{"id":675,"date":"2007-05-22T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-12-09T00:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:38:56","slug":"operation-cheesecake-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2007\/05\/22\/operation-cheesecake-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Cheesecake? Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, there is a shorter-than-expected diary here because I am f**king p***ed &#8230; my fault? I don&#8217;t know. I blame Firefox, I blame MySpace &#8230; I blame somebody else &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The blog writing page randomly reload and WIPED OUT MY F**KING entry.<\/p>\n<p>Hrm, thank you. I feel better now.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to write about how good my cheesecake, with its oatmeal and brown sugar crust was. About how I did laundry and heard some great code switching from the two Latinas doing their laundry. About how I returned four movies to Four Star before going to Fair Trade, where I met Darrin (who&#8217;s finished with his diss and going to London this weekend, where he&#8217;ll stay with Maike from our department) and Julia (who&#8217;s engaged now to John, who graduated this last weekend). About how I was reading Frederick C. Beiser&#8217;s <em>German Idealism<\/em> (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002) and got some good dissertation material written down and how the reading and writing motivated me. About how I enjoyed that Trapiche malbec last night, or about I got some new pens at the University Book Store, how the #4 was late (scheduled for 4:48 but arriving at 5), how the &#8220;regulars&#8221; were at Fair Trade but most others weren&#8217;t, and more.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t, because the prose I composed (comproased?) was wiped out in a second, in a blink of an eye.<\/p>\n<p>So now I can only point to a few links.<\/p>\n<p>Such as Daniel Zalewski&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/tv\/feature\/2007\/05\/23\/lost\/\">Tease Me<\/a>&#8221; at Salon about <em>Lost<\/em> &#8212; the first such essay there to &#8220;get&#8221; the show. Zalewski &#8220;gets&#8221; how it&#8217;s about the building and building of mystery in a Zen way, though he calls it tantric.<\/p>\n<p>Or what about the stupid <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/LegalCenter\/Story?id=3195632&amp;page=1\">Identical Twins Caught in Paternity Flap<\/a> because both slept with the same woman and so no one is <em>certain<\/em> who the father of the child is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want to go to the Supreme Court,&#8221; Raymon told ABC News. &#8220;If they can&#8217;t prove it&#8217;s me then they should throw it out of court.&#8221; And as for the child support, he said, &#8220;The state should eat it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What an ass. That&#8217;s right, ask &#8220;the state&#8221; to pay; accept some responsibility for sticking your unprotected penis in that woman&#8217;s vagina, dipsh*t&#8211;you or your brother, if not child&#8217;s father you&#8217;re at least the uncle, so grow up and act like an older relative. Act like an adult.<\/p>\n<p>The NY Times gives us <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/20\/travel\/20beer.html?8dpc\">A German Beer Trail<\/a>(&#8220;Searching for Local Brews&#8221;).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dynamic, bustling Berlin may be many things &#8212; an Old World capital of cool, the home of a vibrant literary and artistic community, Eurotrash style central &#8212; but it is not generally thought of as a city with great beer. And yet just 200 years ago, Napoleon&#8217;s army celebrated its occupation of Berlin with big mugs of weisse, toasting victories with a light, golden elixir that the French hailed as &#8220;the Champagne of the North.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had <em>Berliner Weisse<\/em> back in &#8217;91 and have loved it ever since, though it&#8217;s not my everyday brew of choice. I&#8217;ve introduced others (my brother, Kjerstin, etc.) to it with success.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I offer David Pratt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworld.compuserve.com\/homepages\/dp5\/sex1.htm#s0\">sex and sexuality<\/a> pages with an interesting section on <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworld.compuserve.com\/homepages\/dp5\/sex2.htm\">parthenogenesis<\/a>, aka &#8220;virginal reproduction.&#8221; Too bad the site as a whole is oriented toward Theosophy.<\/p>\n<p>I finished with Switchblade Symphony this evening (given to me by Tom, I think) and am now on &#8220;T&#8221; &#8212; after Tippi Tikarrass (album: Miranda) I just started Taraf de Haidouks, the Romanian Roma group (album: Live at Union Chapel).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, there is a shorter-than-expected diary here because I am f**king p***ed &#8230; my fault? I don&#8217;t know. 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