Archive for September 28th, 2007

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

New Springsteen CD

Bruce Springsteen’s latest CD was released today. It’s called, “Magic.” Reviews say its his most political cd yet, largely about the Bush administration. His last CD, in response to 9/11, was called “The Rising.” Hmmmmm. First “The Rising,” now “Magic.” Funny how those old Hebrew notions keep coming back to haunt us. […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

Typewriters & Women

A section of the typewriter article found on Wikipedia that was particularly interesting…
When Remington first started marketing typewriters, the company assumed the machine would not be used for composing but for transcribing dictation, and that the person typing would be a woman. Flowers were printed on the casing of early models to make the machine […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

Bionic Imaginary

According to the NYT the “Bionic Woman” was the most watched show on Wednesday night. In our current cultural moment this makes a lot of sense. The paternal symbolic is in deep trouble. Father/son Bush have emasculated the US in a war that we can’t win, with a country/society that, like Dracula, […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

Moonlight

Here’s a review of tonight’s first episode of Moonlight, the new vampire tv show. Notice the vampire’s assistant is a female web journalist. Notice that her name is Beth, a letter of the alphabet, as in Aleph, Beth. Notice the coupling of the symbolic (rule book — the law and writing technology) with the imaginary […]

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