Wunderkammer

vox transferus

2006-07-14T21:59:36Z

http://matokie.vox.com

Me and Vox, we're making it official. From now on you can find my blogging over there. No more of this cross-posting silliness. I apologize to those offended by the prospect of having to click over to another page, but I like living the dangerous life.

I'll still be reading and commenting on LJ with obsessive regularity, because dude you guys rule. My Vox blog has an RSS feed if you'd prefer to use that, and it's syndicated on LJ here. I have plenty of invites if you'd like one.

So this isn't goodbye to LJ really. You can just find me on the other side of the meadow.

veritatem @ 2006-07-14T14:37:00

2006-07-14T21:37:55Z

big brother knows best

veritatem @ 2006-07-14T10:35:00

2006-07-14T17:35:51Z

terpsichorean

veritatem @ 2006-07-13T08:31:00

2006-07-13T15:31:49Z

pulchritude

veritatem @ 2006-07-12T18:32:00

2006-07-13T01:32:44Z

take a road off, arnie

veritatem @ 2006-07-12T18:20:00

2006-07-13T01:20:58Z

what's up, dock?

veritatem @ 2006-07-11T21:52:00

2006-07-12T04:54:00Z

hap, hap, hooray!

PS I have a couple Vox invites left if anyone would like one or yours expired or whatever. Just ask!

veritatem @ 2006-07-10T09:00:00

2006-07-10T15:58:30Z

proceleusmatic

veritatem @ 2006-07-07T09:08:00

2006-07-07T16:09:12Z

balsamic

veritatem @ 2006-07-07T08:49:00

2006-07-07T15:49:59Z

show 13

veritatem @ 2006-07-06T09:02:00

2006-07-06T16:00:59Z

red hot chili peppers, portman road, ipswich

veritatem @ 2006-07-06T08:46:00

2006-07-06T15:44:35Z

scrabble

veritatem @ 2006-07-05T09:11:00

2006-07-05T16:12:32Z

modigliani and his models

veritatem @ 2006-07-05T09:07:00

2006-07-05T16:08:08Z

francis bacon: triptychs

veritatem @ 2006-07-01T07:27:00

2006-07-01T14:27:30Z

my july shows

veritatem @ 2006-06-30T19:53:00

2006-07-01T02:54:14Z

a lawn time coming

veritatem @ 2006-06-30T19:43:00

2006-07-01T02:43:24Z

a bitter drill

veritatem @ 2006-06-30T08:34:00

2006-06-30T15:35:16Z

procellous

veritatem @ 2006-06-30T08:23:00

2006-06-30T15:23:21Z

show 12

veritatem @ 2006-06-29T17:07:00

2006-06-30T00:08:03Z

club afoot

plashy

2006-06-29T17:12:28Z

I want to be Judy Davis when I grow up.

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stutefish landed me a Vox invite, so I'm planning to move my blogging life over there soon after I figure out the bells and whistles. Don't worry, I'll leave an appropriately apocalyptic message on LJ when the time comes. I kinda want to wait until it's open to everyone who wants to join, which doesn't happen until fall it sounds like. In the meantime, find my placeholder at http://matokie.vox.com/

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Hey I'm DJing tonight!
Matokie
1-3:30am PST, Friday June 30
KALX Berkeley 90.7fm
I've got some delicious stuff lined up. Any requests?

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Mind the gap:
Learning about the world through the fun of statistics: human development trends by country. All this and more from Gapminder. It's made by Swedes, so it has to be good.

port reform

2006-06-29T01:28:15Z

The Port of Los Angeles (shown) and Port of Long Beach are heavy polluters. Their new policies will affect Oakland's port, too. Associated Press photo, 2005, by Chris Carlson

from Grist:
The peerlessly polluting ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., will propose far-reaching environmental policies today. "What we're doing right now is a no-growth, job-losing, cancer-causing plan, and we're just not going to do that anymore," said David Freeman, chair of the L.A. Harbor Commission. What they aim to do instead is require all ships calling at the two large ports to switch to low-sulfur fuel, use other emission-reducing technologies, and plug in to local electrical power at docks instead of idling. Trains and trucks at the ports would also have to clean up their acts. The policies, says Freeman, would reduce diesel emissions at the ports by as much as 85 percent in a decade or less, even as trade traffic with Asia increases. Shippers, while not opposed to the regulations in theory, hope for flexible timetables. Says Julie Masters of the Natural Resources Defense Council, "We're on the precipice of a revolution."

source:
San Francisco Chronicle

aphotic

2006-06-28T17:04:58Z

"Former publisher and editor of The Nation, Victor Navasky has written a candid chronicle of his life of investigating, writing, reporting, and opining. A Matter of Opinion tells of his student days at Swathmore College, in Alaska as an Army recruit (writing for the Base’s paper), his education at Yale Law School (where he began the opinion paper Monocle), his work for The New York Times as a freelancer, and of course his time at The Nation where he made it one of the most, if not the most important political and news publication in America."
It would have been cool to hear Navasky read at Black Oak last night and all, but I had some important stick-wavin' practice to do.

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Propaganda posters remixed:
To rebut the old-timey anti-freedom posters in this space yesterday, Project for The Old American Century offers some pro-freedom versions. Take that, Michelle Malkin!

standpatism

2006-06-27T15:20:11Z

"In the tradition of Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie comes Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, a debut novelist who tells an exuberant and tender story of love, loss, sex, karma, and colonialism set in 1920's India. Written with an exhilarating verve for language that conveys the intensity, color, and pungency of the sub-continent, The Last Song of Dusk is an original first novel by a writer of enormous talent."
Shangvi charmed the socks off the audience at the Booksmith last night, myself included, whether he was exhorting us to devour Michael Ondaatje and Toni Morrison or reading a sex scene so spicy I was afraid to breathe for the duration.

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Michelle Malkin's old-timey "war efforts":
The New York Times' recent reporting has spurred right-wing bloggers to create posters that encourage silencing the "treasonous" media.

wireless festival, hyde park, london

2006-06-26T16:11:22Z

KT Tunstall on stage at Wireless. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

from the Guardian:
Heaven knows what James Blunt is doing closing Saturday night at Wireless, when he could have been at Royal Ascot in a top hat, representing the Hillier-Blount clan. Eighteen months of intensive touring may have made him a household name, but it hasn't made him a rock star. A man can grow stubble, distress his jeans and single-barrel his name, but that doesn't address the fundamental problem: Blunt walks through his set like someone who's trying to build a house without knowing anything about architecture.
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1806144,00.html