#feburary 12

Hugs other than do not matter; what matters is whether you have a lover, partner, employee, friend, parent, children, or a stranger. Happy Valentine's Day

In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am.

The spoon which was melted scrapes against the bowl which was melted also. No one else is around.

Where have they gone to, brother and sister, mother and father? Off along the shore, perhaps. Their clothes are still on the hangers,

their dishes piled beside the sink, which is beside the woodstove with its grate and sooty kettle,

every detail clear, tin cup and rippled mirror. The day is bright and songless,

the lake is blue, the forest watchful. In the east a bank of cloud rises up silently like dark bread.

I can see the swirls in the oilcloth, I can see the flaws in the glass, those flares where the sun hits them.

I can’t see my own arms and legs or know if this is a trap or blessing, finding myself back here, where everything

in this house has long been over, kettle and mirror, spoon and bowl, including my own body,

including the body I had then, including the body I have now as I sit at this morning table, alone and happy,

bare child’s feet on the scorched floorboards (I can almost see) in my burning clothes, the thin green shorts

A Day In The Life - 12th February 1964: The Beatles perform at Carnegie Hall in New York.

After an overnight stop in Washington, DC, The Beatles return to New York City for two concerts at Carnegie Hall.

The Beatles are scheduled to give two 34-minute concerts at Carnegie Hall, beginning at 7:45pm and 11:15pm. Backstage they are greeted by guests including Shirley Bassey, and are given a gold disc by Swan Records for selling a million copies of She Loves You.

Tickets for the concerts had gone on sale at the box office on 27 January, and had completely sold out by the following day. 2,900 people see each of the two shows, which are promoted by New York impresario Sid Bernstein. 

"Carnegie Hall was terrible! The acoustics were terrible and they had all these people sitting on the stage with us and it was just like Rockefeller’s children backstage and it all got out of hand. It wasn’t a rock show; it was just a sort of circus where we were in cages. We were being pawed and talked at and met and touched, backstage and onstage. We were just like animals." - John Lennon

A large portion of our discussion of danah boyd's lecture was devoted to advertisement. Specifically she talks about Target and it's tracking of purchases.

Tumblr is essentially ad-free, so there is not as much of an ad-tailoring based on past clicks (as is the case for many websites). The only things that pop up as far as advertisements were a recent addition of "promoted posts." These are posts that are integrated into a user's dash and appear just as any other post. However the ones I have seen are displayed by the official Tumblr for the upcoming movie The Great Gatsby. They are simply promotional pictures that can be reblogged and therefore reach a wider audience.