Both men also had large tomb chapels at Sheikh Abd-el-Qurna on the Theban west bank (TT 29 in the case of Amenemopet); indeed Sennefer had two tombs (TT 96 upper and lower) in order to accommodate several different female contemporaries, probably including wives and sisters. The elder daughter of Sennefer, Muttuy, shown on statutary and in the lower part of tomb TT 96, appears to have married a man called Kenamun who succeeded Sennefer as mayor of Thebes. This couple, Muttuy and Kenamun, were contemporaries of Amenhotep III and were interred in tomb TT 162.
Is it any wonder that I have no recollection whatsoever of reading this passage the first time through?
UPDATE: Aislinn pointed me to this pamphlet on mummies from the Field Museum. At 18 pages of clear and informative text, it weighs in at somewhere around ten times as interesting on a per-page basis as the Oxford History.
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Carissa’s Wierd was active from the late 1990s until 2003. The constant core of the band consisted of Mat Brooke (vocals and guitar), Jenn Ghetto (vocals and guitar), and Sarah Standard (violin). Their most frequent drummer was Ben Bridwell; Jeff Hellis regularly played keyboards and accordion. Other performers listed on album or song credits include Gilden Tunador (keyboards), Robin Perringer (drums), Sera Cahoone (drums), Thomas Wright (tour drums), Sam Beam (backing vocals), and Creighton Barrett (tour drums?).
Albums
CW recorded three conventional-format studio albums: Ugly But Honest, You Should Be at Home Here, and Songs About Leaving. In support of a summer 2003 tour, they produced a rarities collection, sold at their concerts: Scrap Book, which includes ncludes four inspired new songs, and five covers, two remixes, and a demo, all uninspired. After returning to Seattle at the end of the tour and announcing plans to disband, they played a farewell show at the Crocodile Cafe in November 2003. Nine songs from that set, along with three further unreleased studio recordings, were assembled into I Before E.
Bootlegs, Singles, and Rarities
An unknown fan taped CW’s sow in Omaha during the 2003 tour. There are a few moments of feedback and some loud chatter, but the audio quality is generally good and the performances strong.
“You Should Be Hated Here” (from You Should Be At Home Here) was released as a 7”; the B-side was a cover of Morrisey’s “Suedehead.”
Other songs by CW kicking around on various compilations include a cover of Suede’s “Digging a Hole” a cover of Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated,” and an original(?) song entitled “Where Are You Now?.”
CW played a live four-song set on KEXP in 2002 and KEXP taped a live performance from the Capitol Hill Block Party in 2001.
Jenn and Mat performed as guest artists on a rem-mix of The Six Parts Seven’s “On Marriage.”
YouTube has live versions of “Sympathy Bush” and “One Night Stand” (Jenn and Mat), plus the otherwise unavailable “Winter in Sea.”
Other Projects
Mat Brooke and Ben Bridwell founded Band of Horses (originally just Horses), by far the most prominent band in the Carissa’s Wierd ecology. Their first album, Everything All the Time, has much a stronger rock sound than CW’s work. Band of Horses then relocated to South Carolina, minus Brooke. Their second album, Cease to Begin, shows essentially no traces of any CW influence.
Mat then founded another band, Grand Archives, which released the eponymous The Grand Archives in 2008. The band’s sound is hard to characterize, as it changes substantially from song to song. “Sleepdriving” could almost be a CW song; others, others, such as “The Crime Window,” and “Miniature Birds” seem to come out of an entirely different musical universe, one that has a horn section and major keys. Guest performers on individual songs include Jenn and Sarah.
While working with CW, Jenn Ghetto also pursued a solo project, S. Her 2001 album, Sadstyle, features the distinctly lo-fi self-recorded solo guitar/vocals aesthetic familiar from early CW songs like “Blankets Stare.” The lyrics are confrontational and confessional; the overall effect is harsh, intimate, and sometimes affecting. Her second album as S, Puking and Crying, goes even further into electronics and tape-effects territory.
Sera Cahoone, sometime drummer for CW, Band of Horses, and Grand Archives, has released two albums under her own name: Sera Cahoone and Only as the Day Is Long. They’re both warm, quiet, and soothing, featuring a small acoustic ensemble with a slightly country twang.
In addition to supporting guest work for Sera Cahoone and Grand Archives, Sarah Standard has performed for the electronica group Plan B.
]]>Compared with the “normal” rate of injury for boys who play sports, girls who play sports get hurt a lot. Umm, I mean compared with the rate for boys who play sports other than football. Girls tear their A.C.L.s five times as often as boys. Ouch. Tear tear tear. Why are we letting girls play sports when they’ll regret it later?
The article also points out that studies have shown that doing specific warm-up exercises cuts the risk of A.C.L. tears between four and ten times—that is, to a rate somewhere possibly as low as half that for boys. But it proceeds to dismiss this possibility, because “It’s hard to fight for equal rights while also broadcasting alarm about injuries that might suggest women are too delicate to play certain games or to play them at a high level of intensity.”
Why, oh, why can’t I have a New York Times that doesn’t make me want to throw the magazine section against the wall every time it writes about sex, gender, or feminism?
]]>In addition to our own panel — Rights & Responsibilities for Software Programs?, the program looks great. Among the highlights:
]]>The thought of filmmakers trying to capture Norbit’s lightning in a bottle once more is chilling enough to consider, but if they pull it off, summer entertainment in the future may be targeted exclusively to single-celled organisms. Excellent news for Protococcus algae, which currently can’t get enough of Deal Or No Deal.
But did you know that Mel was real?
Also, did you know that the LGP-30 used non-standard hexadecimal? Perhaps you are asking yourself how hexadecimal could possibly be non-standard: there are sixteen digits, right? Well, yes, but in our modern computers, those digits are:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Whereas, on the LGP-30, they were:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 F G J K Q W
Makes sense, right? It’s related to the layout of the LGP’s Flexowriter—you can see the lower-case letters continuing the stride of the decimal digits—though that layout is itself a baroque marvel that has the same character serve as a lower-case “l” and as the digit “1”.
With such an unlikely sequence of letters, one needs a mnemonic. According to Wikipedia, the canonical one was “FiberGlass Javelins Kill Quite Well.” But according to M. Mitchell Waldrop’s biography, J.C.R. Licklider preferred “For God and Jesus Christ, Quit Worrying.” The observant reader will have noticed that the mnemonic only works if you treat “Christ” as though it started with a K.
]]>Someone’s going to ask me about this tomorrow, I can feel it in the pit of my stomach …
]]>Up in northeast Ohio
Back in nineteen fifty-two
President Harry Truman
Seized Youngstown Sheet and Tube
There’d been some labor unrest
And Harry was afraid of more
He said he needed the tanks and bombs
To fight the Korean war
There in Youngstown
There in Youngstown
And John Yoo don’t you forget
What was said in Youngstown
Well the case reached the Supreme Court
Where it was argued well
And the court handed down handed down a ruling
Saying he couldn’t seize the mills
The president’s inherent powers
Whatsoever they may be
Must yield to the will of Congress
In our constitutional democracy
That was Youngstown
That was Youngstown
And John Yoo don’t you forget
What was said in Youngstown
Well John Yoo came to OLC
Where he wrote a memo or two
His reasoning, now, it was slipshod
But it did what they wanted it to do
He said the president had powers
That stemmed from Article II
Powers to hurt, and maim, and mutilate
“If we do it, it’s not torture,” said John Yoo.
Where was Youngstown?
Where was Youngstown?
Now John Yoo why’d you forget
To talk about Youngstown?
From the waterboard room at Gitmo
To the cells of Abu Ghraib
To the CIA’s hidden prisons
The story’s always the same
The men in charge, they flout the law
Telling themselves the world’s changed
They found a lawyer to write what they wanted
One dumb enough to ignore the case …
Of Youngstown
Of Youngstown
Now John Yoo, he went and forgot
To write about Youngstown
When he retired he got his tenure back
And returned to Berkeley’s sunny climes
But someday justice will come and take him
To face trial for war crimes
]]>Groups for and against abortion rights expressed outrage over the affair.
The Court collectively merits lots of credit for relatively speedy work on such an important and challenging case. I was worried state would might have to wait until June for an opinion, but it is now clear that the Justices prioritized getting this case completed so that the urgent business of the death penalty can move forward.
Important, yes, but “urgent?”
]]>For example, we need to retire the example of a consumer ordering Coke and the retailer silently delivering Pepsi instead from trademark law. This example is so distracting because we already know that the retailer can’t do this—at minimum, such a delivery is a breach of warranty and perhaps even a fraud. Trademark law does provide producers with a remedy (more on this in a moment), but from a consumer protection standpoint, what does trademark liability add to the analysis? Personally, I don’t think it adds much.
Sorry, Eric. I’m going to keep using it. And not just because it makes proponents of the trademark use doctrine uncomfortable. I’m going to keep using it because this is core trademark doctrine, and if we lose sight of it while arguing about search keywords and co-shelving and popup ads, we’re throwing out the baby while keeping the bathwater.
The retailer who delivers Pepsi when the customer ordered Coke is engaged in passing-off (or, for the more poetically inclined, palming-off). This is the central evil that trademark is meant to prevent. Whether you think that trademark is about preventing consumer confusion, or about encouraging investments in goodwill, or about protecting businesses from unethical competition, this kind of silent substitution is bad, bad, bad.
Even confining ourselves to consumer protection, this is a case in which we want competitors to have a remedy. We could call that remedy “trademark,” or we could call it “false advertising,” but we expect competitors to be substantially more vigilant in looking out for passing-off than governmental actors would be. If we’re prepared to throw in the towel on trademark law here, I humbly submit we ought to be prepared to throw it in everywhere.
The point of the beverage-substitution cases is simply to show that retailer silence can be all but indistinguishable from retailer speech in terms of its effect on consumers. It shouldn’t matter whether the waiter says, “One Coke, coming right up,” or not—and it doesn’t. That’s why I’m skeptical of the trademark use doctrine, at least as it’s applied to search engines and other online actors. Too often the analysis seems to turn on arbitrary characteristics of the technical configuration at issue; where do bytes representing the mark show up, and who sees them? 1-800 Contacts comes to mind as a case that may well be right on its facts, but still manages to draw a line that’s almost incoherent.
I don’t like most of the reasoning by analogy that’s dominating these debates. Offline metaphors are dangerous in reasoning about online trademark law because they make lawyers and courts get the facts wrong. This is like a billboard, they say, when it’s not like a billboard at all. But—and this is something that Eric has been very good at—we need to keep the offline analogues to online activities in mind, because otherwise, online trademark law becomes dangerously untethered, a collection of ill-justified sui generis rules that lead to inconsistent and unstable results.
Eric is exactly right that it would be a very good thing to have some better-understood limiting doctrines. He’s also exactly right that trademark use is more promising than many traditional trademark defenses precisely because it puts the burden on the plaintiff. And he’s even more exactly right when he says that “[T]he trademark use in commerce doctrine can serve the requisite channeling function, but it doesn’t do it very well.” And I’ll definitely support his call for the Goldman Act of 2025.
But don’t go trying to sub out beverage substitution, okay?
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