diamond life
Just sitting here listening to the new Neil Diamond record which sounds pretty good - a very nice record for a rainy day: Open and airy and quiet.
Tonight is the opening home game for the Kings (against Detroit) and I'm very excited - especially after Sunday's nailbiting win against Phoenix....We have lower level tickets and I expect a wonderful chaos - the kind that makes you willing to put up with rude people and insane traffic.
Still mourning the end of a very nice weekend - the kind in which one both relaxes and gets off one's ass...one of the highlights was Olivia Coelho & Tim Tinker's art reception at Fools Foundation. Be sure to stop by there this Saturday to check out the groovy art collab - it comes equipped with an art cheat sheet!
Other fun things this weekend: A family reunion of sorts at my aunt's amazing property in El Dorado Hills, breakfast with Laura and ice cream at Gunther's....
But, back to the present. Voted at lunch time and did not get my ceremonial "I voted!" sticker...they ran out or something and I feel a bit cheated. But, whatever...
So does anybody out there have any thoughts about all the hoo-ha surrounding Maureen Dowd's New York Times magazine cover story last week? (No link to said story because the archived piece is already locked unless you want to dish out $3.95 ... which I don't.) I finally got around to reading it this weekend and did find myself shaking my head more than once at some of her observances regarding the so-called death of feminism - then again, I have met women who really are consumed by the quest for the right husband and will do anything to acheive said quest.
Anyway, according to Salon's front page story today, the Times severely chopped and screwed Dowd's piece - it was excerpted from her new book Are Men Necessary? (out today) - so that it came off as a mish-mash reshash of trend stories and woe-to-all-you-hairy-armpitted-feminists-who-fought-so-hard-for-our-rights.
I'm very interested in reading the entire book to see what her actual thesis and ideas are...I'm generally a Dowd fan although she does have some annoying quirks - not the least of which is her ability to try and play up her "clever' tendencies...
Because I do believe that feminism is dead among a certain class of women - but the question is how many of those women are out there and how much power do they have?
Tonight is the opening home game for the Kings (against Detroit) and I'm very excited - especially after Sunday's nailbiting win against Phoenix....We have lower level tickets and I expect a wonderful chaos - the kind that makes you willing to put up with rude people and insane traffic.
Still mourning the end of a very nice weekend - the kind in which one both relaxes and gets off one's ass...one of the highlights was Olivia Coelho & Tim Tinker's art reception at Fools Foundation. Be sure to stop by there this Saturday to check out the groovy art collab - it comes equipped with an art cheat sheet!
Other fun things this weekend: A family reunion of sorts at my aunt's amazing property in El Dorado Hills, breakfast with Laura and ice cream at Gunther's....
But, back to the present. Voted at lunch time and did not get my ceremonial "I voted!" sticker...they ran out or something and I feel a bit cheated. But, whatever...
So does anybody out there have any thoughts about all the hoo-ha surrounding Maureen Dowd's New York Times magazine cover story last week? (No link to said story because the archived piece is already locked unless you want to dish out $3.95 ... which I don't.) I finally got around to reading it this weekend and did find myself shaking my head more than once at some of her observances regarding the so-called death of feminism - then again, I have met women who really are consumed by the quest for the right husband and will do anything to acheive said quest.
Anyway, according to Salon's front page story today, the Times severely chopped and screwed Dowd's piece - it was excerpted from her new book Are Men Necessary? (out today) - so that it came off as a mish-mash reshash of trend stories and woe-to-all-you-hairy-armpitted-feminists-who-fought-so-hard-for-our-rights.
I'm very interested in reading the entire book to see what her actual thesis and ideas are...I'm generally a Dowd fan although she does have some annoying quirks - not the least of which is her ability to try and play up her "clever' tendencies...
Because I do believe that feminism is dead among a certain class of women - but the question is how many of those women are out there and how much power do they have?
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