January 2012
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HAPPY NEW YEAR / Julio Cortazar. Mira, no pido mucho, solamente tu mano, tenerla como un sapito que duerme así contento. Necesito esa puerta que me dabas para entrar a tu mundo, ese trocito de azúcar verde, de redondo alegre. ¿No me prestás tu mano en esta noche de fìn de año de lechuzas roncas? No puedes, por razones técnicas. Entonces la tramo en el aire, urdiendo cada dedo, el durazno sedoso de...
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Music At Midnight: The Preservation — Modern...
Chile Education Minister Felipe Bulnes resigns →
From the minister: “Hay que cambiar una cara que estuvo marcada por el conflicto por una cara que marque el futuro de la educación.”
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I was looking through laws currently winding their way through the Massachusetts legislature the other day, and I came across H.1169, and though the seeming majority of public sphere reaction seems to be stuff like this —
It should have noted that state Representatives Byron Rushing and Marty Walz are following Henry Lee’s example in protecting public parks from shadows.
— I...
MeDyKrena: Pse? →
medykrena:
Why have I begun this blog?
None of you reading this, except perhaps one or two, will know my actual name and who I am, and so I’m comfortable sharing this information. When I was 8, living in a new house in Xhafzotaj (where I’m from, just outside Durrës), we got a knock on our door from one of…
An interesting blog out of regarding Albania that started following me the other...
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“According to an English-language summary of the general’s comments published by...”
– It’s official. General Kato is insane.
via: “Egyptian Military Adviser Calls Attack on Woman Justified.”
And evanfleischer.com is going to be restored! Oh, the small victories. Update: 7:37PM: And we’re back!
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Boehner Caves. →
Also: while waiting to fix the domain name problem, here are the “proper” links for the “Bio,” “Writing,” and “Comedy” portions of my site.
Though I’m doing plenty of stuff I’m not telling you all about — a reminder: if you’re hiring, I’m looking.
If I can’t get evanfleischer.com back, what should I do instead? evanfleischer.me? efleischer.com?
And while I try and figure out what happened with my domain name, we’re back to dot tumblr dot com. Web 2.0! Hooray!
My friend has a piece up at/in Harper’s. Check it out.
A few months before last February’s citywide elections, Hal Baskin’s phone started ringing. And ringing. Most of the callers were candidates for Chicago City Council, seeking the kind of help Baskin was uniquely qualified to provide. Baskin isn’t a slick campaign strategist. He’s a former gang leader and, for several decades, a community activist who now operates a neighborhood center that aims...
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“Protesters ‘Deserve to Be Thrown Into Hitler’s Ovens,’ Egyptian Military Adviser...”
– Holy shit. The title on the NYTimes Lede Blog.
imwithkanye:
evanfleischer:
After keeping these to myself for a while, I think I’m going to follow ProducerMatthew’s lead and make these public for anyone who might want them: 1. Twitter list of AJE journos. 2. Twitter list of Reuters journos. 3. Twitter list of US journos. 4. Twitter list of UK journos. (The last two need some work, but they’re on their way.)
I’ll share a couple of my...
After keeping these to myself for a while, I think I’m going to follow ProducerMatthew’s lead and make these public for anyone who might want them: 1. Twitter list of AJE journos. 2. Twitter list of Reuters journos. 3. Twitter list of US journos. 4. Twitter list of UK journos. (The last two need some work, but they’re on their way.)
One of my editors has a radio program on KUAF. Do please check it out.
London Sound Survey. →
