THE MAN WHO REVIVED THE PARK AT THE END OF THE STREET
Every weekday morning Baslow makes his way to the end of his street past a really lovely garden (called "Bruce's Garden") and through a beautiful small park on his way to the 207th Street station of the "A" train. The park is Isham park. The man who spearheaded the movement to beautify it is named J. A. Reynolds. NY1 recently named him their New Yorker of the Week.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
BASLOW MEETS SUBWAY ARTIST MAN
So I got onto the Number 1 train at 42nd Street to head home in early July and it was, surprisingly, not packed. I got a seat right away and, in fact, there was an empty seat next to me. I pulled out my book and began reading. This book takes a lot of concentration so I soon was unaware of what was going on in the subway car. Just before the train reached 72nd Street the guy sitting opposite me slaps a piece of paper, face down, on the seat next to me. I look up in confusion. He's smiling. "Look at it," he urges. So I pick up the paper.
This is what I saw.
So I was telling my story today at work and someone says, "You know, I read a story in the New York Times about a guy like that."So I look it up and this is what I found:
"Faster Than A Speeding Train: Artist Man"
(Only the first few sentences will be readable for free. You'll have to pay if you want to read the whole article.)
So I got onto the Number 1 train at 42nd Street to head home in early July and it was, surprisingly, not packed. I got a seat right away and, in fact, there was an empty seat next to me. I pulled out my book and began reading. This book takes a lot of concentration so I soon was unaware of what was going on in the subway car. Just before the train reached 72nd Street the guy sitting opposite me slaps a piece of paper, face down, on the seat next to me. I look up in confusion. He's smiling. "Look at it," he urges. So I pick up the paper.
This is what I saw.
So I was telling my story today at work and someone says, "You know, I read a story in the New York Times about a guy like that."So I look it up and this is what I found:
"Faster Than A Speeding Train: Artist Man"
(Only the first few sentences will be readable for free. You'll have to pay if you want to read the whole article.)
CONFLICTING MODELS OF BREASTFEEDING
Here is the text of an email I sent to a Cognitive Linguistics mailing list:
I am not a cognitive linguist (not even an academic) but merely an interested onlooker. Please forgive me (and inform me) if this post is an intrusion.
My wife, a lactation consultant, recently heard the story of a woman who was breastfeeding in a park. The breastfeeding mother was approached by another woman (described as "well-dressed and in her thirties") who asked her: "Do you fuck in public, too?"
Having just read Lakoff's "Moral Politics" I began to wonder about the models which underlie this story's comprehensibility. They seem to me to have something to do with breasts-as-sources-of-nurture versus breasts-as-objects-of-sexual-attention and, perhaps, with different models of publicly and privately appropriate behavior.
That, however, is about as far as I have gotten in thinking about this; no further than breastfeeding advocates themselves get when discussing such stories.
Can Cognitive Linguistics shed more light? Does anyone know of work which might help me think further about the matter?
Thank you.
Barry Solow
Here is the text of an email I sent to a Cognitive Linguistics mailing list:
I am not a cognitive linguist (not even an academic) but merely an interested onlooker. Please forgive me (and inform me) if this post is an intrusion.
My wife, a lactation consultant, recently heard the story of a woman who was breastfeeding in a park. The breastfeeding mother was approached by another woman (described as "well-dressed and in her thirties") who asked her: "Do you fuck in public, too?"
Having just read Lakoff's "Moral Politics" I began to wonder about the models which underlie this story's comprehensibility. They seem to me to have something to do with breasts-as-sources-of-nurture versus breasts-as-objects-of-sexual-attention and, perhaps, with different models of publicly and privately appropriate behavior.
That, however, is about as far as I have gotten in thinking about this; no further than breastfeeding advocates themselves get when discussing such stories.
Can Cognitive Linguistics shed more light? Does anyone know of work which might help me think further about the matter?
Thank you.
Barry Solow
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Thursday, September 11, 2003
SHOULD BASLOW RETURN?
Contrary to (relatively) recent speculation Baslow is not, was not, and likely never will be in Iraq (or Iran, or Singapore, or Guatemala, or Rumania). Baslow has merely been lying low, very low, for a very long time. Baslow grew to be convinced that nobody was reading his delightful weblog and moved on to other modes of expression. He has, however, come to think that he might give weblogging another shot and so he turns to you, dear reader. Should he? Please review the Omniumgatherum and then convery your answer by sending email to baslowsblog@yahoo.com.
Baslow thanks you.
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Contrary to (relatively) recent speculation Baslow is not, was not, and likely never will be in Iraq (or Iran, or Singapore, or Guatemala, or Rumania). Baslow has merely been lying low, very low, for a very long time. Baslow grew to be convinced that nobody was reading his delightful weblog and moved on to other modes of expression. He has, however, come to think that he might give weblogging another shot and so he turns to you, dear reader. Should he? Please review the Omniumgatherum and then convery your answer by sending email to baslowsblog@yahoo.com.
Baslow thanks you.
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