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use SAT words when speaking around the kid - we still might inadvertently teach her to curse like sailors, but we can at least ensure she can do it with an extensive  vocabulary for supporting embellishment.

dont watch TV around the kid, TV is bad, it spawns ADHD and we need to watch less of it anyway. except i want to see all the new Dr Who eps and Torchwood. Why, oh why, didnt they put Sarah Jane on TW? Sexy older women rule.

pah to tv. i need more nature. we all need more nature!
finish this book:

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

visiting my mom is such an experience now, as i'm finally getting enough distance to see the area somewhat objectively, while still retaining all the emotional overlays. i'm doubly shocked, at how much of the area is undeveloped, wild, green, rich in layers of life and the unexpected, and then at how poor and run-down so much of the constructed parts are. i never really thought about "Appalachian poverty" when I was growing up. Or is it just that they place emphasis on other parts of their lives than outward displays of wealth? It's hard to say, especially when i see people with bad teeth and too much hairspray everywhere.  do they care that bears are in the woods out back?

note for next time, if there is a next time: try not to mention to the relatives that they are almost all significantly overweight.  pah, why do i care about the relatives anyway - we have nothing in common beyond basic human bodily functions, some random bits of genes, and possibly now the experience of changing diapers. although basic bodily functions are probably different, too, given it's still impossible for me to eat anything at the cousins' xmas brunch due to all the sausage & lard in everything.

King St., kid sticks her tongue out to catch snow, bundled like an eskimo baby, its all experience, full on! life is, and so much fun. for instance, did you know poop can be green? wow! that's actually amazingly cool. i find that few of the things that freak other people out about kids are the ones that bother me. its the stuff that other people take as normal that i get bent up about. like, why do kids need thousands of brightly colored toys? what's wrong with trees and going for walks and letting them watch the cats? is the increase in ADHD somehow related to how different the world after babydom is from baby-world of bright colors and toys that make noise and such? i really really do NOT like toys that make noise. Not even musical ones, cos the music is always so awful and tinny and not very musical at all. Can't somebody PLEASE make a toy that will allow you to insert an mp3 of your choice? wouldn't it be so much better to have the dance toy playing Shpongle and the sleepytime toy playing Loreena McKennitt?

Tales of the Inexpressible

my regifted iPod has allowed me to rediscover a bunch of old talks I've had floating around for ages, stuff like Mark Pesce on Art Bell's radio show and Terence McKenna speaking at various conferences. I forget sometimes just how smart that guy really was, and how much breadth of scholarship he had. He could flip from discussing ancient history to quantum physics to political theory like - snap!- that. i suppose in some ways that's much like me - they used to call  it "renaissance," but now i think they call it unemployable. i think it might really be a form of shamanism itself, the ability to compile and reorganize all that information in new and novel ways. but am i a shaman? or just a technohippie?

note to everyone: I'm now going to be cross-posting betwixt LJ and VOX. See you there?

as penknife said, i'm in no hurry to leave LJ, but i am kinda curious about the whole multimedia thing Vox appears to have goin' on. so, here i am. gues we'll see where it goes from here.