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open house on sand hill road
May. 18th, 2012 06:00 pmMy summer digs are at 1766 Sand Hill Rd # 207 in Palo Alto, CA 94304. I can be reached at 650-485-2752 (land) or 323-363-1860 (mobile). My home will be open, and liquid cheer will be provided to all virtual and realspace friends and neighbors from noon till midnight on Sunday, May 20.
I welcome contest entries pursuant to the following rules, to be submitted until the closing of festivities. I will award the winner’s choice between a crisp likeness of Benjamin Franklin published by the U.S. Mint, or dinner with me at a Bay Area restaurant of my choice, to the entrant able to identify the greatest number of performance art props displayed in this photo:
In the event of a tie, preference will be given to the entrant able to answer the following questions:
I welcome contest entries pursuant to the following rules, to be submitted until the closing of festivities. I will award the winner’s choice between a crisp likeness of Benjamin Franklin published by the U.S. Mint, or dinner with me at a Bay Area restaurant of my choice, to the entrant able to identify the greatest number of performance art props displayed in this photo:
In the event of a tie, preference will be given to the entrant able to answer the following questions:
- How old was Erin Zhu when her father Min Zhu first raped her?
- When did Min Zhu resign from WebEx and flee the United States as a result of being outed as an incestuous paedophile?
- How long thereafter did it take Scott Sandell of New Enterprise Associates to fund the next venture of his publicly disgraced protégé?
the grim reaper in civil service
Jan. 27th, 2012 02:05 pm
Joshua Komisarjevsky has been sentenced to death. Will his execution elicit world-wide hand-wringing as commanded by Troy Davis, or inspire dispassionate explanations as advanced by David Garland in Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition?
the good thief
Apr. 12th, 2010 03:17 pm
Gerald Blanchard; pencil on paper; by Charles Sabba Jr.
Blanchard’s full participation came under consideration when he pled guilty to 16 charges on November 7, 2007. He agreed to sell his four condos and pay restitution to the Canadian government. And he was willing to take a longer sentence for himself in exchange for leniency toward his coaccused, whom he refused to testify against. None of his partners served jail time.
—Joshuah Bearman, “Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief”, Wired, 22 March 2010
If you are going to take the rap, that’s the way to do it.
one tough marielito
Feb. 11th, 2007 01:10 pm
Orlando Boquete, 52, exonerated of sexual assault by DNA evidence last May 23, after 22 years as a fugitive.
Ne Tibi Supersis
Ne tibi supersis:
don’t outlive yourself,
panic or break a hip
or spit puree at the staff
at the end of gender,
never a happy ender —
yet in the pastel light
of indoors, there is a lady
who has distilled to love
beyond the fall of memory.
She sits holding hands
with an ancient woman
who calls her brother and George
as bees summarize the garden.
— Les Murray, 5 January 2007, TLS
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larvatus and expats.
