tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160631682012-02-11T03:53:16.748-05:00B. C. Lovatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06366955478994951272noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16063168.post-259902091287644352009-12-06T22:41:00.000-05:002009-12-06T22:42:02.909-05:00

 For those of you that don't have facebook, here's a lovely picture from my birthday party.

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I liked this quote by J. G. Merquior, so I thought I'd post it here:In intellectual machismo, the strength of one's argument is not propped up by logical quality-rather, it is conveyed by the unflinching self-confidence of one's tone. Impressiveness, not cogency, is the thing. So it is with Shaw; so with Sartre-and so, too, with Foucault.

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  This is my new bike. I am quite happy with it so far. I'm tossing around names -- currently leaning toward "Dr. Manhattan." Not sure if I'll stick with that though. It's been fun having a fast bike instead of the ol' beach cruiser. Plus, this is the first time I've ever had a bike with multiple gears; so that's something to get used to.

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While having dinner with some colleagues yesterday, I was told that theorists should "at least try to measure something." Why? Well, in order to be in touch with the real world of course. I didn't quite know how to respond to this statement. Even now, I am still quite confused as to what measuring things has to do with one's level of contact with the real world. This seems to suggest a few

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My kid is more hardcore than your kid.

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Being the father of a young boy, I can't help but constantly think about and worry about how to raise him to be a good person. Right now, my primary concerns may be getting him to crawl or sleep on his own; but I know that pretty soon we'll be hitting the hard stuff. I recently read Should We Burn Babar by Herbert Kohl. Kohl, an award winning educator, argues that the content of some

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Well, wife and kid have taken off for hotter and yellower pastures. They'll be in Fresno for the week while i am forced to suffer in the land of beach and bleach. The summer is going alright so far. Students had a midterm last week. I haven't begun the grading yet, but I'm sure they did alright. Other than that, I'm just trying to get a little work of my own done. Got a couple projects to

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Kaleena and Pascual arrive at SBA tonight after being in Tacoma for the past two weeks. The novelty of having my own bed wore off after a day or two. And while it was nice to be able to get all of my work done at the end of the quarter, it was not nice spending my four days of vacation without them. I hope this doesn't mean that I'm codependent or anything. I'm pretty sure it's alright to

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Yeah, I know, it has been far too long since my last post. A lot has happened since then. Kaleena and I became parents on December 31, 2007. Pascual is pretty much the most amazing little guy ever. I'm sure every parent says/thinks this, but, trust me, it's true with this one. I've basically just been keeping really busy attempting to spend time with the wife and son while still making

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Sorry about the lack of an update there. Just thought I'd let you all know that I received a "high pass" on my exam. This means that I can move on to preparing my field paper for comparative politics. I should have that done in the spring/early summer. At that point it will be time to figure out what I will be writing my dissertation on. Hopefully that doesn't take too long, but I do know a

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Okay, so it's been nearly three months. I know. That's a long time. A lot has happened, we found out we're having a boy. He shall be called Pascual Edward. We're excited about that. I spent this summer preparing for my comprehensive exam in political theory. I also spent the second half of this summer TAing. It was a busy summer. I took the theory exam two weeks ago. Forty-eight hours

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So, after sitting in the waiting room for nearly an hour we were informed that there was no record of us having an appointment yesterday. They rescheduled us for next Friday. Which means that it will now be a two week delayed appointment (as our original appointment was for last Friday). We're now on the lookout for a new doctor -- hopefully a more organized one.Also, we ended up going down to

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We've had quite a bit of company recently: Rodney, Dawn, Paul, Jen, Frances, Tyler. It was super great to see everyone, especially those that live quite far away (Texas and Vietnam are really the same thing to me). We're hopefully seeing a handful of those guests again tomorrow in Thousand Oaks. I'm looking forward to it -- it's always good to be around good friends.On the baby front, we have

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Ultrasound4 Originally uploaded by daseinschockrock I know it has been over three months since my last post. I apologize to anyone that actually still reads/checks this. This past quarter was a busy one. Not only was school quite hectic, but we also received some very good news via a pregnancy test from Costco. Kaleena and I will be welcoming a child into this world this coming

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So here I am writing my paper, doing a little research, and I found these.

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I realize that it's been over five weeks since my last post and I apologize. Shortly after my last post I entered into a world I had never known before. This is the world of grading. I emerged from this cave this past Friday evening. It felt good, until I realized that it was now time for me to start working on my own papers. Thus, my spring break will be spent writing two papers. The first

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Okay, so I didn't post about my adventures in TAing last week. Sorry about that. Just went over Machiavelli. Nothing fantastic. Apparently the fascist has a soft spot for gender equality. This is good, I guess he wouldn't mind being dominated by a male, female, or transgender individual. He actually wasn't in class this week, so we didn't get to hear how he feels about philosopher-kings.

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The quarter is officially in full swing. Only two weeks in, but a fifth of the way through the quarter. Here's the lowdown so far. Comparative Ethnic Politics has some interesting readings, but the class might actually be kind of lame. The professor seemed to dominate the conversation even though two students were supposed to be presenting/leading discussion. Hopefully this doesn't happen

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Started TAing this week. It's been interesting so far. My first section (9:00 AM) was pretty lame since most of the people in the class room, myself included, were about ready to fall asleep. 10:00 went better just because people were actually willing to talk. 3:00 was about the same.We were supposed to be discussing the nature of political authority (what defines it? where does it come from?

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 The new quarter started today.  So far it looks to be pretty sweet.  I sit in on the PS1 lectures MWF 10:00-11:00.  Digeser basically just went over the syllabus and all that jazz.  The TA's (all 6 of us) had a meeting with him a little later on in the afternoon.  Went over what we have to cover in the next week and a halfish.  Augustine this week, anarchism next week.  It's gonna be one crazy

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Alright, I have officially upgraded to the new version of Blogger.Hopefully it doesn't screw anything up. i{content: normal !important}i{content: normal !important}i{content: normal !important}

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Bike 001 Originally uploaded by daseinschockrock. Bought a bike yesterday. She's as sweet as sweet can be. I hadn't rode a bike in years and now I find myself wanting to ride down to the beach when I should be writing on Heidegger. We'll see which one wins.

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Got this from Mike.The rules are:1. Grab the nearest book.2. Open the book to page 123.3. Find the fifth sentence.4. Post the text of the next four sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest!So, here we go. Being a grad student it just so

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Well, my first quarter at UCSB is almost over. It really is weird to think about. I'm super glad that I came here, things are going well, but they're moving so quickly. I feel like we just moved in to this apartment and already Thanksgiving and then Christmas are just around the corner. This is my favorite time of year, I just hope that I am able to slow down and enjoy some of it. The fast

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Happy Halloween everyone! We spent the past weekend in Phoenix with the Chapmen and it was grand. Got to see Frances for the first time. Pretty amazing little kid; sleeps alot and moves her limbs spastically. Basically, just like Paul but smaller. We'll be spending this weekend in San Diego. Just found out about that this evening. One of my aunts is down there right now and has a condo

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Best EverIf McDonald's still made commercials like this I'd still eat meat.

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Alright, I now officially live in Goleta, CA. I miss Brooklyn and all of my friends, but this place is pretty cool and I'm trying to make the most of it. The school itself is pretty awesome. All the kids in my program seem cool so far. I've met a few other theory students (I'm the only one coming in this year). Kaleena's up in Fresno right now taking care of my mother who is currently in a

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I'm posting this in order to push the theologian quiz off of this page. It messes up some stuff.

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I do realize that I've been slacking in the blog department. I really do apologize to my hundreds of faithful readers. There is no excuse for my actions, and I will do everything in my power to correct the wrongs that I have committed.In other news, I am in the process of editing a paper for a conference at Northwestern. It will be in February 2007 and focuses on the relationship between

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I hope this sounds alright, we had to use multiple speaker phones in order to bring this to your ears.

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I figured that if it's alright for my brother to blog while on vacation in Mammoth with his family, then there can't be anything wrong with me doing the same while up here on the 38th floor of good ol' 1166. The past two weeks have really been great as far as free entertainment goes. First, we saw Okkervil River at Castle Clinton last Thursday. That was seriously amazing. Most of the songs

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Last week was pretty uneventful, not to say that it wasn't a good one. My dad was in town for a couple days so I got to hang out with him for a little bit. We saw Mike Meyers walking down the street at one point. That was sort of exciting I suppose. Mostly because my brother loves So I Married an Axe Murderer. So I was stoked to tell him about that. We ate Burmese food that night, which is

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According to my brother everyone is doing this. I guess that means I should too. You scored as Anselm. Anselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period.He sees man's primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read 'Cur Deus Homo?'Anselm93%Augustine80%John Calvin73%J?Moltmann60%Charles

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Ok, I'm back in action. I've uploaded the images for the blog onto the UCSB server, if you actually bothered looking you may have seen that we were image free for over a month due to the cancellation of my Earthlink account. I should have this current space for a few years now.In recent news, we've been living with Mark and Brandi Thorsby for a little over a month. Things are going well with

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Hey kids. It has been a very long time since my last post. I've been pretty busy with work and all of that as of late, and have not really had the time nor the desire/energy to come on here and write anything. This isn't really going to be anything of substance -- more just an update of sorts.Anyway, I am indeed going to UCSB in the fall to study political theory. I have a TAship for one

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Sorry for the lack of recent posts, I know I was on quite a spree there. Anyway, I got my first acceptance letter for PhD programs today. It's for the University of California at Santa Barbara. So this means that I am definitely going to be continuing my schooling. Maybe not there, but at least now I know that I have at least one option. Alright, maybe more later.

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Last night President George W. Bush addressed Congress and the nation while giving his annual "State of the Union" address. There were a few things I agreed with and a few things I disagreed with. So I guess we should start with the things I thought he had correct.First off, his ideas on energy reform are amazingly progressive:Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is

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catholicworker Originally uploaded by daseinschockrock. Last night Carmen Trotta, from the New York Catholic Worker, came to speak to a group of graduate and law students from NYU and other nearby universities. While his speech wasn't necessarily the best, often times drifting off for several minutes before coming back to focus, I must say that I am and have always been impressed by this

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Fireworks Originally uploaded by daseinschockrock. Just wanted to show off this picture of paper raining from the sky in Chinatown. May not be as cool as what Tyler gets to witness in Vietnam, but we're rockin the year of the dog stateside as well.

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Kaleena and Clare hung out last night, which meant that I would be figuring out plans for myself to give them a little girl time. I ended up meeting up with Tom and some of his friends on the Lower East Side around 9:00. It was Tom, his roommate Sonia, his friend from Notre Dame Matt, Matt's girlfriend Somethingerother, and the girlfriend's roommate Whatsherface. Somethingerother and

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I finished the book a few minutes ago. Overall, a worthwhile read -- and one that can be done in about a day if you set aside the time. Real quick read, but a lot of substance there. Like I said, some good stuff and a lot of trash. The main problem is that he wants to shape Christian mythology into a universal mythology. Watts insists that because similar motifs exist in mythologies around

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I am currently reading this book by Alan Watts. I think he has a lot of good things to say; unfortunately, a lot of this is mixed in with a bunch of garbage. He presents a good outline of Christian mythology and the importance of ritual (specifically the liturgical calendar). The problems arise with the interjections of his own opinion (which has been informed by Freudian psychoanalysis [

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thanks to a remark by some random guy, i changed the banner again. hope you like it.

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umi has a new snazzy look, including a hip banner with my mug on it. in addition to this new look, exegesis and explication has been deleted. the thirty tyrants project has been abandoned for the time being. this should hopefully allow for me to focus more on publishing here. alright.

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so, adrian decided to have people post playlists to his blog. i have decide to post my explanation for choosing the songs on my playlist right here. it was not an attempt to assemble a list of my favorite songs of all time; rather, i simply wanted to create a somewhat coherent group of songs that would be a bit of a blessing to the listener.1. Golden Brown - The Stranglersbest song about heroin

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i have finished my masters degree. not really sure what this means. all i know is that i am massively in debt, overeducated, and underemployed. yep.

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alright, at tawny's request i'm starting back up. things have been crazy hectic around here recently. i'm busy applying to phd programs, just finished applying for graduation, and still need to write about 60-70 pages by the end of december. anyway, we had some pretty cool academic celebrities at the old new school last week. jurgen habermas came to speak on religion and the public sphere.

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The Wife Originally uploaded by daseinschockrock. yesterday we went with a group from our church to a concert at the cloisters museum. the museum is basically a reconstruction of several european monasteries/churches/chapels that have been integrated into a single building. the concert consisted of music from the 12th, 14th, and 15th centuries and was pretty amazing. they performed in

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The Weddin' Originally uploaded by daseinschockrock. got back from california yesterday morning. it was a great trip. saw tons of friends. saw two awesome people get hitched (and i got to be a part of the big day). big thanks to tyler and his family for loaning us the ol' sonoma. more details later, maybe.

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so it's monday. two more days till we head off to california till october tenth. today should be fairly relaxed. meeting kaleena for lunch by her work. i need to call linda (aka satan aka our landlady) about spraying the apartment today and while we're gone. i have class at 16:00. that should be good. just war theories. discussion usually goes fairly smoothly in that class. after that

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i have run out of trader joe's coffee and have now resorted to drinking instant coffee (usually reserved for sweet iced coffee treats).

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man oh man. class was crazy last night. this guy kept rambling about something that he apparently thought was relevant to the subject at hand. too bad nobody else thought it was. after about three such outbursts, the professor began cutting him off. this upset the young man and he walked up to the chalk board to begin writing his thoughts out for us all to enjoy. i really have no idea what

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it is 1:13 PM and so far i have spent the day cleaning out the refrigerator. most of you (i say this as if there are more than two people that read this) are probably not familiar with our fridge woes. you see, water drips down from the top of the fridge, gets everything wet, and collects in the vegetable crisper bins at the bottom (leaving quite uncrisp vegetables). we tried turning the

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well, maybe not. but it seems like he is a small child that runs away to camp out in the back yard. apparently he's been sick recently and my step-mother told him to go rest in "the boys' room" (the room where we normally stay while visiting). now he has taken to calling it his room and goes in there daily to sleep and watch dvd's. this seems like odd behavior for a man of 55 years. maybe

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well, it's coffee time in the lovato house and that means blogspot time. i started my final semester as an ma student last night. it was great to see people after the long, lonely summer. i'm jealous of a few people who spent the summer out of the city, especially the one who spent it in california (returning with a glorious tan). my class last night was amazing and really the reason why i

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coffee again. moka java. just a dash of sugar. i just finished reading the plague . it only took me about six months. maybe seven. i should be heading in to work soon. i need to put together two readers by the end of the week. i have some stuff to take care of around the apartment first. kaleena is bringing home a friend from her work today, so we mustn't look like slobs. we're going to

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i'm sitting here in the apartment, drinking a cup of trader joe's coffee, listening to coffeegeek podcast . yeah, maybe that is a bit much on the coffee front, but for some reason it has inspired me to start this new blog. i don't necessarily think i've grown bored with exegesis & explication , i just wanted a new outlet for non academic blogging. xanga hasn't done it for me for a while.

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