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Amber,Have you seen this?http://lickingcalcutta.bl...

2008-10-02T07:05:00.000-07:00

Amber,

Have you seen this?

http://lickingcalcutta.blogspot.com/2008/09/disability-plans-obama-and-mccain.html

I think this is totally misguided. I don't know ab...

2008-10-02T05:07:00.000-07:00

I think this is totally misguided. I don't know about the movie, but the book is a work of absolute genius that has nothing to do with disability.

I followed, and about the 'R' word. But, I am beginning to get frustrated. If 'we' can mobilize about Hollywood, where is the mobilization to get a good president elected. What do you think?

H Jennifer,I think people were not really referrin...

2008-09-30T17:54:00.000-07:00

H Jennifer,

I think people were not really referring to disability as anything in particular. I think this group started with the intention of having speakers on the issue of disability and poetics but in the case of this discussion, as Dodie said, we "were trying to do too much at once" and it ended up being about Bhanu's notions of healing as she is a body worker/a person who has seen a lot of family trauma due to ethnic discplacement and partly about my ideas of a poetics as it relates to the idiosyncracies of personal physiology. I think actually the "trauma" came from the audience's gloss on things and as for why my discussion made people uncomfortable, well I wasn't aware it did and would like to know why as well.

I think while the talk was advertised as part of a disability discussion, it ended up not being that, it took its own form though it touched on some aspects of disability because they relate to my writing.

Hi Amber,I just started reading about the discussi...

2008-09-30T09:46:00.000-07:00

Hi Amber,

I just started reading about the discussion. I see a couple of things that worry me, but may be mistranslating. Are people referring to the disabled body as a wounded body? Are people using the word 'trama' to refer to the disabled body? Why did your piece make people 'uncomfortable?' Why do people have a hard time accepting people with disabilities as an identity i.e. race or gender rather than a weakness?

yay, flordicana!

2008-06-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

yay, flordicana!

what a great article... i know you always spoke s...

2008-04-13T07:10:00.000-07:00

what a great article... i know you always spoke so highly of him, and described him very well, but it was neat to read that article and esp about his work in tibet.... you are definitely very lucky to have him : )

Did you see that one of the people in the stories ...

2008-02-10T19:51:00.000-08:00

Did you see that one of the people in the stories this week was named Teresa Walsh?? Weird coincidence.

I will probably post this story on my blog... thanks much!

So I finally (you rest your case) got round to rea...

2007-11-27T06:42:00.000-08:00

So I finally (you rest your case) got round to reading your editorial piece and loved it. Perhaps everything is gradually coalescing towards 2012 as so many have predicted. Many more people wanting to go more slowly, to breathe (inspire), to savour the flavour of life in its day by day manifestations. To live and be aware of living.

Have good times and thanks for The Blink

Gin

Hmm--I read that article you quote from and loved ...

2007-11-06T09:19:00.000-08:00

Hmm--I read that article you quote from and loved it, but I'm not even sure how crazy I am about her poetry I am after reading the work the article links to. So I'm rethinking getting the book, but her ideas and the way she executes them are just so compelling to me. I saw her read/perform at CCAC in her breathy voice throwing string around and loved that. So I was thinking about all this in terms of my stupid novel, where there is now an artist who makes Vicuna-style art referencing North America from hanks of the abandoned weaves that litter the streets of Oakland. Here is a quote:

She fixed on an illustration of one of Vicuña’s pecularios, a stone next to a string tied like a quipu, and thought that although we did not have this particular tradition in our country, what she imagined were piles and piles of quipu in a roofless fourteenth-century ruin of an Incan cubicle, we did have these weave pieces in the streets. Cast from women’s heads, trampled by rain and traffic, knotty and full of garbage. We did not have the same word for “to weave” and “to breathe” like in the Quechua language, but in Oakland you might have to differentiate whether you are weaving a cloth or having a weave put in or torn out of your hair, and there’s beauty there.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Upon closer consideration, I think the thing about Quechua isn't true and that I just made it up.

Do you have that Precarious book? I have put it on...

2007-11-05T08:06:00.000-08:00

Do you have that Precarious book? I have put it on my xmas list. I love the thing about reciprocity.

xox

I just started reading this book yesterday, and I ...

2007-10-25T08:43:00.000-07:00

I just started reading this book yesterday, and I think it's hilarious. The 6 days in prison! "Ugh, you smell like barbeque." Etc. Thank you for writing about it--I love your reviews.

straight off some dead old lady's back, LOLOL!

2007-09-12T21:48:00.000-07:00

straight off some dead old lady's back, LOLOL!

That editing bit is dead-on my experience with edi...

2007-08-29T09:45:00.000-07:00

That editing bit is dead-on my experience with editing a certain retail catalog that shall remain nameless.

That is the funniest thing I have ever seen. I rea...

2007-08-17T08:03:00.000-07:00

That is the funniest thing I have ever seen. I really enjoyed reading those little essays that the links you sent me open into.

this is rad!

2007-08-14T10:29:00.000-07:00

this is rad!

2007-08-14T10:27:00.000-07:00

this is rad!

Bat rays! Leopard sharks! All we gots is crawdads....

2007-07-26T07:04:00.000-07:00

Bat rays! Leopard sharks! All we gots is crawdads.
These pictures have been inspiring me to take a long walk since you first posted them, but it will not stop raining. Last night it stopped for a while and the sky turned pink and there was a rainbow.

mmm, plantanos. wait...what?

2007-06-08T21:48:00.000-07:00

mmm, plantanos. wait...what?

dear amber,i heard a joke last night that you can ...

2007-05-29T09:48:00.000-07:00

dear amber,
i heard a joke last night that you can use in your blog blurb about proofreading and typos if you want. it concerns a typist here who makes a lot of mistakes. one of his coworkers said, "do you know what [typist's] blood type is?"......"Type O"!!!
this was the funniest thing i'd ever heard, at least at the moment. ok, it's still funny.

...im going to make some of that bread...

2007-05-27T03:09:00.000-07:00

...im going to make some of that bread...

oh! my mom was always a big fan of shells on the b...

2007-05-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

oh! my mom was always a big fan of shells on the back of the toilet. i thought everyone did it, and tried to do it, but you really need to do things like clean and dust to maintain things like that attractively.
hmm. i bought a basket of shells in fla. when i went there when i was 10, and i think they were the exact same shells as your toilet shells.
what i mean to say is that i enjoy your travel photos.

I knoooow. I love the little stories about them. T...

2007-04-14T16:03:00.000-07:00

I knoooow. I love the little stories about them. These people know how to use adjectives.