This article almost made me sick today. A franchise, Gymboree Play & Music, opened in Baton Rouge this year. Not the clothing store Gymboree, although it was developed by the same person, but an actual Gym. For babies and parents. To play. For $175-$200 for 12 weeks.
Am I missing something? Play? Isn’t that something that [...]
Entries from October 2006
October 8, 2006
Franchise Nation
October 6, 2006
almost full circle: the “reappearance” e.coli
Today’s news reveals that e.coli has made a dramatic encore on the media stage–this time emerging in ground beef. As many others and I’ve mentioned before, the “spinach scare” wasn’t really about spinach. It was/is about food preparation–about commercial agriculture–about our own food literacy. Unlike the spinach media coverage, a lot of the mainstream stories [...]
October 5, 2006
reclaiming the productive schedule!
after a quite a bit of time slacking off on my reading schedule, i am back, roaring and ready to go. now with new and improved tagging and note-taking (which by the way was inspired by earth wide moth and his musings on notes specifically).
in other news, i have cancelled not one but two conferences [...]
October 4, 2006
(When) Will I Catch Up?
This semester is kicking my ass. Plain and simple. Reading for exams is just exhausting and I don’t like this new iWeb enough to keep it so I’ll probably have to transfer back to WordPress though I don’t know when I’ll get a breath to do it!
I’ve been reading a lot of social movement theory–foundations [...]
