January 2012
44 posts
Truth: New Years blows. →
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words...”
– T.S. Eliot
Last night, I dreamt I wrote a remarkable poem. I tried to catch the words when I woke up, but they skittered away as I grabbed at the tail end. It was all abstractions and sweat and ink.
December 2011
40 posts
sometimes, you have to start with training wheels. →
okay, time to start writing again.
Have Yourself a Retro Little Christmas →
The little boy with arms so small saved pennies, though very poor, to buy himself a Christmas tree, which he’d never had before.
You know what’s NOT going to happen this holiday season? You are not going to ruin it again, the way you did last year. No sir. I will not allow it. (asshole)
Sometimes i write academic stuff: feminist edition →
That time I went crazy and read too much Margaret Atwood and Pat Lowther, and became uber feminist. And wrote a big paper on it.
“Being privately spiritual but not religious just doesn’t interest me. There is...”
– Spiritual but Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me.
Kim Jong-Un Privately Doubting He's Crazy Enough... →
nevver:
Kim Jong-un, heir apparent to North Korea’s highest government post, expressed doubt that he was sufficiently out of his mind to succeed his father, longtime dictator Kim Jong-il.
Six Reasons Why I Am A Pleased Kitten Tonight:
1. I got an A on my Shakespeare paper “Irrational Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
2. I just killed my Shakespeare final so dead. So very dead. Woot!
3. I have a huge glass of red wine in front of me
4. I have the Christmas episode of Hart of Dixie in front of me (don’t judge)
5. My cat is extra soft tonight
6. I’m going to Seattle in two days!
Straight from the vault of grade 12 creative... →
a haiku for you!
We’ve got a new regular at the Watershed: he is a David Bowie impersonator. He spends his time watching David Bowie performances online. I’m not joking.
The Way Things Are - Fiona Apple
“Neoliberalism, put crudely, refers to the doctrine that profits should rule as...”
– Wired Magazine, 2010
WatchMy friend is talented. She does film stuff.
inmoredetail:
A compilation of footage, documenting the gathering of great friends and amazing food.
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect...”
– Tom Robbins
I saw Goddard’s Weekend last night, and boy was it bizzare. Car crashes, cannibalism, poets….a myriad of oddity in true Jean-Luc fashion.
This is what Pacific Cinemateque has to say about it:
“A self-described “film found on the scrapheap,” Weekend offers a savagely funny, surreal epic satire of our car-crash culture hurtling towards its apocalypse. Godard channels Buñuel...
[nameless] →
that is what i am
“Ainsley’s mouth opened and closed, fishlike, as though she was trying to...”
– The Edible Woman
I don’t know if it’s the abundance of Margaret Atwood I’ve been reading, or the fact that my last week has consisted solely of writing about feminist literary theory, but lately I’ve been feeling like I’ve been consumed.
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right →
“Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.
But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.”
This is one of the most moving stories I’ve heard in a...
There's an Icelandic bakery in Philladelphia! →