Janet Hegman Shier
says:

former students of mine in NYC: Grant Wilfley Casting is holding an open call for background performers for SEX AND THE CITY 2. Seeking SAG and NON SAG to play: Fashion Models, Celebrity types, Upscale socialites, Urban Club goers, Gays and Lesbians, International types (Middle Eastern, Arabic, Asian, European, British), Professional Soccer Players. Open Call: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18

chain lozenging

I'm currently addicted to these. Do any of you guys have a thing like this (that's not drugs or alcohol). Jane, how you doing with the coca-cola?

Chicago Trip

While I'm sitting here waiting to leave I figured I'd post some pictures from my Chicago trip.

NoCal Vacation

I'm going to Northern California on Thursday for my grandma's 90th birthday party, then to my uncle's cabin, then to visit Brian. Does anyone know things in San Fran/Berkeley/Modesto that I should do? Are there any people out there I should look up? I only know of a few people out there: a guy I met travelling in Spain, a former intern, and Chieko.

Wooden Shjips - Dance, California

Who's dating Ernest Hemingway?

Can someone explain this site to me?

http://www.celebsquotes.com/e/ernest-hemingway/

AWK on Red Eye

I found Yuk* on Facebook along with a bunch of other coop people. Vailies befriend her, so you can get status updates like this delivered to you directly:

YM: “enough drinking with a mentor till 4am...”

YM: “had enough drinking and karaoke till 5 am...”

YM: “sick up playing with numbers with lots of guesses...”

YM: “I am thinking about going to a beach just to have minds relax after a hell week...”

YM: “is changing her computer's cursor to a bear”

YM: “is in endless cleaning process”

YM: “had too much business drinking nights this week. so happy its a weekend now.”

In all fairness, she’s been in Japan for a while, so her English just keeps getting worse.

Hegel vs Dewey

When I saw this abstract I thought it reflected the specialties of some swimclubbers, combined into one article.

Title: The Ubiquitous Hierarchy: An Army to Overcome the Threat of a Mob.
Authors: Olson, Hope A.
Source: Library Trends; Winter2004, Vol. 52 Issue 3, p604-616, 13p

Abstract:
This article explores the connections between Melvil Dewey and Hegelianism and Charles Cutter and the Scottish Common Sense philosophers. It traces the practice of hierarchy from these philosophical influences to Dewey and Cutter and their legacy to today's Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings. The ubiquity of hierarchy is linked to Dewey's and Cutter's metaphor of organizing the mob of information into an orderly army using the tool of logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frank McCourt, RIP

To share any memories, for New Yorkers.

Two Worlds

But what was he after? What did he want? What did he love and what did he hate? He did not know. There was something he knew and something he felt; something the world gave him and something he himself had; something spread out in front of him and something spread out in back; and never in all his life, with this black skin of his, had the two worlds, thought and feeling, will and mind, aspiration and satisfaction, been together; never had he felt a sense of wholeness.

Michigan Connection

Richard Loeb, who attempted the "perfect crime" with his lover Nathan Leopold, Jr., attended the University of Michigan. His family also owned property in Charlevoix.

Oh, Berlin!

German brothel offers cyclists discount
via The Guardian World News by Leo Hickman on 7/14/09

Maison d'Envie in Berlin rewards 'green commitment' with a discount, but what else would encourage you to ride a bike?

The Germans have always been one step ahead of the rest of us when it comes to the environment. They are European champions when it comes to wind power, recycling rates and installing combined heat and power boilers. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is a former environment minister.

So it should come as no surprise to learn that a German businessman has pushed the concept of green rebates to the next logical level: Thomas Goetz, owner of a Berlin brothel called Maison d'Envie, is currently offering a discount to any customer who arrives by bicycle or public transport.

"The recession has hit our industry hard," Goetz told Reuters. "Obviously we hope that the discount will attract more people. It's good for business, it's good for the environment – and it's good for the girls."

Any punter who arrives by bike – the puns readily spring to mind with this story – or who can prove they've travelled by public transport qualifies for the discount (they must present a valid ticket and a map of Berlin's public transport network upon arrival). The room hire for a 45-minute "session" is normally €70 (£60), but cyclists qualify for a €5 "eco" discount. Customers with, er, less time on their hands can opt for the 15-minute session which normally costs €30, but with that eco discount it drops down to €25. (For unexplained reasons, though, no eco discount is available for a 60-minute session. The mind boggles.)

In the name of research, I had a quick look around the brothel's website to verify that the offer really does exist, and, yes, there it is in black and white. "The Maison d'Envie offers one major advantage over other establishments: it is perfectly accessible by public transport. Both S-and U-Bahn stations are within walking distance and well-maintained bicycle paths also allow for a more environmentally friendly journey. And because we want to reward your green commitment, we have – and it's unique in Berlin – an environmental discount." It's the sort of statement you might expect to hear from your local council, not an establishment – very much legal in Germany – that offers the services of "nice, motivated models" in a "very pleasant, almost family atmosphere".

It seems to be working, though, as Goetz says the offer is attracting three to five new customers every day, adding that the incentive has helped to reduce traffic and parking congestion in the local area.

So, what would it take to get you going by bike more often? What other innovative incentives could help boost the number of people cycling?

QUESTION

Would people be interested in:

-Coming to New York for New Years
-Or chipping in to rent a cabin/lodge somewhere for New Years

Please respond

HIPSTER

A HIPSTER WOULD AVOID AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO AVOID DOING ANYTHING THAT WOULD GET HIM OR HER IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW.

A Model that looks like someone

Found in a NYTimes article:

6 Words + Postage

Your imaginations please! Just a friendly post in the department of shameless self-promotion. Check out a new 'flog' project a friend of mine and I have started. Kind of an experiment in storytelling. Writers, artists, liars...all welcome here.

Electric Six - Randy's Hot Tonight

I like this more for the song, but the video is fun, too.

Michigan Connection

Herman Mudgett (a.k.a. Dr. H.H. Holmes), serial killer, attended the University of Michigan's medical school (noted at the time for its emphasis on dissection).

It's been so long. I've been in Ishpeming since January. The humiliation! Now I plan to go to D.C. and try my luck there.

Anyway, I've created a Flickr account, which links to a website that I'm creating. The website will be a self-promotion tool, a hybrid between the website of a graduate student faced with the realities of the academic job market and a LinkedIn account. My hope is that something like this will help me account for some of the past few years, if only in pictures. After all, who goes from a good graduate school to the Sandwich Method in Istanbul?

Here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neumedlyn/sets/

Let me know what you think or if there's anything I should change. I tried to not over-personalize it, so there aren't very many shots of people. Usually, these types of things just make me go to the bathroom, which is why I don't do them (or even post on the blog very often). Still, I feel like I need to make a personal connection with potential employers. I need to do something.

I was thinking of adding pics from the UP trip to Facebook. Should I? Good times.

Cut Off My Hips(ters)

Hipsters are people at the cutting edge of what is hip. They are terrifically ironic about it, so definitions take on a postmodern whirligig and end up betraying their makers. Am I wrong?

This video is, to me, the epitome of the current hip regime. We have indie rock, always present, but a lot of 80s dance coutoure, disco tropes in the music. A slow rhythm and a Michael Jackson werewolf. Talk about timing, today couldn't be a better day to release a video of a Michael Jackson werewolf, since today's the memorial for the genius also regarded as a freak. I applaud these marketers.

Sentimentality usually is not hip but I do have some sentimentality for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Most likely, this as well is a manufactured good. But the reason why I write here is because I don't feel like I'm a part of this. Four days into my 27th year alive and I no longer feel hip. I could be a dad by now. However, I am likely hipper than I could ever have dreamed in my teens.

Letters To A Young Poet

Enrique Bunbury y Andrés Calamaro - Confesión

Abe & Ms. Florida

The Limitations of Life

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure.

R.I.P. Karl Malden