is underway. To catch anyone reading this up, Ender here. I'm giving WikiFray a makeover as making Blogger blogs over is one of the things I do these days. I'm not back except in the aforementioned capacity. This would be the place for any likes, dislikes and wishes.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
/r/bestofthefray/
Old Best of the Fray
My Blog List
-
-
Box of Rain (2013 Remaster); remembering Phil Lesh (1940-2024) - Sometime in the mid to late '70s -- why this sticks in my mind I don't know -- I saw a large piece of graffiti, simply "PHIL LESH," on the side of a build...3 weeks ago
-
Upon further review. - It's been 14 years now. I'm still living it, especially in February. At times I find myself going back even further-- how did I end up with his father?...3 years ago
-
Not This Way - Before Trump nominates someone, and the attacks made on her change my mind, I'll put myself on the record. Despite being pro-life, wanting to see *Roe v....4 years ago
-
-
The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Tokens - Everybody know Bitcoin nowadays. But the cryptocurrency world is far and wide. It is rapidly changing more and more industries. And Cannabis has its plac...6 years ago
-
Bold Prediction - The next few years will not make America great ("again"), not in terms of happiness, prosperity or security anyway. Not even for white guys. Don't forget...8 years ago
-
More Proof That Texas Murdered Willingham - Click here to read the story in the Washington Post.9 years ago
-
A New Wave of Science Blogging? - One can imagine science bloggers would be a (the) primary beneficiary in a landscape where Google ranks sites based on the correctness of factual informati...9 years ago
-
Why I Hate Christmas - Those who know me in real life, and many who know me only virtually, are aware that I am not a big fan of the Christmas holidays. My family typically refer...10 years ago
-
-
Blue - That wee bit of purple is gel ink. I actually used more than is showing. I think the scanner isn't picking up as well as it should.12 years ago
-
Anxieties of the Day - House fire, Lyme's disease, car accident, total professional failure.14 years ago
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Links
- *Best of the Fray
- Adventures in Time
- Age of Reason
- Ask Thy Goddess
- august philippic
- Bored of the Board
- BTC News
- Field of Science
- Fox: So You Think You Can Dance
- Freelance Genius
- Fringe TV
- Hillybilly Haiku
- I am not a god
- Isonomist
- Keifus Writes
- Lemmings. Cliff. Rocks. Splat.
- Man Bites Blog
- Maui's Catshrine
- mazinawmonster
- Mock Haiku
- MsZilla
- Nobody in Particular
- Notes from a Transitional Fossil
- Old Best of the Fray
- Parallax Error
- Red State Impressions
- Reflections in a Petri Dish
- Self-absorbed Boomer
- Shann Palmer
- Smoking Mirrors
- Tagruato
- TED BURKE, like it or not
- Tenacity Central
- the odd neighbor
- The Outer Sanctum
- The Poems of Ted Burke
- This Page Intentionally Left Blank
- Visible Origami
- Visible Stream of Consciousness
- Who is IOZ?
Blog Archive
-
►
2016
(1)
- ► November 2016 (1)
-
►
2012
(2)
- ► December 2012 (1)
- ► November 2012 (1)
-
►
2010
(20)
- ► November 2010 (1)
- ► October 2010 (4)
- ► September 2010 (5)
- ► August 2010 (7)
- ► March 2010 (1)
- ► February 2010 (1)
- ► January 2010 (1)
-
►
2009
(12)
- ► December 2009 (1)
- ► November 2009 (1)
- ► September 2009 (1)
- ► August 2009 (1)
- ► April 2009 (2)
- ► January 2009 (1)
-
▼
2008
(47)
- ► December 2008 (2)
- ► November 2008 (3)
- ► October 2008 (1)
- ► September 2008 (1)
- ► August 2008 (4)
-
▼
April 2008
(18)
- Mind If I Tag Along?
- Avenue (2)
- FROM THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD
- Avenue (1)
- Racism and the Radical Feminist
- Like, Go, Man
- Un-dressing in the City
- Sartorialism
- ROCK ME BABY, for Dawn Coyote
- What Do We Think About When We Think About Fashion?
- Bachelor Party
- Live Blogging the Clinton/Obama Debate
- Redesign
- Death is nothing to us
- Drive Time
- Cruel Shoes
- Book Club
- Canadian Woman Marries 12 Americans
- ► March 2008 (4)
- ► February 2008 (4)
- ► January 2008 (2)
-
►
2007
(400)
- ► December 2007 (13)
- ► November 2007 (21)
- ► October 2007 (10)
- ► September 2007 (15)
- ► August 2007 (36)
- ► April 2007 (42)
- ► March 2007 (54)
- ► February 2007 (56)
- ► January 2007 (53)
-
►
2006
(88)
- ► December 2006 (40)
- ► November 2006 (48)
Labels
- John McG (93)
- Dawn Coyote (78)
- august (74)
- switters (56)
- Ender (46)
- Keifus (35)
- Aaron (31)
- Wikifray Operations (26)
- TenaciousK (18)
- Elbo Ruum (14)
- MsZilla (13)
- Politics (10)
- kol (10)
- Southern Gal (9)
- Claude Scales (8)
- Michael Daunt (7)
- Archaeopteryx (6)
- Catnapping (4)
- Fiction (4)
- Gregor Samsa (4)
- Human Nature (4)
- SwingLowSweetDeej (4)
- bacon (4)
- skitch (4)
- topazz (4)
- Apple (3)
- Haibun (3)
- Haiku (3)
- History (3)
- alexa blue (3)
- fashion (3)
- sydbristow (3)
- wikifray bookclub (3)
- wikifray symposium (3)
- Clinton (2)
- Feminism (2)
- Geoff (2)
- Hillary Clinton (2)
- Lost (2)
- Philosophy (2)
- Pickton (2)
- Poetry (2)
- Slate (2)
- Splendid_IREny (2)
- justoffal (2)
- shoes (2)
- 2010 Olympics (1)
- 2016 Election (1)
- Australia (1)
- Conspiracy Theories (1)
- Haircut (1)
- Movies (1)
- Paul Miailovich (1)
- Racism (1)
- Robert Creeley (1)
- SYTYCD (1)
- Saletan (1)
- Social Justice (1)
- Television (1)
- Vancouver (1)
- baseball (1)
- illustration (1)
- poem (1)
- polygamy (1)
- tb (1)
22 comments:
Huh. I was looking for a b&w image sort of like that one. I can't decide on an image or a pattern in the banner.
I'll have a good look at all of this today/tomorrow and get back to you.
What are the limits of the feed - if we add more to it, will there be a perpetual problem with defunct blogs republishing automatically, or somesuch?
I like the picture, the profiles and the feed.
I like it better whenp top of the page just has the picture and the wikifray without the blue box pattern (or other patterns). I'm anti-pattern. No good reason for it.
I guess I am around, although I'm not acting like it. Will try to do more.
Hi august.
It's always good to see you around. I'm really glad to hear your wife is okay. I know it's not a serious risk, but it's a lot to deal with with a baby on the way. I just wanted to say that I'm thinking about you, though usually quiet about it.
Ender had another template, which he'll plug back in soon, I imagine.
Thoughts on the redesign:
With regard to the network feed: we could put in every blog belonging to a former BOTF frayster, but some of them have been defunct for a year. My thinking is the inactive ones won’t show up unless a new post appears. If we pare down the fray-blog feed to take out inactive blogs, we can still keep them in the link list.
I'm not sure how often blogger refreshes the feeds, but the BOTF post showing now is from yesterday afternoon, I think.
What about a second network feed for links to other (non-fray) blogs? John had that going with the google reader before. I don't want to clutter the page up, though.
FAVICON! Can we have one?
I'm working on the "about" page, and a fray post to invite people to put there blogs in the feed, join as contributors, etc.
I think I'll put some of my posts here that I had on my other blogs. I'll back-date them so they don't show up in the feed (hopefully).
Looks great. I had one more request, if you are up for it, which is to return the old "expand" post feature so that when I drone on about nothing only the very dedicated (Hi Keifus!) need to know.
Thanks Dawn, I appreciate it.
What's FAVICON?
Coupla things: 1. Labels. Since we're not using tabs, we could change the labels back to our full names (I don't mind doing it for everyone), but what about other category labels, for navigation? Do we care? Maybe those only matter to search engines.
2. Search function. I thought we had a search box. Perhaps with the template changes it got lost.
3. If no one has any objections, I'm going to add more blogs to the network feed. If it doesn't work well after that, I'll pare it down.
4. I'd like to link back to Wag the Slate.
5. Where should I put the "About" page?
It really does look great.
august: See up in the title bar? That grey square with the WF in it? THAT is a favicon.
Hey dawn, this seems like as good a thread as any to talk about content as well. One thing that I thought was working reasonably well were the wikifray symposia (we don't have to call it that). But you know, some theme that we could use to have a discussion. A lot of us seem to be interested in arts (and aesthetics in general), in inequality and its cures, and in books. So book club is an obvious choice.
I had another idea. Anybody else interested in chatting about the Sartorialist?
That picture in the blog you linked could easily be me and my boyfriend, circa 1988. It looked bad then, and it looks bad now. All that's missing is the leg-warmers. Plus, I had better hair.
Nobody's going to vote on Book Club. I think you just have to do it. Make it Little Big (if it's still your first choice). You read it, I'll read it (I'll get it in from the library in two days). Somebody else will read it. As long as the readers are active and interesting, it doesn't really matter how many there are.
I'll top post some Sartorialist related thing later today.
I'm currently reading No Country for Old Men. Very slowly. I'll poke around and see what appeals.
I need someone to do the next stage of the story I started (Whiteout, below). My tandem writing partner bailed.
Sorry for the departure, D.The meds have been adjusted, which means more meetings. Might I be reinstated? Perhaps take a vote.
Hi, Ted. Well, we all have our days. I admit that I was a little worried, so I'm glad to hear that things are returning to equilibrium, and that you'll come back. I'll send you an invite.
Thanks, Dawn. I saw the email and then it was bumped from the server and it is now lost in the ether. Could you send it again to tnburke@gmail.com? That way I'm sure to get it. Thanks again and sorry for the trouble.
Perhaps it's the beta widget stuff, but wikifray is now consistently crashing Safari. No biggie. I'm sure they'll fix it eventually. In the meantime, there's Firefox.
You know, august, I read this:
"Radical Hope" is about a Crow chief, Plenty Coups, who faces the situation in which his people can no longer act in the way they are used to acting. The seeming paradox:
Among the Crow warriors, are there any Crow warriors?"
and I thought of a book I read in a Can Lit class called A Dream Like Mine by M.T. Kelly, which won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1987.
It's one of those books that stays with you. I still think about it often, a decade after reading it, because it challenged my assumptions in much the way that The Echo Maker did, only Kelly did it better and with admirable brevity (157 pgs). Like The Echo Maker, the book has an
unreliable narrator with whom the reader will identify, and toward whom the reader's sympathies will wither as the novel progresses. The fact that the reader shares many of the narrator's (bigoted) assumptions is a source of some discomfort by the end of the novel.
I think we should read it, but I can only find 3 copies on Amazon, all used. It seems more easily acquired in Canada, but I recall that Chapters mislead me about The Mystery Guest, and I don't really trust them. Of course, there's always the library.
On second thought, I'm misremembering about the narrator's bigotry and the ease with which the reader identifies. Are there several narrators? It's fuzzy.
The complexities of the cultural interactions and tensions as played out by the three or four main characters are difficult to capture. I've never read a good review of that book, because it defies easy analysis.
Dedicated post-comber? I don't know if that's an impression I want to cultivate.
Site looks really nice. As far as favicons go, it's too bad that there's no T in teh middle of "Wikifray," but then the name's always been sort of an awkward point.
Plenty Coup sounds like the name of a bond girl.
What about adding a widget with the category labels?
I am astounded by the amount of work you are putting in.
Hi Dawn,
Dream Like Mine is available in my library -- I could get it as early as Tuesday.
I've been thinking of other contexts where that kind of paradox might apply. The marriage of a friend of mine is falling apart, and I wonder if he doesn't feel that he is a husband who isn't a husband (a person in the legal category of "husband" who is not sure how to enact that role). It's amazing how many pieces of everyday experience can cease to make sense (although the tricky part is that of course people are making things make some kind of sense even when they don't). Another example -- the experiences of the people of Hiroshima prior to 1945 gave them no tools to understand what happened to them in the A-Bomb blast. And yet, they of course had nothing but prior experience to use when reacting to the bomb.
I'm often incoherent. I feel like the fray is for me a constant stream of rough drafts for something I'm not writing
I can pick up the book tomorrow. When shall we discuss it? Next Sunday, or maybe two weeks from now?
Humans seem predisposed to identify with their roles and it seems to bring us no small degree of psychological distress when we're prematurely discharged from them (and even when we discharge ourselves). I had a hard time adjusting after I separated from my husband. In our 12 years together, I'd become a wife. It was hard to figure out how to be after that.
Like post-bomb Hiroshima residents, or post-Abu Ghraib/Guantanamo Americans, external factors force us to adapt and redefine ourselves. In the latter case, I think Americans have to some extent redefined themselves as torturers, as evidenced by the prevalence of films and porn that trend that way. It's remarkable to note the extent to which the commission of human rights abuses can penetrate the collective conscience of the nation that is "responsible" for them, trickling through national and individual identity in a variety of ways.
Speaking of bombs - there was a lightning strike just outside the living room window last evening. It was exactly like a camera flash at close range. The thunder shook the house. I thought for a moment it was a bomb. My internet connection hasn't worked since. I'm poaching off a neighbour's wireless at the moment, but it's spotty.
I'm tangential. Writing here or on the fray is somewhat like dreaming. I often wonder if I should have set the alarm, but as soon as the thought occurs to me, I'm off after some white rabbit or other.
I got Dream Like Mine. Will read as soon as I finish Kafka At the Shore, which is genius. I'm on p. 100 and I think it's one of the most brilliant things I've ever read.
august, I have the book, too. And a new ISP, too, so my internet access is restored.
Post a Comment