Rule, Brittaniea! Gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your mind
I’m back
The trip was great fun. In Paris, Jimmy Buffet stood in front of me in line to buy a CD after a performance by the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. He was wearing a beret (dork) and was shorter, fatter and greyer than I would have imagined. In London, C and I passed Ricky Gervais on the [...]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
As I said earlier, we caught a performance of The Spaghetti Western Orchestra at a tiny little sit-down venue in Paris on our last day there. They are amazing and it was a wonderful way to end our week in the City of Lights. SWO will be in Texas next month. They’re playing in College [...]
Starlet’s suicide highlights plight of women in Korea
But since her body was found on Oct. 2, an apparent suicide, she has become a symbol of the difficulties women face in this deeply conservative yet technologically savvy society. Incessant online gossip appears to have been largely to blame for her death. But it’s also clear that public life as a single, working, divorced [...]
More love for Michelle
Deepak Chopra on what Sarah Palin represents (via Ariel Gore): In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of “the other.” For millions of Americans, Obama triggers [...]
Nonsense!
Nonsense! from Brittanie on Vimeo. “Look! A puppy!” God. (Filmed in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin. For the record, my husband doesn’t really have sausage fingers, as can be evidenced by the last few seconds of the video.)
Family Kleenex
Susie Bright reprints an amazing short story by Briandaniel Oglesby.
Bring the Weapons
Bring the Weapons from Andrew Laker on Vimeo. My long-time friend and all-round creative person Butch Laker has finished his documentary on underground wrestling (wrasslin’) in Indiana and has set it free online. Click here to learn more about the bloodiest, strangest and most fear-inducing film on wrestling you’ll ever see. If you like it, [...]
Stupid day job
Oh lordy, this makes me LOL.
How I spent my morning
Watching a 90-minute History Channel documentary about the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the worst natural disaster in US History. Today marks one month since Hurricane Ike hit Galveston. (Via MeFi).
I think I fell in love with Berlin
There is one particular image-memory. A square, the grass was green like a velvet Christmas dress and the sky was blue and cold. I sat on a low brick wall. Behind me were ancient marble buildings, the only clouds in the sky. It was still morning, and the yellow warm of sunlight shone from the [...]
Levi Stubbs
Composer of one of my favorite songs.
Jury Duty
The case was a real doozy. Domestic assault, and the woman recanted her story following the man’s arrest. I made it to voir dire. I thought I knew what to expect, but I was wrong. The DA, an extremely good-looking 30-something with a Carolinan drawl and a bow-tie around his neck, asked the pool questions [...]
Sleeping beauty
In the days after Ike, when bundles of tree branches still lined my street and the backyard next door was in a state of disarray, C directed me to look outside, where I saw (through the limbs and leaves that remained) a squirrel, asleep on the ledge of my neighbor’s upstairs window. It’s head was [...]
David Sedaris
Read my review of the evening at Houstonist.
The Archive
The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo. Linked from Butch, a short (7-minute) documentary about the largest private record collection in the world.
Have a little common sense
My list of books I want to read grows exponentially with each book I check off the list. New rule: If a book is shitty, or boring, or too cliched to be enjoyed, I do not have to finish it. There are too many books and too little time.
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