No DVR! That is sad, msbelle.

Gar, I'm just saying that the things that bind a group together vary. If you've met ethnic group X, you know they're different from your ethnic group Y. But I do think of humanity as an ethnic group, and when you meet ethnic group Z, you may be more like them than X, or less, and your view of humanity expands, and your classifications also shift.

I don't think we're really doing much other than semantic headbutting. All I believe is that there's always an us. A really big us. An us that says "Humans. Group." And then you meet Martians and think "Whoa! Them!" But then there's a "Sentient beings. Group." Then you meet the dudes from Alpha Centauri, and it shifts again.

I don't have to like the Martians, or think they're other than pillaging ne'er do wells to expand one of the uses to include them. The Alpha Centauri might look at all of the Solars as a homogenous "them" while we consider ourselves heterogenous but still "us."

In other news, I taught Intro Krav this morning which is ninety minutes of talk, pep, and otherwise intimidating and seducing people who haven't signed up yet. Over half my class signed up, so I feel good about it. Then I taught a level 4 by myself, which is the first time I've done it officially. And it went pretty well too.

After that, lunch with a friend from out of town.

I am beyond tired, so there will be curling up with Anansi Boys and Crockett and Tubbs in my future.

So I was just poking around on the internets to see what was going on in LA this weekend and found this:

"Meet the Grunion"

Saturday night, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium leads visitors to a nearby beach to watch grunion make sweet, slimy love on the beach (bow chicka bow wow).

Sat | Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen White Dr., San Pedro | (310) 548-7562

When did a Buffista start writing for this site?

Man, Saturday Night Live was made for Tivo. This way, when you hit FF as soon as a sketch gets boring, you can watch the whole thing in like seven mintues.

ita - I agree semantics. Yeah, for non-sociopaths there is always an "us" - we human beings, or we sentient beings when we finally meet the ganymedians. But don't think that is an ethnic group because nobody is outside it. "American Indian" or "First Nation" or whatever is definitely an ethinic group - a social contruction, and mostly not chosen by the constructed to boot. That social construction did not exist pre-invasion. "We humans" is not the same thing. An ethnic group or nationality is a division; we are "we humans" but some of us are this type of human and other that. It could be looked upo as a type of shared hallucination with real consequences as gift with purchase.

Today I bought comics, curtains, a 12.5" sauté pan, and sexy pictures to hang in my bathroom. All within maybe 3 blocks. Yay for big city living.

how did it become 8:30. My day VANISHED.

Today I bought comics, curtains, a 12.5" sauté pan, and sexy pictures to hang in my bathroom. All within maybe 3 blocks. Yay for big city living.

Details, details. How far have you gotten, watching the Veronica Mars series, shrift?

How far have you gotten, watching the Veronica Mars series, shrift?

I'm only through the first three episodes of season two. My roommate probably won't kill me if I watch more without her...

Gar, I asked "what do you call?" I didn't ask "what's the name of the ethnic group that?"

So if you tell me that the people in the group I'm asking about resist an ethnic label, I pretty much don't care. I'm asking about what you call the now-Canadian people that came over that land bridge and scattered and settled and were here before the Europeans sailed over. That's all. You can or can not consider it an ehtnic group. I call it a group, and wonder how to identify it semantically.

We need to hold a Chicago'istas Welcome Shrift type event.