Comments on: More Mouths To Feed http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:53:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Ron Sullivan http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17344 Ron Sullivan Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:46:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17344 Annie, I want to see it! Whenever you're at that point, anyway. It's one opf those writers' problems that interest me a lot. And good birding to you, when you get around it. Annie, I want to see it! Whenever you’re at that point, anyway. It’s one opf those writers’ problems that interest me a lot.

And good birding to you, when you get around it.

]]> By: Pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17328 Pony Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:43:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17328 I have no idea what all that means Annie but I wish you luck anyway, especially with the job, and if you really want the piece of paper, yes that too. I can't tell you how I wish someone had forced me to take math and science. Oh wait, someone tried. A tutor was hired. He spent most of his time trying to work his free hand between my legs. I have no idea what all that means Annie but I wish you luck anyway, especially with the job, and if you really want the piece of paper, yes that too.

I can’t tell you how I wish someone had forced me to take math and science. Oh wait, someone tried. A tutor was hired. He spent most of his time trying to work his free hand between my legs.

]]> By: Annie http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17322 Annie Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:54:12 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17322 Topic:Ethical dilemmas, dealings, and classroom praxes for writing practioners situated amongst fundamentalist religious students in college composition classes...a real "light" topic for a blamer, eh? Area of study: Composition and Rhetoric Track: Multicultural Literature and Literacies (with an emphasis on cultural and literary theories) Degree: M.A. English Topic:Ethical dilemmas, dealings, and classroom praxes for writing practioners situated amongst fundamentalist religious students in college composition classes…a real “light” topic for a blamer, eh?

Area of study: Composition and Rhetoric

Track: Multicultural Literature and Literacies (with an emphasis on cultural and literary theories)

Degree: M.A. English

]]> By: Pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17318 Pony Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:58:57 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17318 Annie What's your PhD and thesis in? Annie

What’s your PhD and thesis in?

]]> By: Annie http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17302 Annie Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:21:41 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17302 It's too late for me, Ron; I have a life list and binoculars. However, I MUST drop off this blog for awhile. Potential employers, however much I would prefer to be here at home, are calling my references and eating something other than ramen noodles is dependent upon my re-entry into the workforce. Unfortunately, the pretty job with health benefits I'm after requires completion of my thesis by August. ((((Ron)))) Y'er great! It’s too late for me, Ron; I have a life list and binoculars. However, I MUST drop off this blog for awhile. Potential employers, however much I would prefer to be here at home, are calling my references and eating something other than ramen noodles is dependent upon my re-entry into the workforce. Unfortunately, the pretty job with health benefits I’m after requires completion of my thesis by August. ((((Ron)))) Y’er great!

]]> By: Ron Sullivan http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17295 Ron Sullivan Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:34:56 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17295 Oooh, Annie, nice duck. We get vagrants here a lot, including ducks -- including, several years ago, a garganey drake at the Bolinas sewage plant* -- but they're rarely tropical. And the escape/ship-assist/true vagrant debate is always fun. There was a demoiselle crane in the Sacramento Delta a couple years back that's still being puzzled over. Probably an escape, but no bands and none of the feather wear that most confined birds show. It was hanging out with a sandhill crane flock. Nice bird. *Beware of turning into a birder. It's a strange obsession that leads to strenge behavior and thoughts. I have a map in my head of local sewage treatment plants, rather like the map I suppose Twisty has in her head of local taco purveyors. Vagrants, aka extralimital birds, often show up at sewage treatment plants, for some reason. Bolinas' plant, like Arcata's, is actually a pleasant place to be. Arcata's is a tourist destination. No shit. And turning into a birder can break your heart, as things disappear. Alas, the dusky seaside sparrow. Oooh, Annie, nice duck. We get vagrants here a lot, including ducks — including, several years ago, a garganey drake at the Bolinas sewage plant* — but they’re rarely tropical. And the escape/ship-assist/true vagrant debate is always fun. There was a demoiselle crane in the Sacramento Delta a couple years back that’s still being puzzled over. Probably an escape, but no bands and none of the feather wear that most confined birds show. It was hanging out with a sandhill crane flock. Nice bird.

*Beware of turning into a birder. It’s a strange obsession that leads to strenge behavior and thoughts. I have a map in my head of local sewage treatment plants, rather like the map I suppose Twisty has in her head of local taco purveyors. Vagrants, aka extralimital birds, often show up at sewage treatment plants, for some reason. Bolinas’ plant, like Arcata’s, is actually a pleasant place to be. Arcata’s is a tourist destination. No shit.

And turning into a birder can break your heart, as things disappear. Alas, the dusky seaside sparrow.

]]> By: Annie http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17275 Annie Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:31:25 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17275 Hiaasen is witty, but generally I'm a non-fiction reader. And these days, with the damned thesis hanging over my head like an anvil, I read less and less for pleasure. This blog seems to qualify as my pleasure reading, and look I've gone and ruined it for myself by getting bummed out. I'm blaming...well...you know. The swallow-tailed kites are breath-taking...as are the Friggates that follow the hideous cruise ships into port, and the assortment of wading birds, and "strays"* from the tropics. Whenever I drive or walk along the beach I just want to weep because of the towering condos that take the places of so many nesting sea turtles, sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, etc. Trust me, I have no myths about recycling and such. * Do a search on "ringed teal." We've had a few here migrating and hanging aroudnd with the green and blue wings over the past few years. I think they may be escapees and not migrants, but they are the dearest little duckies ya ever did see! Hiaasen is witty, but generally I’m a non-fiction reader. And these days, with the damned thesis hanging over my head like an anvil, I read less and less for pleasure. This blog seems to qualify as my pleasure reading, and look I’ve gone and ruined it for myself by getting bummed out. I’m blaming…well…you know.

The swallow-tailed kites are breath-taking…as are the Friggates that follow the hideous cruise ships into port, and the assortment of wading birds, and “strays”* from the tropics. Whenever I drive or walk along the beach I just want to weep because of the towering condos that take the places of so many nesting sea turtles, sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, etc. Trust me, I have no myths about recycling and such.

* Do a search on “ringed teal.” We’ve had a few here migrating and hanging aroudnd with the green and blue wings over the past few years. I think they may be escapees and not migrants, but they are the dearest little duckies ya ever did see!

]]> By: Ron Sullivan http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17272 Ron Sullivan Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:57:59 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17272 Annie, have you read any of Carl Hiaasen's books? I like them myself. Florida breaks my heart. I speak as one who was literally struck dumb when she saw her first swallow-tailed kite. The thing that got my attention about numbers as opposed to, say, recycling, was reading a bit on the lives of the original inhabitants of the place I live -- books like <i>The Ohlone Way</i> and <i>Before the Wilderness</i>. The people here lived on the shores of SF Bay, ate lots of shellfish and ducks and fish and all, and then walked up into the hills every year to gather acorns at proprietary trees, shoot deer, snare small game, like that. Grass and flower seeds too -- they made flour or roasted them. All very biodegradable and eco-groovy. And then I pictured the current population trying that. Forget it. And this was one of the most densely populated places in pre-Columbian North America. Set Chicago to hunting bison? Orlando to snaring ducks and fishing and eating hearts of palm? NYC to fishing and clamming and hunting and raising corn? Et cetera. We're far from efficient, and we're incredibly wasteful, but supposing that a bit of recycling and community gardens and crunchy granola and windmills on the roof can stem the destruction strikes me as bad arithmetic. Annie, have you read any of Carl Hiaasen’s books? I like them myself. Florida breaks my heart. I speak as one who was literally struck dumb when she saw her first swallow-tailed kite.

The thing that got my attention about numbers as opposed to, say, recycling, was reading a bit on the lives of the original inhabitants of the place I live — books like The Ohlone Way and Before the Wilderness. The people here lived on the shores of SF Bay, ate lots of shellfish and ducks and fish and all, and then walked up into the hills every year to gather acorns at proprietary trees, shoot deer, snare small game, like that. Grass and flower seeds too — they made flour or roasted them. All very biodegradable and eco-groovy. And then I pictured the current population trying that. Forget it. And this was one of the most densely populated places in pre-Columbian North America.

Set Chicago to hunting bison? Orlando to snaring ducks and fishing and eating hearts of palm? NYC to fishing and clamming and hunting and raising corn? Et cetera. We’re far from efficient, and we’re incredibly wasteful, but supposing that a bit of recycling and community gardens and crunchy granola and windmills on the roof can stem the destruction strikes me as bad arithmetic.

]]> By: Annie http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17262 Annie Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:55:13 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17262 Ron, it is like that where I live too...maybe worse. I am essentially at the very edge of the Everglades, and I probably shouldn't be here. Sigh. I ask myself, is it like this because of the number of people here, or because of the ways in which the people here live. Both, I guess, and I'm guilty too. I turn the A/C off during the day even when I am home, but the minute the thermostat pushes 85 inside I'm closing windows and joining the ranks of the comfortable. I could ride my bike to the grocery store...I take the car because...fill in my excuse. But of course I tell myself how happy I am to live in this development because they have recycling and for years I didn't. Expiring habitats and species? Ya, we're all about that here in South Florida, and people are smug about it. The Russian Tree/Roof Rats and Euro Starlings are living quite comfortably though. Building here is about 5,000 sq ft homes. There's no affordable housing, and yet people keep moving here. I know it's like this everywhere. Depressed? Oh yea, I got a mean case of it. Maybe I just gotta quit blaming for a while... Ron, it is like that where I live too…maybe worse. I am essentially at the very edge of the Everglades, and I probably shouldn’t be here. Sigh. I ask myself, is it like this because of the number of people here, or because of the ways in which the people here live. Both, I guess, and I’m guilty too. I turn the A/C off during the day even when I am home, but the minute the thermostat pushes 85 inside I’m closing windows and joining the ranks of the comfortable. I could ride my bike to the grocery store…I take the car because…fill in my excuse. But of course I tell myself how happy I am to live in this development because they have recycling and for years I didn’t. Expiring habitats and species? Ya, we’re all about that here in South Florida, and people are smug about it. The Russian Tree/Roof Rats and Euro Starlings are living quite comfortably though. Building here is about 5,000 sq ft homes. There’s no affordable housing, and yet people keep moving here. I know it’s like this everywhere. Depressed? Oh yea, I got a mean case of it. Maybe I just gotta quit blaming for a while…

]]> By: Pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17261 Pony Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:35:26 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/04/19/more-mouths-to-feed/#comment-17261 These lands which are lost, these ecosystems, almost always turn into developments that are unaffordable to anyone but the CEO of the corporation that killed them. They aren't going to live in downtown River City, choking on pollution. Noooo. These lands which are lost, these ecosystems, almost always turn into developments that are unaffordable to anyone but the CEO of the corporation that killed them.

They aren’t going to live in downtown River City, choking on pollution. Noooo.

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