Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Reading

26 Jan 2004, 16:42 p.m.

High school hierarchies and the attendant etiquette dilemmas are the…

High school hierarchies and the attendant etiquette dilemmas are the closest I have ever come to the world of Anna Karenina.

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16 Jan 2004, 15:17 p.m.

Thanatos

Workers are tearing down a red brick building a block away. Salon's employees are oohing and aahing by the window. Reminds me of the powerful, awesome last pages of 21 Dog Years by Mike Daisey.

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09 Jan 2004, 9:33 a.m.

Just Reread Gatsby

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the spam.

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30 Dec 2003, 11:39 a.m.

Long-Overdue Update

I had a contented Christmas with the Whitney/Richardson clan down in Bakersfield, CA. We exchanged pleasant gifts and put up with Gretel, a German Shepherd dog who is enthusiastic. I read Philip Pullman's The Broken …

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09 Dec 2003, 10:56 a.m.

Beyond Microserfs, Beyond Nostradamus

Reading Douglas Coupland's All Families Are Psychotic. It so engrossed me this morning that I missed my Muni stop. Once I watched Tartuffe at San Joaquin Delta College and the program praised Molière's economy of …

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26 Nov 2003, 12:07 p.m.

Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian

Wesley Clark talks about his spiritual beliefs. He's regularly attended a few different churches in his life. Right now he considers himself a Catholic, but doesn't attend a Catholic church. ...One night I walked out …

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25 Nov 2003, 19:01 p.m.

If You Haven't Seen It, It's Greek To You!

Oresteia and Pratchett's Small Gods are alike in that they both propose a more rational, constitution-based relationship among gods and humans. Sort of. I want to see both plays in the Continental Divide sequence/cycle/set/wave/particle in …

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23 Nov 2003, 19:17 p.m.

It Was Election Day

A year late, I got around to typing up my hands-wrung-over introduction to a Garrison Keillor event. Good evening to you, ladies, gentlemen. We welcome you to this evening's event. Thank you for coming, since …

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27 Oct 2003, 15:30 p.m.

Pretty tired. When I was in eleventh grade, I asked my…

Pretty tired. When I was in eleventh grade, I asked my wonderful English teacher, Sam Hatch, to name his favorite novel. He considered and answered: Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. A few years ago I tried to …

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21 Oct 2003, 15:32 p.m.

Cred

Andrew Leonard saw me reading Beyond Fear while eating lunch and proclaimed that I am such a geek.

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