has a new job as chauffer for the Mt. Airy Chronicle's newest editorial intern. See her first article http://tinyurl.com/lvs9oo # had my first Norristown Zep sandwiche today and my first milkshake in a year # Continue reading
is it conceivable that state politics in NY is even screwier than it is in PA? # It's 2009 and black kids are ejected from a pool in our region because of skin color! A response is being planned.http://tinyurl.com/lmog59 Continue reading
is striking the Wellfleet set. # Abba is still an incredible restaurant. # Twitter:Blog Post:Mishna FaceBook:Comments:Gemara When will the first great redacted book in a 1000 years be published. Or did I miss it? # Twitter:Facebook; Blog Post:Comments, Mishnah:Gemorrah. When will the first good book in a thousand years be one that has been redacted? Continue reading
There comes a day, in every trip to the Cape, when you have to decide whether to sweep all the sand you’ve brought into the house. Sweeping is how we reaffirm our committment to civilization. It generally happens on Thursday. Continue reading
is upgrading windows 7 beta 2 to rc 1 so that I'll have a working computer when I get back from vacation. Ugh! # is getting ready to go on vacation, which means working like crazy Continue reading
I love to hear Orrin Evans. His second set at Chris' was splendid. Nice to see Craig Handy and Robin Eubanks, too # Continue reading
My new Facebook address is /marcstier. And if the tools I just set up work, what I’m currently writing in Microsoft Word will post to my blog Marc Stier at Large (http://blog.stier.net), the blog will then automatically create a tweet which will then automatically update my Facebook status. Or I’ll create a cosmic conflagration. It’s one or the other. Here goes. Continue reading
Do we daydream anymore? I’ve been wondering about that in the last few days after a conversation with a close friend in which we mutually confessed our penchant for daydreaming. My fear is that daydreaming is a lost art. But perhaps that is just a solipsistic point of view—just because we generally don’t see other people daydreaming, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. I want to write here about why daydreaming is so important to me, why I fear it may be a phenomena in decline and why my daughter gives me some hope for the future. Continue reading
FINALLY I seem to be getting over a truly nasty virus that attacks soul as well as body This has been an extraordinarily unpleasant experience. I had a fairly normal cold for a few days starting last Friday and kept working through it as I always do while coughing and hacking away. Then on Monday, I started feeling this incredible and unremitting fatigue. It particularly attacked my hands and arms. I couldn’t lift my arms above my shoulders without feeling exhausted. And my arms and hands would get tired after two minutes of typing, keeping me my favorite thing to do with my clothes on, writing. Continue reading
I had some technical problems with this blog site when I moved it to a new server earlier in the year which caused the site to crash. All my old posts were lost. I’ve been blogging at Young Philly Politics, which is a great on-line community. But I’ve been hoping to restart this blog, partly as a way of helping people find my old posts that appeared there and here and partly because I want a place to post longer, more ruminative pieces, that are not really approprite for YPP. So now that I’ve had some time to fix the technical problems, I’m going to be blogging here again. Some posts, but not all, will appear at YPP, too. And I’m going to gradually repost what I think of as the best of my old posts here, leaving out the topical ones about this meeting or that rally. It’s going to take… Continue reading