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09.02.2011 Assorted Lectures
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A ten-week temporary workspace for the exploration of generative practices in contemporary experimental writing.  The goal of the space is two-fold: 1. To read, discuss and debate contemporary approaches to experimental writing. 2. To produce new work in innovative ways that engage with contemporary strategies of appropriation, erasure, recycling, remixing, framing, stealing, copying, pasting, recovery, documentation, [...]

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The Human Light Show

04.24.2011 Milestones
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This weekend about a million people decided to go to the Human Light show at the park. The glow-stick puppet show probably wasn’t worth the hour it took to park and the hour it took to get out of the parking lot. But. I did drink a bottle of wine by myself. So there’s that.

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Artist Talk – Vija Celmins at the Menil

11.29.2010 Assorted Lectures
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I thoroughly enjoyed Vija Celmin’s artist talk at the Menil last Friday. Celmins was joined by Menil curators Franklin Sirmans and Michelle White to lead a discussion about the latest exhibit at the Menil: Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-66. I would have wanted to write about it earlier, while it was still fresh on [...]

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2010 Cinema Arts Film Festival

11.15.2010 Film Thoughts
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I want to shout out to whoever curated the 2010 Cinema Arts Film Festival in Houston this year. While I couldn’t attend as many events as I wanted to, there was plenty to see and nothing sucked (except for Black Swan – see below). But on the whole, I saw some great movies and heard [...]

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Renaissance Fair

11.10.2010 Milestones
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Me and some peeps went Cur-raze-ie at the Houston Renaissance Fair last weekend. Wish I had some pictures of the longest car ride ever with all of us crammed into Tim’s Honda. You’re also not seeing me actually catapulting in a wedgie-inducing diaper/holster.

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Aniden Pumpkin Carving Day!

10.29.2010 Milestones
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One of the reasons I moved back to Houston is to be with creative people. This year’s pumpkin carving at Aniden was the best team building day yet!

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Countdown to pumpkin carving

10.26.2010 Milestones
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Pumpkin Carving day at Aniden. T minus 3 days.

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Tim & Rachna’s Birthday/Graduation Beer-B-Q

10.23.2010 Milestones
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Went with Helen and Mark to the longest drunkest BBQ ever. Beer chicken, beer pong, beer everything. I don’t have pictures of the dancing that happened into the wee hours.

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Ryan’s Baby Day

10.22.2010 Milestones
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I don’t know why there’s a flurry of babies happening, but they’re popping out everywhere. I can’t get any work done for all the babies blasting off. Here’s pictures of Ryan’s baby shower at Aniden Interactive.

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“The Most Dangerous Place to Practice Journalism” a lecture by Alfredo Corchado

10.20.2010 Assorted Lectures
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“Explain to us what you want from us, so we know what to abide by. You are at this time the de facto authorities in this city because the legal authorities have not been able to stop our colleagues from falling.” Editorial in El Diario de Juárez published in Sept. 2010 Helen, Mark and I [...]

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