there there
July 14, 2009
What is the connection between the awesome & cranky doyenne of the avant-garde,
Gertrude Stein,
and ACLU v. Reno, the very first Supreme Court case that dealt with cyberspace law issues?
The “Reno” in ACLU v. Reno stands for Reno Nevada. No, just kidding. It stands for the (then) Attorney General of the United States of America:
Janet Reno. Ms. Reno, if you’re nasty!
So can you guess the connection between Gertrude Stein and the Supreme Court case? No? Stumped? Hint: It has to do with Gertrude Stein’s famous ex-pat impression of the fair city of Oakland, California, her childhood hood …
After spending years and years in Paris, Ms. Stein made a journey back to Oakland and found that all the concrete landmarks of her past, including the house where she had grown up, had long since disappeared from the landscape of the city. So she made a remark, destined to become (in)famous, that the trouble with Oakland was that:
It came across as a dis but ultimately was just an innocent emotional response upon realizing that home was no longer home. Fast forward to the case, with the court facing the challenge of applying the brick-and-mortar world’s zoning laws to the amorphous cyberspace, and Justice Stevens (I think he’s the one who said it) channeled Stein and observed that when it comes to the Internet, “there is no there there” or conversely that the “there” is everywhere.
And there you have it. No pun intended.
fun with hair
July 1, 2009
the other day
June 12, 2009
& tomorrow i will tell the tale of the High Line
I’m sure to be charmed by the High Line but East River: you’ll always be my BRF
NYPL LIVE! How Proust Can Change Your Life
June 9, 2009
Link to References:
NYPL LIVE
Alain De Botton/NYPL
The Pleasures and Sorrows Of Work – By Alain De Botton
Alain De Botton’s web site
Paul Hauldengraber
NYTM – Tshirt Contest (No, not that kind)
June 8, 2009
So designed this tshirt for the New York Tech MeetUp:
MoCCA 09 – A Personal Retrospective
June 7, 2009
The choice is: live the moment or capture it. I wanted to just experience the festival but I’m really glad that I took a few pix too.
Highlights:
yeah – now wish had taken more pictures!
Links/References:
Anna Lev Moriarty: Blog (check it out!)
Sam Marlow: Blog
commencer – pardon my French
June 6, 2009
I get to exhibit at MoCCA Festival 09 - selling and bartering my comic book: Bug and Mulch – A Contemporary Tale of Woe
Which has this blog’s URL printed on the cover and back.
Like so:
Catalyst for finally actually starting this blog.
And so, it begins. Another blog. Just what the interwebs needed.
