Urban Honking

Well. This movie has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I have yet to read a bad review of it, aside from my friend Claire’s excellent one. Everyone, from what I’ve read, seems to say something along the lines of “sure the story and dialogue are horrible but WHAT A GREAT MOVIE.” I am […]

I woke up at 6 filled with anxiety about all the scholarship I’m not publishing, so I got up with the intention of “working on something.” It is dark as pitch out there. If you’d told me at age 15 or so that as a grownup I’d be awakened in the middle of the night […]

– Weird…part of human experience? Have played a major role, maybe? – Nice! – ? – Disjointed ideas – a “book of the old testament” can’t be “a culture” – well, but he does talk to women. He has that long conversation with Sara about her getting pregnant – yes true – is this not […]

Today is Friday for those of us in certain academic circles, for it is Long Fall Weekend, a weird break in the middle of the semester that everyone is so excited about it might as well be Christmas. I don’t know why they have this break, but it really does feel so necessary. I feel […]

what if you clicked on every article posted in your facebook news feed what if you submitted, finally, to the overwhelming morass of links to click on, and you just slipped into it silently, and said goodbye to all your worldly affairs last night we watched the world’s end and now I don’t know what […]

It has been raining in true cats-and-dogs style this past week or so. Everyone is astounded–while as any fool knows this city is very rainy, it usually is “raining” in only the strictest sense of the word, and is more often than not basically just a fine mist. But lo, these many days it has […]

Welcome to the first day of autumn! AUTUMN HO! I did not need google to tell me it was autumn out there, but it never hurts to get confirmation for stuff you already know. Unless, I guess, that confirmation comes at a cost of 80 billion taxpayer dollars or whatever, like we’re so desperate to […]

Please enjoy my new hashtag sensation: #PushinForty. Use it to tag things like when for your birthday your husband fixes your broken sock drawer with wood glue and you are so sincerely excited when you say it is “the best birthday ever.” Or for example if you find yourself 12 browser-tabs deep in retinol cream […]

In spite of his much greater awareness of all manner of film-theoretical issues when perusing various cinemas (angles and shots; how close-ups establish protagonist status; etc. etc.), I nonetheless turn out to be reliably better at spotting certain kinds of purely NARRATIVE cues than my old man. This is because he doesn’t care about stories. […]

Things I Wish Were True a sweatlodge behind my house that is made of fragrant wood and that has “good vibes” a house that is mine with old wood and bright rooms and a tree you can see outside the window and a desk in a room with a wooden door you can close floor […]