Urban Honking

Hey, anybody need any ADVICE? I’ve got so much!! Way too much! Take some! It is summertime here, which means 80 degrees, which means everyone’s like “oh my god it’s so hot” and we all draw the curtains and lie on the floor and/or go rushing down to the river with a whole watermelon. The […]

Well! In a marathon late-night session I finally finished Stefan Zweig’s famous biography of Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman. As his post-colonic suggests, Zweig’s primary thesis is that the Queen was a thoroughly mediocre woman made great by historical events. He situates his biography in between the über-royalist conception of Antoinette as […]

MEMORY LANE Well, yesterday marked our official ten year anniversary. I’m not usually much of one for making a big deal out of anniversaries–and you know those couples that, like, celebrate their six month anniversary and stuff? Reminds me of the Onion article about the nation gearing up for the one year anniversary of two […]

Hi friends It’s been about two months since my last post following the 100 x 100 event at PICA. I aspire to be as productive as I once was, but the level of energy is slow in coming back.  I wrote this note on May 18th, the one year anniversary of my bike accident, to friends […]

Yes, I can’t find that entry either! I must’ve deleted it but I don’t know why. Maybe it also included ramblings about my hatred of procreation and/or death and dying in contemporary America, the two topics I am most wishy-washy about posting/deleting entries concerning. But my thoughts on Lolly Willowes in summation: – it’s like […]

Everyone keeps asking me if I’m “all done,” and I say “yes!” and then they say “are you really all done?” and I say “well, not really.” I am still getting grade-grubbing emails and still getting emails from my department supervisor and stuff. Haven’t yet filed this stack of papers or put my big class […]

– seems like 2 abrupt subject changes…. – not sure what this ‘way’ is – but not women?! People are crazy! – well, but the ballerina does this also – “the audience” is the subject of this sentence – incorrect quote. I know because this is from my article I wrote – yes! Another comparison […]

– Fabulous intro! – What belief? – Muddy – Stay away from superlatives like this – Muddy! – unnecessary hyperbole – I wonder how much religion plays part–embarrassing, shameful, you can’t be buried in the church yard, etc. – redundant – nice footnote! – dangling modifier – dangling modifier! – need to specify whose argument/vocab […]

Two responses to comments! First of all, I wouldn’t know about ET because I refuse to watch that movie ever again. Ultimate nightmares of childhood! I don’t think I’ve seen it since I was maybe 12. I assume I would be annoyed by it at the same time as I was re-traumatized and crying when […]

To answer Kerry’s question, I actually ended up not liking The Terror very much. Its ending, I feel, was a major cop-out, and basically I got tired of it long before the ending even finally came around. The Victorian rave on the ice was awesome, and the opening was awesome, and the rest was dumb, […]