Urban Honking

Second-to-last batch! – great intro, I’m hooked! – interesting distinctions – yes, he was synesthetic too I believe – wow – kind of like Wagner’s whole Gesamtkunstwerk deal – when? – yeah! – confusing! History by definition looks to the past – citation? – ? – well, you don’t have to pay for influences, just […]

I briefly deleted that existential panic post from before but then I was like, screw it, it’s right that they should know what a whiner I am. I feel better now because I got my course assignments, and even though they are terrifying, it’s better to have specific knowns you can start grappling with. My […]

I am a fool for not doing any grading. I am a fool for not setting up my evals, writing my final, or writing my final review sheet. The only item on my to-do list that I’ve done is “book haircut.” I look like Jeremiah Johnson. Ten years ago we watched that movie and we […]

I should be working on an abstract I need to submit by June; I should be writing a new book chapter; I should be exercising; instead I’m not doing any of those things. Last night I slept at Katy’s house because she and her housemate are both gone and they needed someone to dog-sit for […]

Answering questions from the comments! Feel free to ask me questions whenever you want. Also don’t forget about my Advice column, always available for confidential problem solving! 1. Why didn’t I like The Marriage Plot? I’M GLAD YOU ASKED! Well, I’ve been scared to write about it because I know I will devolve into Crazy […]

– tight intro! – nice – single-space block quotes – Fun! – Wow! 99?! – dangling modifier – did he deny this? – good point – nice title! – Great names – I love this – match made in heaven – yes, really what is the diff between the modernists and Frank Zappa? guitars? – […]

Shopping malls, by their nature, are a sort-of false optimism. A constructed reality. It is revealing to bear witness to actual reality organically consuming the fictitious. This series of images and short article by Matt Stopera on Buzzfeed is quite interesting. Thanks to Art Chantry for posting on Facebook.

Well there it is. I GOT A JOB. It is a school in Massachusetts. No, not that one. No, not that one either!!!! Probably not that one either. It’s a big research university in a small quaint town and I am delighted. After all these years, after all this heartbreak and shame, to finally have […]

I’ve been simultaneously reading Keith Thomas’s magisterial and canonic Religion and the Decline of Magic and Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch. They complement one another really well, obviously, and my mind is now a swamp of feminist rage and sorrow but also that kind of speculative obsession where you can’t stop thinking about medieval […]

Sorry for my extended absence! I have been busy writing rude letters to the New Yorker. Exciting stuff coming soon but in the meantime: – Good title! – excellent – glorious! – !!! HEAPS OF MOUNTAINS! – confusing–the women spent their time educating young girls? – kind of confusing to bring up music but then […]