the ancient past

Living all over / Google-mapping my life

by Doug LeMoine on 19 April 2007

So how come I just now learned that you can create your own Google Maps mark-up? As a lover of both maps and personal documents, the ability to customize an online map has the potential to have a Shabu – like effect on my life. The above map has all the places I’ve lived in the Bay [...]

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Small worlds / Phil Collins, The World Won’t Listen

by Doug LeMoine on 8 February 2007

I met Phil Collins (the British artist, not the British pop star1) at a bar in Brooklyn in the mid 90’s. At the time, I didn’t know him as “the British artist,” I knew him only as my friend Tom’s legendary boyfriend. I remember little of the night, but I do remember a hubbub accompanying [...]

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Lit / Simpler, more anarchic times

by Doug LeMoine on 12 January 2007

Let’s just say that I’ve crossed paths with the Anarchist Cookbook [Wikipedia] [Amazon] a couple of times in my life. In my youth, making a film canister bomb was a popular diversion, and the cookbook teaches you how to make it with stuff you can buy at a scientific material supply store. The first step [...]

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Kansas City / Home for the holidays

by Doug LeMoine on 8 January 2007

I love Flickr, but the good times are killing me. It’s got too many amazing high-def and beautifully composed photos. How do they do it? After doing some research, I decided to step up my game and picked up a fancypants camera. Above is one of the first pictures I took with it, a panorama [...]

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Thanksgiving remix

by Doug LeMoine on 7 December 2006

Thanksgiving 2006 came and went, attended by friends, family and the customary dramas. An East Coast / West Coast feud flared up in the week before the holiday. Gabriel (East) sent what some in the West perceived as “a salvo across the bow” in the form of a PowerPoint presentation (a slide of which is [...]

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Silver Jews / 27 goes into 50,000

by Doug LeMoine on 19 May 2006

In the Silver Jews song “Trains Across the Sea,” there’s a line that goes: “In 27 years, I’ve drunk 50,000 beers, and they just wash against me like the sea into a pier.” That’s 5+ beers a day from birth until your 28th birthday. If you start at 16, you’re drinking a 12-pack a day [...]

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SportsCenter catchphrases & their usage contexts

by Doug LeMoine on 2 March 2006

I watch so much SportsCenter that I figured I’d try to chronicle the non sequitors that they use to punctuate excellent sports moments. Three beers apiece for my co-workers – While high-fives among teammates are being exchanged. Derivation: Shawshank Redemption What’s on the grill?  —  Punctuates the moment when someone, usually Dwayne Wade, dunks in someone else’s [...]

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Kansas basketball / The basics

by Doug LeMoine on 20 January 2006

I have irrational feelings about Kansas basketball, and this entry is a simple effort to contextualize and provide foundation for comments I will make as the 2005  –  6 season unfolds. I grew up in Kansas. My grandfather, great-grandfather, dad, uncle, and aunt all attended the University of Kansas. My family had season tickets for both football [...]

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Art / Robert Adams at SFMOMA

by Doug LeMoine on 7 December 2005

I’d never heard of Robert Adams before I saw his show at SFMOMA. Called “Turning Back,” the photos document the destruction of the old-growth forests that Lewis & Clark passed through on their journey westward. The title refers to the implications and complications of westward advancement. When Lewis and Clark reached the West Coast, they [...]

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Rust Belt road trip

by Doug LeMoine on 3 August 2005

Pittsburgh. Buffalo. Niagara Falls. Toronto. Detroit. It’s not exactly Route 66, but it was hot. The whole trip is on Flickr.

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