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Thursday, November 22, 2001
6:10 AM      

Happy Thanksgiving to You!

I'm with my extended family this thanksgiving. My sisters-in-law and my two lovely nieces are going with us to the parade today. It's still early, and we're in the throes of getting ready to get out of here, to find a good location along the route.

I'll start with being thankful for the wonderful people in my life, especially the ones I don't know -- the ones who have helped bring about important changes, resources, and programs that enrich all of our lives. That even includes the ones I don't necessarily agree with at the moment.

There's much to be thankful for, and there's much to be thoughtful for. This will be a day of thanks and reflection for many of us. May that reflection and forward thinking continue for many years to come.

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Monday, November 19, 2001
10:03 AM      

How to say things without saying
"I think the most important thing is that he is not able to function any longer, and we're agnostic as to how that happens. I rather doubt... just given the circumstances here... I rather doubt we're talking about a long, drawn-out trial."

-CONDOLEEZZA RICE, on whether United States troops expect to kill Osama bin Laden or capture him for trial.

:::

My sister-in-law and my nieces came to town to visit for Thanksgiving. I got into a livery cab this morning for the trip to the airport to pick them up.

The cabbie was trying to avoid morning traffic, and it wasn't long before I was marvelling at seeing parts of Brooklyn I didn't recognize at all. Moments later, the cabbie turned around and said something like "Where is B.Q.E.?" Yikes - he's the driver, and he doesn't know... I had a vague idea that we were headed in the right direction, but that and $1.50 will get me on the subway here in New York.

The cabbie spotted a car ahead, and swung the big car to the left, seeming for a moment to be heading into oncoming traffic. As he pulled up alongside the other car, he powered down the passenger-side window, and motioned to the other driver to open his window too: He flattened his hand and stuck it straight out, palm down, parallel to the ground. Then, he worked his fingers up and down together, waving them like a paddle.

The other driver shot a slightly confused look, and drove off. A couple of lights later, we caught up to him again, and he seemed to have figured out that we wanted directions. He had his window down already when we pulled up next to him. The other driver started to answer "...go straight ahead..." and my driver was already starting to pull away. I heard the other driver say "...until you get to Meeker Avenue..." and we were gone. My driver had confirmed what he needed, and didn't bother to offer thanks.

A few hundred yards later, we cleared a ridge, and the elevated B.Q.E. was clearly visible.

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Seeing ourselves
What to comics, shiny things and beautiful models have in common? Maybe they're all ways of looking at ourselves; placing ourselves somewhere that we're not.

In the book Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud demonstrates that people identify most closely with simplistic images. A circle with two dots and a line is automatically seen as a face, and that face becomes a stand-in for ourselves in comic strip narrative.

We're drawn to shiny objects, and it may have to do with just the glitter and "alive-ness" of the object, but larger shiny things allow us to see our reflection, as if we're standing outside of ourselves. It's an opportunity to detach and view ourselves, almost as another person.

Studies have shown that the people who are considered most beautiful, are the ones with more symmetrical features. You could say that their faces are simplified, like the comic strip characters. Maybe the effect of sending those models down the runway, is that we see those people as a stand-in for ourselves, strutting our stuff in those fine designer wares.

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