Rule, Brittaniea! Gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your mind
I can spot a lie from a mile away
I found this funny little post, 5 Things You Should Know Before Dating a Journalist, to be accurate and entertaining. And No. 3 is mostly true.
On editorial license
As I mentioned yesterday, I have had some shitty editors in my life. I have also had some great ones. I think I’ve cried in front of just about every one of them. My current editors are pretty awesome — so awesome that I have sent a letter to their bosses and their bosses’ bosses [...]
I have this rule, see
I referenced the Bechdel Test in a longform essay test today about the plight of the female protagonist in Leslie Fiedler’s pattern of the male narrative. I am awesome.
Is it weird that I think Junichiro Koizumi is atrractive?
I am in the depths of finals, desperately trying to finish up two papers before 5 p.m. today. Only then can I emerge from my dungeon, covered in grime and pale from lack of sunlight. One paper is about sexual tourism and the other is about something I haven’t quite figured out yet, which sucks [...]
Two hearts, two hearts
The Tacita Dean kick continues, unabated. I was going to start by bringing up the one thing in your work that I know has influenced my own work, which is the green ray, because I put that little bit of dialogue in Middlesex about people talking about a green ray, which I learned about from [...]
Hester Prynne, the first riot grrrl
From The Scarlet Letter* Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind, with reference to the whole race of womanhood. Was existence worth accepting, even to the happiest among them? As concerned her own individual existence, she had long ago decided in the negative, and dismissed the point as settled. A tendency to [...]
Adventure is but a collection of detours
My favorite class this semester is called Travel Literature and in spite of the fact that one of the assigned books was Eat, Pray, Love the rest of the class is fun, stimulating and interesting. Right now I am in the middle of a book called Catfish and Mandala. It’s a travel memoir by Andrew [...]
“To Kanye”
— verb (used with object) 1. to demonstrate male privilege right egregiously, to interrupt the woman speaking and dispense your “wisdom” The inimitable Jessica Hopper used this term in a recent blog post about a man in her gardening class who kept trying to finish the (female) master botanist’s sentences with incorrect information. Constantly. …never [...]
Wes Anderson on the Menil Collection
Wes Anderson hatred abounds, buy y’all can all suck it. Anderson: I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There’s one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I’m interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them. Cocker: What museum [...]
More books than time
I have frequently fretted about my to-read list, which is topping 300 books, and I can’t even manage to read a book a week. At that rate it’ll take me six years to finish the books on my list right now, which multiply exponentially as each day passes. Right now I’m reading The Little Guide [...]
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