Archive for May, 2006
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
An inconvenient feeling…
Yikes. If I ever think i’m feeling too cynical, i’ll remind myself that I probably couldn’t be more pessimistic than Kunstler (his thoughts are well summarized in Dan Neil’s piece on Al Gore’s new documentary and Kunstler’s less optimistic views on energy, in the LA Times magazine): As gas prices in Southern California hover near [...]
No Comments » - Posted in california,culture by anjali
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Sweet DJ booth!
Yowzers! Someone’s giving away a DJ booth in los angeles (link to craigslist post no longer exists), and I want it! and it’s free! Alas, neither can I transport it right now nor can I fit it in my house right now. But imagine the possibilities — friends dancing on your DJ booth, or displaying [...]
No Comments » - Posted in beats,los angeles by anjali
Monday, May 15th, 2006
Arise, then, women of this day!
Thanks to my friend Julio for sharing the wikipedia entry for the Mother’s Day Proclamation with me: The “Mother’s Day Proclamation” by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in culture,nonviolent resistance,quotes by anjali
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
shake it, shake it like a Polaroid picture
In my next 2 weeks of my family medicine residency program, I’ll be working at and learning from various community health projects in LA. These are two weeks that other residents tell me are grounding — they awaken us sleepy/agitated/tired/hospital-based first year residents to the community health work around us and inspire us again — [...]
No Comments » - Posted in beats,education,los angeles,residency by anjali
Monday, May 8th, 2006
So this is what social justice looks like…
My much-needed vacation began almost 2 weeks ago with a bang. One of my best friends from medical school, Nicole, flew in from Paris, where she had spent the first 5 days of her vacation (our vacations overlapped!) and we spent the day preparing for our upcoming trip to Joshua Tree national park and Coachella. [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in los angeles by anjali
Friday, May 5th, 2006
Ode to a vacant apartment
My brother Nalin and I are itching to move about in this big city o’ Los Angeles. We’ve lived in a beautiful little house with lots of space and a front and backyard, for almost a year now, and we’re only a mile from the beach, and it’s so beautiful here, but as a friend [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in los angeles,quotes by anjali
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
You know….fiction!
My favorite paragraph from Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner: “Listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works: the president makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell check and [...]
