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Mixing metaphors, I’d like to say that you can get a Category 5 Mongolia experience for no interest no money down. Anyway, for those of you who do not receive the imminent email, here’s the deal:

1. I’m leaving very very soon (staging starts on May 31 ironically in Atlanta)
2. There is a contest!
3. There is a party!

Concerning #2 – Mongoliathon 2007 and contest:
Learn a lot about Mongolia this week and coincidentally help Charlene! Pick a topic and post or come to the Farewell/Mongolia or Bust Party ready with a spiel. There will be a special (tbd) prize from Mongolia for the most entertaining (as determined by Charlene) entry. The rest of you may get party favors later. Deadline is a week from today (5/28)

Mongoliathon 2007 topics could be:
Location and Geography
Climate and seasons
Plant and animal life
Religion
Women
Education
Cultural life
History
Diet/Food
Politics
Housing
Clothing
Holidays
Crafts
Sports

Concerning #3 – Mongoliathon 2007 and party:
This Thursday 6-8pm at Manuel’s Tavern in Atlanta in Poncey-Highlands.

If you’re not in Atlanta, this is the post where you can comment to add your submission.
If you need more than plain text feel free to email it to Charlene or submit a link and I’ll figure something out.

Tags: mongolia, party, travel

Smashing Pumpkins to begin touring again – no James Iha though.

Also, ate cheese curds twice today, as well as Ethiopian food and grill-your-own steak place last night.  Then I spilled a whole cooler of melted ice on my crotch in the car.

Tags: praxis

or so. Trip craziness to tomo’s grad, grand tour of madison and chicago, and mystery surprise in columbus. Also seeing other Sharlene and Barb and what-not. Made a map to explain trip, but got tired partway through – new job is kicking my ass, but now caught up mostly – if funders don’t yell at me.

Map link is here.

Should sleep, for tomorrow is 12-hour driving as you’ll see on the map.

Tags: travel

…and this is in a verifiable publication used for the public record: the Provo, Utah-based Daily Herald.  One of the more choice excerpts:

“illegal immigrants should not be allowed because ‘they are not going to become Republicans and stop flying the flag upside down. … If they want to be Americans, they should learn to speak English and fly their flag like we do.’”

Read on at the link above to get a good bit of insight on our political process.  The paper’s office is on Freedom Blvd, btw.

Tags: currents, words

oh my.

So, yesterday was pretty fun, as I rode to Georgia Tech from our house for the first time (about 4 1/2 miles via the coffeeshop). There was this thingy from the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture’s Digital Media…department? at Bonnie’s school and I went to it and saw people we’ve had drinks with before (Judy’s friends Manu and Will) and talked about collaborative protest quilts with mandala-like qualities. What do you think about a digital media project where you can upload sound clips or video clips or pictures that would then reassemble randomly with all other contributed content to create a continuous video/flash stream? And in order to get around liability things, as things were assembled and played it the content would be destroyed, a la Philip K Dick’s idea of the biographical video that relatives could watch after the passing.

Anyway. They had this kiosk set up where you could do onsite registration and it would immediately print a label to affix on your badge. I was delirious by the end what with all the technology flying about and reconditioned my badge at the now-unsupervised kiosk despite Bonnie’s threats. Coincidentally, using “a” as your university and “student” as your occupation was very convenient. I am very pleased with the following:

Then, that evening, as I was conferring with RR, we heard 5 distinct gunshots near our house. The dog went crazy and Heather continued to sit on the couch and said it was prolly a car backfiring. About 2 min later we hear the first sirens and see the blue lights reflecting on our white painted porch railing. Indeed there was a shooting – and actually 2 that night about 5 blocks away for each! So we’re not sure if it was this or this that was happening at that moment.

Tags: librarians, praxis