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new office ceiling

This might not look like much, but to those of you who have been following my saga, this is the current state of my office ceiling. Woo hoo!! No more giant hole! Paint! Cute red paint, even. And later, after I fix that smudge (I am the world’s messiest painter) I’ll put the rest of the fixture up and begin to reckon with moving all of my stuff back into the office. Oh happy day…

It is far from from my usual Monday post. In fact, it will be Wednesday by the time this gets uploaded. Been busy priming the various ceilings in our apartment now that the giant hole is my office (and the various other bumps and cracks around the place) has been repaired. Allah Akbar, which means God is great… a statement I will happily stand behind, now that I see a light at the end of the tunnel of my life-amidst-piles-and-tarps.

But in the meantime, here are some things that I have noticed in the vast procrastinatory abyss that is the internet.

Listen to (and watch, and be blown away by) my friend’s 13 year old daughter Ruby Karp give a TED talk about feminist activism and what it means to her.

I mentioned this on facebook already, but you guys should all read Rebecca Carroll’s conversation with Jezebel.com founding editor Anna Holmes on The Aesthete. Two very intelligent women telling it like it is… almost makes you want to actually pick up a book and read again.

Artisinal gummmies from Portland, OR. What’s not to love?

Oh lord, did I really just read about an app called Saga that helps you create a “lifelog” by automatically recording everything you do (got coffee at El Beit, took L train to Union Square, bought lettuce, etc) and then lets you share aforementioned (and thrilling) lifelog with your friends? Please say it ain’t so…

Oh and Dear God, while I have you on the horn, please let the near-future version of my daughter be like Amanda Soule’s son Ezra in Maine, whipping up concoctions for his family and dancing around the kitchen while he does it. It’s moments like these that make all the other bullshit worthwhile…

People have all sorts of things to say about Malcolm Gladwell. I say listen to the man himself and then decide if you’re going to be one of the 10 or 15 people on Earth who choose not to read his latest book…

And while we’re on the topic of professorial men of african descent, PBS has just aired the first of Henry Louis Gates’ six part series called The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross. It is a comprehensive look at the crazy, multilayered, intense and often inspirational history of African Americans. Required viewing, as far as I am concerned.

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