{"id":1264,"date":"2004-10-21T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/font-liscious_21\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:54","slug":"font-liscious_21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/font-liscious_21\/","title":{"rendered":"font-a-liscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>many of you are nerds, so you have opinions on fonts.  nonono, this is a <em>good<\/em> thing.  What font should I use for my thesis?  I was thinking something serriffed would be easier to read when printed out.  What is this important now?  It&#8217;s not.  but cast a ballot early.  and speaking of ballots, wtf is with all these propositions?<\/p>\n<p>my laptop hard drive has the click of death.  no immediate death, but eventual hard rrive failer, wich is disenheratening, seeing as i&#8217;ve only had it since december.<br \/>\nI am listening to a box set from <em>Ou<\/em>, a poetry magazine.  They got into speech art \/ spoken word stuff.  Some of it sounds just like music.  I want to listen to other people working with words so I can say something intelligent about such work.  I think I&#8217;m going to get some of Steve Reich&#8217;s tape loops out of the library tomorrow.  I tried something like <em>Come Out<\/em> with Rush Limbuagh and it just wasn&#8217;t working for me.  Also, I want to read the program ntoes.  What the heck was the point of those pieces?  Look, you can get a nifty rythm if you loop folks talking about being beaten by the police?  I mean, there&#8217;s political content, for sure, but especially in the case of <em>Come Out<\/em>, it seems sort of exploitative.  That&#8217;s a major claim to make, so I want to read what he wrote about it before I say anything.  But to my ignorant self, it seems like he&#8217;s using the words of African Americans and then slowly degenerating their meaning until it&#8217;s unintelligible.  What does it mean when a white guy does that?  I mean, I specifically tweak the words of people I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> like as a form of disrespect.  Furthermore, the piece <em>Come Out<\/em>:  from the title you&#8217;d expect it to be gay.  It&#8217;s not.  It&#8217;s a snippet of speech by a preacher in a park, maybe Golden Gate park?  I can&#8217;t remember.  The preacher does not deliberately seem to be invoking a gay phrase.  To what extent was Rech aware of the gay meaning of said phrase?  If he was aware of it, why was he highlighing it?  I&#8217;m reading a book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/pages\/10228.html\" target=\"_top\">The Queer Composition of America&#8217;s Sound<\/a>, which talks about queerness and sexual otherness and a bit how that&#8217;s tied into race.  African Americans can stand in for queers and vice versa in our cultural language, which is why &#8220;black&#8221; music, like jazz, stands for sexual experience, fludity, queerness, etc.  For instance, <em>Four Saints in three Acts<\/em> had many African American cast members.  So is Reich invoking this?  Must find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>many of you are nerds, so you have opinions on fonts. nonono, this is a good thing. What font should I use for my thesis? I was thinking something serriffed would be easier to read when printed out. What is this important now? It&#8217;s not. but cast a ballot early. and speaking of ballots, wtf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/font-liscious_21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">font-a-liscious<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}