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Vale Elizabeth Taylor

I feel that we have gone to such great lengths to memorialize Elizabeth Taylor The Aids Activist and Serious Actor that we are in danger of forgetting the legacy of Elizabeth Taylor In A Slip In Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Does that make me a bad person?

Note to self: Christian Alan Anderson

Somehow I’ve become embroiled in Taiwan-as-Austronesia. Here is someone who has written about this: “Christian Alan Anderson”:http://omnivoyage.org/about_chris.htm Includes publications. Note to self, note to self, note to self.

Melancholic Freedom

“Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics”:http://www.amazon.com/Melancholic-Freedom-Agency-Spirit-Politics/dp/0195319826/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214896943&sr=8-2 by “David Kyuman Kim”:http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/kim.html looks like a great book. That said, I do feel the blurb from Cornell West (his dissertation supervisor) is a bit excessive: David Kyuman Kim is the leading philosopher of religion and culture of his generation. The breadth of his synthetic imagination, the [...]

Lawrence Hammar has a Website

And its called “Methods Man.com”:http://methodsman.com/ — some usefuls stuff on qualitative research and his own experiences. Still… it makes me wonder if he knows about “the other guy”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_Man.

Another games studies type

“Celia Pearce”:http://cpandfriends.com/

Anthropologist of the day

“Eva Illouz”:http://sociology.huji.ac.il/illouz.html — someone else for me to read.