(This is just a draft; for those who traveled with us, I’m soliciting for pictures to grace this blog. The size of your pictures will depend on the amount of your bribe :- ) In his Due Considerations, John Updike, after returning from a trip to China, wrote to cover the cost of traveling, I am no Jo...
http://www.crikey.com.au/ 2 . Rundle08: Obama's eye-wateringly cute family interview US correspondent Guy Rundle writes: You write a story in the morning on a dead news day, you go to lunch, you come back and the whole world's gone haywire. To whit: your correspondent drafted a careful pseffe......
Thursday I left work early and headed over to Birmingham to see Tom Waits at the Alabama Theatre. When I'm asked to share the best concert I've ever seen, two artists come to mind. First is Peter Rowan, who is an excellent songwriter and the most captivating performer I've seen in my life, as well...
So, someone sent me this link: http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/2008/06/scattering_thought_across_the.html It's a recent blog posting by Georgia Harper, a widely recognized copyright expert and friend of a friend. In it, she cites an article by Nicolas Carr in the Atlantic entitled,...
So I've mentioned a couple of times that I got a new apartment, finally, and now I'm finally all moved in so I feel I should at least note the basics, since my previous place was giving me such a hard time that I was on the verge of drowning myself in the Hudson at times. Well, OK, it wasn't that...
Mid-summer reading update: Well, at this point, I have read a few books, and I wanted to create a list somewhere so I can keep track of them. :) This is what I have read so far: 1. Silent No More by Rod Parsley - Politics by an ultra-conservative pastor. I found some of the historical information...
If you could take any class you wanted for one semester, what would you study? There are so, so many courses I wished I could have taken. During my soon to be over undergraduate career, I took a wide variety of courses from several disciplines. However, the rigid structure of many academic programs...
I stayed up way too late last night considering i had work in the morning, and then proceeded to have nightmares for the little bit that I did sleep. Holy gosh was I ever tired today. So of course, it couldn't be the usual quiet day in the office. Oh no. We were swamped. Completely swamped. I was so...
"The complexity of things becomes more close," said Bernard, "here at college, where the stir and pressure of life are so extreme, where the excitement of mere living becomes daily more urgent. Every hour something new is unburied the great bran pie. What am I? I ask. This? No, I am that. Especially...
The killer majors in Russian at New York University. After graduation, he drives down to the University of Texas at Austin to pursue a Master's degree in Philosophy of Religion. On the drive to the southwest, the killer buys a .38 Special at a gun show. He doesn't buy bullets. He never fires a shot....
Dennis was born in Hastings, Nebraska, the daughter of Yvonne, a secretary, and Jack Dennis, a postal clerk.[1] She had a brother, Frank.[2] She was a high school classmate of Dick Cavett and attended the Nebraska Wesleyan University and University of Nebraska. Dennis grew up in Kenesaw and Lincoln,...
Hi! as I'm packing for my trip to the south of France (a quiet village where my mom's house is, and the city where I was born, Cannes, to see my dad and grandma..) i'm thinking about the books i should buy on my way to the train station, last things i've read being Augusten Burrough, Virginia Woolf...
So, here I am again at nearly five o' clock in the morning. I had a little espresso chocolate and some green tea, and that's all I need anymore to be kept up all hours of the night. It's been raining for the past couple of hours now and it's only 31 degrees outside. I doubt all of this will freeze,...
One of my challenges is to read 50 “worthy” books and since this is more than one a month I suddenly realised I ought to do a bit of planning around it. Firstly to define for myself and for the challenge what is a so called “worthy” book. I think that I am going to designate 3 types of...
.:What I'm Watching:. American Gangster. [From director Ridley Scott comes this tense crime thriller starring Denzel Washington as true-life Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. Russell Crowe co-stars as the dogged outcast NYPD cop charged with bringing Lucas down. Ruby Dee (in an Oscar-nominated role),...
According to the 'Modern Library' anyway... I started last year to try to read, in my lifetime, this list of 100 classic novels. I have heard so many people rant and rave about some of these books, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I find that so many people don't have an opinion for...
so my dear friend ubicaritas (who i miss!!! let's catch up soon!!!) tagged me to blog on my top ten favorite books, and i must admit...it's intimidated me, and not just because this awesome lady a) works at a bookstore, and b) is one of the most well-read people i've ever met. i am not nearly the...
The language in this book is complicated and the reading is dense. it is somewhat hard to follow and i had to backtrack a couple of times to actually understand what she was really saying. she starts talking about what the weather is like outside but then she just goes right from that to talking...
Simple thesis ideas I could, if I were slightly less stubborn, adopt: Thomas Mann's use of the colour green Nabokov's use of irony, in great quantities, about everything, including strawberries Whether people want to kill Salman Rushdie because The Satanic Verses is offensive, or just because...
Empowering Women "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." —Virginia Woolf Timothy Leary, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drug research and use, once said, "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." His words about women speak undeniable knowledge...
