[NON BLOG] Busy Day
Sep. 15th, 2005 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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heraclitus this afternoopn for a typically enjoyable ongoing discussion on multiple subjects. heraclitus set the ball rolling by raising, in connection with my review of Rosenfeld's The World Hitler Never Made, Italian intellectual Giorgio Agamben and his provocative "Remnants of Auschwitz. Other topics broached included the futures of Russia and China, the aesthetics of fascism, his recommendation of Dan Simmons' Hyperion Quartet and my recommended of John Barnes' Million Open Doors (blogged by me last June and last month) for looks at transhumanist futures, mentioning the phenomena of chimpanzee wars and dolphin gang-rapes in connection with human aggressiveness and our need to splice bonob genes into the human genome, Levinas' insertion of God into Heidegger's philosophy, lifestyle experimentation, and the joys of the Toronto Reference Library and certain of the titles contained therein.
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Heading south of Church, we passed by Slack Alice, reopened for business. The old bar had charm and intimacy, an eccentric decor and a friendly environment. The new one is a soulless restaurant. I weep inwardly at the loss.
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It had been a year minus three days since I last met up? withroosterbear and quillon. Fortunately, I didn't have to chase them down with a dying cell phone and a vague number of their numbers and destination, instead meeting them at the Lettieri on the southeast corner of Church and Wellesley at a pre-arranged time with no problems. Light supper followed at the enjoyable Fiddler's Green (27 Wellesley St E), followed by drinks at Woody's. It had been much too long, but here they are in town and I'm pleased.
heraclitus this afternoopn for a typically enjoyable ongoing discussion on multiple subjects. heraclitus set the ball rolling by raising, in connection with my review of Rosenfeld's The World Hitler Never Made, Italian intellectual Giorgio Agamben and his provocative "Remnants of Auschwitz. Other topics broached included the futures of Russia and China, the aesthetics of fascism, his recommendation of Dan Simmons' Hyperion Quartet and my recommended of John Barnes' Million Open Doors (blogged by me last June and last month) for looks at transhumanist futures, mentioning the phenomena of chimpanzee wars and dolphin gang-rapes in connection with human aggressiveness and our need to splice bonob genes into the human genome, Levinas' insertion of God into Heidegger's philosophy, lifestyle experimentation, and the joys of the Toronto Reference Library and certain of the titles contained therein.Heading south of Church, we passed by Slack Alice, reopened for business. The old bar had charm and intimacy, an eccentric decor and a friendly environment. The new one is a soulless restaurant. I weep inwardly at the loss.
It had been a year minus three days since I last met up? with
roosterbear and quillon. Fortunately, I didn't have to chase them down with a dying cell phone and a vague number of their numbers and destination, instead meeting them at the Lettieri on the southeast corner of Church and Wellesley at a pre-arranged time with no problems. Light supper followed at the enjoyable Fiddler's Green (27 Wellesley St E), followed by drinks at Woody's. It had been much too long, but here they are in town and I'm pleased.
