One of them is ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=132 Posted On Huffington Post Politics TUCSON, AZ -- Although Judge Susan Bolton's ruling last week to halt the enactment of certain provisions of S.B. 1070, Arizona's harsh new immigration law, was an important step, it does not provide resolution to the bitter controversy surrounding the law, nor does it change the ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=131 It is a massive Self that is responsible for these myriad injustices, tyrannies, exploitations which plague us all, which prevent us from pursuing a life of intellectual, moral, or spiritual purity without implicit and inescapable hypocracy--we are (I am) ultimately responsible, we are (I am) ultimately powerless.  I speak of ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=129 I'm on my second week of my introductory bookmaking class, and I adore it; although I'm not the most crafty of gents, I think that with practice I'll be able to bind the books that I want to.  My end goal is to be able to offer limited hand bound ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=128 From a friend of mine in Hyderabad, Prakash Kona http://sociologicalimagination.org/posts/prakashkona/iron-man-and-the-%E2%80%9Cbigger-dick%E2%80%9D-us-foreign-policy-in-the-third-world/ Iron Man is an arrogant, patronizing, racist prick who stands for everything that makes the United States such a crazy drunk ape of a regime. He just belongs to the long line of James Bonds and Supermans and Rambos ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=127 Yesterday, I was thinking about the elements.  Without being didactic, today the word refers to the possible atomic configurations represented on the periodic table, which includes elements that are unfamiliar or nonexistent in nature, but possible in a laboratory.  Once, of course, the word referred to Earth Air Fire Water.  ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=126 In looking for my keys (aargh, where are my keys?) I pulled out my small pile of scraps and fragments that my typewriter has generated over the last few weeks.  This blog was originally conceived as a public notebook, and this post is in line with that: these fragments are ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=124 I'm sitting here in my white polyester pants and a white t-shirt waiting to go to Capoeira.  I began stepping up Capoeira training about two months ago, and it Sometimes I feel like I wait all week to go to Capoeira, I look forward to it all week.  Then, on ... http://www.jedicist.org/blog/?p=123