May 2008
1 post
the gospel of consumption...
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962
April 2008
1 post
shakesville's 7th reason for Hillary
which I LOVE: 7) Because she’s a woman. Yeah, I said that, too. And I think “because he’s a person of color” is a perfectly fine reason to vote for Obama, for the record. As I said in my bad reasons post, I don’t believe any woman would be better than any man—or any person of color would be better than any white person, for that matter. Condoleezza Rice is the...
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
2 posts
Treehouse ruins
“So the next time you come upon an abandoned treehouse site, you might give some thought to the fact that you’re standing in the ruins of someone’s childhood. The children who used the site no longer exist: they’re grownups now, living somewhere else, disposing more rationally of their belongings.” http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/19/treehouse-ruins-the.html...
Zombies
George Romero is at it again. Night of the Living Dead (1968) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Day of the Dead (1985) … Diary of the Dead (2008) George Romero’s Dead series presents one of the most astute social satires ever to come from Walking Dead. And This article from Inside Higher Ed is pretty cool, as evidenced by the following: “I think zombie movies want to portray the...
January 2008
9 posts
an endorsement
Space is on the verge of becoming an adventure again, Windows Vista is flopping, and Mario Kart will be out for the Wii soon. I think the future will be okay. - the conclusion for a post endorsing Barack Obama, from webcomic xkcd
today's Hamlet
“And therefore as a stranger give it welcome,” says Hamlet. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Library of Congress on flickr
The Library of Congress is posting to flickr! The first couple of slides focus on WW II American women riveters, which is pretty fascinating to see. Not to mention the rural scenes of the 1940s: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ And while this has nothing to do with the Library of Congress, its still totally fascinating. Oh how I wish I were skiing in the Colorado Rockies RIGHT...
Just cos
I like how this is said: “I do not regard the New Testament as a historical or supernatural document. I do, however, regard it as one of the most compelling articulations of an integral worldview that the West has produced, and I am dismayed that you would be so untroubled by its calls for living with integrity.”
Reasons to someday embark for Asheville, NC (nos....
1. The Asheville Mushroom Club: 2. Self magazine labeled it the “Happiest City for Women” (Oct 2002) 3. It has history. Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire there at Highland Hospital.
I found a great new blog today written by a PhD candidate at Irvine on the topics of ‘literature, philosophy, and popular culture with the project of political and cultural change in America.’ In this post he cleverly intones an imaginary conversation between John Paul Sartre and Jean Genet, in which the final moments end here: ”I hate having to go to sleep. It’s like walking...
Currently reading
Jesus Land, a Memoir by Julia Scheeres The vital stats: voice in present tense, white girl growing up in the mid 80s in rural Indiana two adopted black brothers. a homelife that honed a sense of Irony. This book uses to frame the plot an interracial, religiously fundamentalist (read: dysfunctional) family, but really its all about Julia and her adolescent responses to these. Julia sneaks swigs of...
zombies, woot!
and it turns out this is going to be a most unholy time suck on our newly acquired Christmas Wii: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_4 This ain’t yr brother’s playstation, baby.
December 2007
2 posts
Lady Ligeia
“And now slowly opened the eyes of the figure which stood before me. “Here then, at least,” I shrieked aloud, “can I never —can I never be mistaken —these are the full, and the black, and the wild eyes —of my lost love —of the lady —of the LADY LIGEIA.” A few scenes from a film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia are...
Movie quote of the day
“Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!” - Blue Velvet
November 2007
6 posts
List: Writers trying to write
Ernest Hemingway: A moveable feast Murial Sparks:Loitering with intent George Orwell: Down and out in paris and london
Look at that fucking bone!
http://www.nocountryforoldmen-themovie.com/
Free Rice
I love this! Thank you Stacie! So far I’m at 38 and I’ve donated 460 grains of rice.
maps like novels
Listen here (Act I: Sight): http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1211 See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisamericanlife/sets/72157602618985796/
a new biography of raymond chandler
A reminder that I want to check out this new biography of Raymond Chandler. There is something indelibly romantic about LA in the 40s and 50s. A distinctly American alliance of highway sleaze and hollywood glam. And there’s Chandler, who wrote great gritty novels and helped Alfred Hitchcock write screen plays. According to this article, Raymond Chandler prefers the Gimlet to the Martini...
Mortality, according to Roddy Doyle
“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man’s chest hair. It wasn’t worth it.”-the Dog
October 2007
17 posts
Happy Halloween!
Vintage Victorian photography sets
I’m particularly attracted to the early post-mortem pics. Hauntingly strange and beautiful. http://www.flickr.com/photos/victorian_edwardian_era/ But what’s with having to sign in to Flickr now?
Wil Wheaton
Remember him? Well he has his own blog (who doesn’t, right.) and this is really worth reading. It won’t take long, I promise. He is a writer. And I love his posts. And now I must look out for him playing a comic book creator (swoon!) on Numb3rs.
shred or die
Reminding myself to check this out later: http://www.shredordie.com/
Eating and Reading
What more is there? There are a surfeit of titles out right now centering on eating. I love to eat, and I love to read. A holy union, of sorts: The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan Our food bear little resemblance to its organic state. It’s a post-ag society, baby. Eat, Pray, Love Despite the fact that this is an Oprah selection, I’ve heard its worthwhile from both random...
goose anus
Persepolis has been made into a movie and opens December 25. This is a lovely comic written by Marjane Sartrapi on growing up during the revolution in Iran. Reader (Stacie), you would love it. Deborah Solomon interviews her for the NYT magazine. Here’s the best part, aside from the instance where she says she’s going to move to the one country left that allows smoking with the rest...
axe vs. dove
ugh. definitely think it’s time to give axe the ax.
Intros only.
Best drum/solo intro EVER: Hot for Teacher Best rip off of Bauhaus: Oceansize Most Haunted: Haunted (when the minutes drag) Favorite of caliope collectors everywhere: obla di obla dah (mcartney’s beetles)
Day 16
As I mentioned earlier, I’m reading Huckleberry Finn in bits thanks to DailyLit. (Which is brilliant, btw and a blessing for us deskies.) I wish I would have read this in early adolescence, instead of late adolescence. Well! Huck just took off in a found canoe down the Mississippi by moonlight after faking his own death! Here he is after being on the river awhile in the pitch night: ...
domestic arts, c. 1880
This may just be one of the most niche, if not fascinating, independent digital libraries I’ve come across. Sponsored by Michigan State Univeristy Libraries, Feeding America features several old cookbooks and domestic guides digitized for full text perusal. Totally fascinating for insight into American women’s domestic history. I may even try to make Emma Ewing’s Iowa Brown Bread...
Last Night
I was asked who I’m currently reading, and this person was looking for contemporary authors. I had to think about it, despite my reading a little something daily. In all actuality, this is less about the ability to compose this list as it is my inability to recall something point blank. Only when I am lying in bed later that night will I flesh out a reply at which point the irrelevance ...
How does any pedagogy avoid politics?
Stanley Fish writes a review of “Indoctrinate U,” a documentary positing the University’s tendency to confuse political advocacy with teaching. Here.
Songs in the key of life
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen fate up against your will through the thick and thin he will wait until you give yourself to him. So this song is about vampirism, right, but you already knew that, didn’t you, smart ones and is a favorite of the local community radio station around October 31. But I have other associations. I’m in an inconceivably tiny, uncomfortably cramped...
Finalist List
Have you read any of these? I haven’t. I might, someday. However, I haven’t read a NBA winner since Julia Glass in 2002, sooo… http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007.html Wouldn’t it be cool to have a name like Mischa or Francine? Especially Francine. I love Francine.
'Goin' Brazillian'
We, namely me and a bunch of brothers, had a great time at Michael’s 21st birthday party. we ended up, naturally, at uncle bill’s at 3.30 in the am after gambling and guzzling booze. we’re bringing him up right, that one. He was falling asleep at the table for all the weed he had smoked. oh well, at least he wasn’t drinking coffee out of the wrong end of the cup like the...
Songs in the key of life.
So Alive Love and Rockets Sixteen and sitting in the back seat of Robb L’s Ford Escort with my boyfriend. Robb was one of the first to actually start driving and have access to a car. Was it 4th of July? The song’s popularity was beginning to wain, but still it would surface every now and then on the FM. This was the early 90s. I was in love and there it was. And this one’s...
DailyLit
I just discovered DailyLit. I’m reading Huckleberry Finn, a bit at a time. It’s going to take 137 days. This from today, and why I will make it through all 137 days: I went up to my room with a piece of candle, and put it on the table. Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn’t no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was...
April 2007
2 posts
Kurt Vonnegut, 11 Nov. 1922- 11 Apr. 2007
From Vonnegut via the NYT: “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies - ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ “ ~ Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater a...
