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A friend commented in email today (2-Sep-08) that "You obviously have more time than I do for keeping up with people's LJs. " I started thinking about that, and realized "No, I don't." Life has been extraordinarily busy, and I'm not happy about the degree of attention I've been giving my relationships and my work. Not to mention the chaos that still is my office two months after moving. So, adieu. There's a few journals I'll keep reading for the purpose of hearing about events in Chicago, but I'll shift soon to doing that via an RSS aggregator. I think that means I will no longer being seeing friend-locked posts. If you want me to know about a private event you'll need to tell me in person or send email, even if you know I'm reading your public journal. But as for keeping up on friends' lives, I suddenly find myself inclined to do that in old-fashioned ways, over coffee, over dinner, by gossip over the same. And if I find myself really compelled to blog again, I'll set that up at a less distraction-inducing venue. Best wishes for love, learning, and adventure to you all. Tags: blogging
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Hi - This is my blog on LJ. I have a few others on other sites, but pretty much they just are copies of subsets of my LJ posts. Even on LJ, my posts are erratic, in terms of both frequency and topic. Ya want consistency, read Dear Abby. I read rather more on LJ that I write. [Update: 11-Dec-07: In truth, I'm not reading LJ much these days. Life has happily gotten very full lately.] LJ has a mechanism that lets me list a set of blogs that I want to read and see those entries on one web page. That's a good thing. A bad thing is that this mechanism is called "Friends". Another bad thing is that anyone can see my list of "Friends". The combination of these two bad things can lead to bad feelings. If I add you to my list, all that means is that I want to try reading your posts as they appear. If I remove you, all that means is that I want to try not reading your posts as they appear. Period. My list of "Friends" changes frequently, often in response to shifting curiosities I have about particular people or particular topics. I will mention that one reason I choose not to read someone's posts is that I find myself feeling I am learning more about that person's inner life, or relationships with other people (particularly people I know), than I feel comfortable knowing. Yes, they are choosing to make these things public, but my sense of the private is sometimes calibrated differently, and varies a lot with the particular person. Tags: lj
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Sin in the Second City Tuesday, April 7, 7:00 p.m. Talk by Karen Abbott about her book on Chicago brothels. -------- Playboy Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. Talk by Jim Peterson, author of The Century of Sex: Playboy's History of the Sexual Revolution. -------- Let’s Talk about Sex Wednesday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. An underspecified discussion about sex. :-) -------- More at http://www.chicagohistory.org/planavisit/upcomingevents/lectures. Tickets are $10, $8 for members. Tags: chicago, events, sex
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A brief return to LJ to let everyone in Chicago know of this amazing production: http://www.strawdog.org/index.php?section=history&production=rurThis is, bar none, the best production of a science fiction play I've ever seen, and one of the best theater productions I've seen. RUR is the Ur-story of robot rebellion (the word "robot" originated in this play), and a profound examination of what it means to be human, for both homo sapiens and our creations. The treatment of the role of work and automation and their impact on our lives is as or more timely now, as when it was written and first produced (the 1920's). Through Oct. 25, 2008 at Strawdog Theatre Company, 3829 N Broadway, Chicago, IL. Tags: sci-art, science fiction, theatre
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