Tuesday, August 5, 2003WILDLIFE AFTER HOURSIt was around midnight last night when I asked RG to take Cassidy for her final walk of the day. The downstairs door had barely slammed shut when I knew a disaster had occurred. Our entire apartment, plus every square inch of available air space in our 6 unit condo association was filled with an... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 1:33 PM Comments (2) (link) Monday, August 4, 2003ANTHROPOLOGIST NEEDED TO STUDY TRIBAL WARFARE ON THE BLOGGING NETWORKI'm submitting this classified ad for the next issue of the Anthropology Newsletter. Tribalism may be primitive behavior but it is also endemic to the human condition. It is also alive and well here on the BN. It has been fascinating to see the alliances forming, the sneak attacks, the headmen, the... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:40 AM Comments (4) (link) Sunday, August 3, 2003STALKINGHow many of you have been the object of a stalker's attention in real life? I met Billy Silverstein at a party I was attending with RG and some of our mutual friends. When RG and I go out we do not stick together like Siamese twins. In fact, if you didn't know us, you might think we hardly knew each... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:57 AM Comments (1) (link) Saturday, August 2, 2003FAT FOLKS, A NEW TRIBAL SUB-CULTUREThe Society of Visual Anthropology meets every year in the context of the American Anthropological Associations annual meeting. I'm a member of their board of directors. It's part of the requirements of my job that I attend the meetings and I look forward to the event. I find anthropologists are the... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 8:33 AM Comments (2) (link) Friday, August 1, 2003WORDS AND MEANINGMy daughter sent me an mp3 file of Adia, my 17 month old grandaughter talking to her baby doll. She seems oblivious to the fact that she is being recorded. I hear a sweet, sing-song babble then the word "bateau" clearly emerges. It means boat in French. They live in Montreal and French is the... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:14 AM Comments (1) (link) |
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