a place in motion

"When you're on the freeway, in one sense you're going someplace. But in another sense, you are someplace. You're just at a place in motion.'' 


from 1999 LA Daily News article "From Superhighways To Sigalerts: Freeways Have Become Part Of Southland's Identity" by Steve Carney

Tourism to sites of tragedy? Hmm?

http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/tsunami-tourism-in-indonesia/

Nostalgia and selective memory for a repressive government?
http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/fall-of-communism-bulgaria/

Man releases wild animals in Ohio and then kills himself. And so what does Ohio do? They shoot and kill the animals, including a grizzly bear, mountain lion, leopard and Bengal tiger.

Sheriff Matt Lutz has this little gem of wisdom: "We could not have animals running loose in this county."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/ohio-game-farm-large-animals-released-.html

Reminder: figure out the specifics of why I'm interested in robots. Watch all of Battlestar Gallactica as research.

A possible reason:
They're not human and therefore – perhaps much like the mattachine or the Shakespearean fool who reside on the margins of society (yet tell unspoken truths) – have a certain freedom that humans in human bodies do not. Gender transitivity, immortality, lack of genitals?

And more things to buy and not read:

CPA, bitches

Continuous Partial Attention? (Look, I Googled it for you)

Research

Scottish Ballet @ Dorothy Chandler

ballet + camp + reading a queer subtext = ass crack tights