“the survey found that while older white evangelical women were among Palin’s most ardent supporters, women below 30 from that group were far less enthusiastic about her”
I think this suggests there’s hope for us yet!
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late summer in montreal is starting to step up round the corners of the hot days, leaning in with a cold undercurrent in the breeze and a mellowing of the light into the butter angled sun that comes and turns the leaves. this weekend we rode the racetrack out on ile notre dame in a [...]

Just a quick note to thank the few people who asked to see the final version of my MA thesis “No One Knows Everything: Harold Innis and Open Source”. I’ve added the final PDF to the page that also has the table of contents and links to an earlier draft version. here.
I’d love to [...]

had a great moment today when i sent out a quick email to two former profs about how indyish will be organizing monthly showcases, and they both shot back with interest in the project. there were these few conference performances i witnessed in my time as a grad student that really gave me the creepy [...]

i’m working on an article about dry cleaning for the next issue of worn fashion journal. i’m pretty stoked about it- i was working on something else but decided to move that article to the next issue because it suits the theme (not telling) and Serah had a list of ideas for stories I could [...]

lots going on these days, though the web feels quiet. we’re working on secret behind the scene coolness for indyish and meanwhile moving all our furniture around in our livingroom/workspace area. it started because we’ve almost decided to get a dog, and if we do, out place needs a cleaning, because we’ve got dust bunnies [...]

by risa dickens
the latest incarnation of a tangled bunch of stories i’ve been poking at for a long time, trying to get them to turn into something. i pulled it into this shape and then got some advice that made me look at it another way, and didn’t end up submitting it to the contest [...]

the sound i’d like to help make:
more then one girl voice singing together, singing nice harmonies in a sometimes haunting and lovely and sometimes gritty way. Singing with and against a low and rumbling man’s voice; maybe a beatboxer or maybe just a machine made beat that sounds like how a record skips.
a [...]

Risa
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Hey man, I am open for business and ready to rumble. I am an official Ether Beta tester, so you can now talk my ear off, or get my verbal input, or get me to read to you, for twenty bucks an hour.
My additional twist: I’d like to write up people’s [...]

From my ridiculous and sexy friends, this photo just goes to show that even when you’re a pair of brilliant ladies partying in Los Angeles you just can’t help but think fondly of Montreal.

Thinking a way through dense greymatter to a new thought is tough stuff. If when you do manage to see your way clear to taking a new step forward there are tools you can use to make it happen, then you’ll stand a better chance of accomplishing the step without getting lost.

if you make sure to behave in a way that you’ll be able to stand by, you’ll always be able to act like you planned it when things go well.

ahh, lil risa’s blog, so quiet and demure, naive even. mostly because i see fit to abandon you periodically…
Things have been going ok over at Open. We’re staggering our way toward a functioning editorial collective I think, and the best bit about that will be the potentially explosive possibility of writing with others.
I [...]

so, surprise, i’m in california. i hardly had time to mention that i was coming, let alone to be here, but there you go. about a month ago i got my first ever paycheck for writing, and i’d promised my friends Jess and Joe that as soon as that happened I’d come visit.
they are an [...]

we had a little at-home pre-launch premiere last night for our brand new website- indyish.com. we set up a a couple of laptops and outputted el’s main computer to the big tv we recently inherited from him mum.
it was awesome and chill and i like to imagine that someday people will wonder who was there [...]