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Saturday, July 05, 2003 |
It's Hard, Being a Chinese DJ. Spinning tunes is problematic in a country where access to the hottest western music isn't cheap, or easy. But necessity is the mother of invention, and these young DJs have ways of outfoxing the system. Hector Mackenzie reports from Beijing. [Wired News]
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Still cleaning out and finding gems.
diary
A weeklong electronic journal.
Untenured (an
assistant professor at a well-known private American university). From the
winter of 1999.
For all this, the pay is lousy and academics get no respect.
Being populists, Americans tend to treat higher learning with distrust,
disdain, and/or uncomfortable awe. I have a philosopher friend who learned
long ago that mentioning his profession was a sure-fire way to stop
conversation at a social gathering. And within the university, while there
is no fool-proof standard of success, there are many forms of failure--some
of which are so baroque that they take years to become, as a doctor might
say, "emergent." At the end of the day, when and if the tenure battle is
won, one faces the even more frightening prospect that one could join the
ranks of "deadwood," "dinosaurs," or any of the other species of Tenured
Undead who end their days pickled in the brine of their unwritten books and
unfulfilled aspirations.
(also available
loads
of other places, it seems)
1:09:10 PM
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Jim Morrison found dead, this day, 1971.
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