Aargh. A coughing fit around midnight sent Izzy off on a couple of rounds of vomiting what little dinner she had. And she ended up literally coughing for almost another three hours. But I had some free time over the week to look around, so hopefully you folks didn't miss Jessica Hagedorn / Pico Iyer / Monique Truong / Chang-rae Lee / Ved Mehta / and many others writing about home. But I have more music links this time: a non-interview with John Zorn, Skip Heller on Mickey Spillane and John Zorn turning 50, Ron Silliman's stacks of CDs (he listens to Radiohead!), an old article written by Margaret Leng Tan remembering John Cage, and an analysis of Merzbow's sound waves. And there's lots of blogger action as well: there's blog plagiarism, Michelle Bautista will be showing up on some reality dating show (no, she's not the one on the date), Kieran Healy has some conference advice ("Attending an academic conference is like being a teenager again."), and La Filipina fucks some shit up. What else? Some married-couple humor. My favorite R. Crumb Weirdo cover, via MetaFilter. And I'm convinced that the world will now collapse into some imploding black hole if, say, the over-networked Sofia Coppola ever made a film out of a book by the over-networked Dave Eggers. It just might happen. (No, really: we in SF are tired of Dave and Vendela and Michael and Heidi too.)
Hmm.. I've heard a lot about this whole plagiarism hoopla and I must say it's quite pathetic of her to go around doing so. I mean, stealing a thesis, or part of it, I can *ahem* partly understand -- but memories? As I said, how pathetic.
And I do remember coming across her blog a few months ago and thinking that she had really insightful posts.
Guess it wasn't her, after all.
Posted by: amanda on September 8, 2003 02:37 AMIt is indeed really bizarre -- I did like Mark's comments, though, on "open source lives."
Posted by: the wily filipino on September 8, 2003 12:01 PM