February 2012
5 posts
“I laughed when I saw it: surely this was some kind of hilarious New Yorker...”
– The Rejectionist: Special Guest Post: Meg Clark on Jonathan Franzen
Franzen angers me.
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Planning a sleepaway writing camp.
ros: At meals someone would ask you how things are going and how long you spent just staring out the window.
ros: and they would just give you a disappointed face and not say anything if you gave a bad answer.
guil: We should find a way, charge money so we can do it for free.
ros: "Come to our fabulous Get Writing Done camp. It costs three times the actual expenses to attend."
ros: "You will get a complimentary travel mug as a bonus treat."
guil: "Productivity has been shown to increase 50%* (*statistics may vary.)
guil: "Has helped hit writers, like Guil who once took her play to a reading."
ros: Dang, I started reading that as that we would hit writers.
ros: and i laughed really loud
ros: I'm still laughing a little
guil: Hahaha, that's way better
ros: "If you do not improve we will beat you"
guil: "We will hit you with mallets"
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“What is it then that makes girls averse to science fiction? Could it be the...”
– ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ and Its Sci-Fi Heroine - NYTimes.com
Nearly everything about this article makes my eye twitch.
What makes girls averse to science fiction? You. You do. You with your gendering of everything, and assuming that girls act and think in concert, making girls who like sf/f feel like...
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
9 posts
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2011 in books
I’m going to go ahead and put this here. These are all the books I read cover to cover in 2011.
Presented without any comment! Other than to say that 6 were especially horrible and I read them with growing dread. I will leave it up to you to guess which ones.
1. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2. The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl (re-read)
3. Beatrice & Virgil, Yann Martel
4. When Everything...
“What I call “the cover design test” would be useful in Comp Lit discussions:...”
– JACKET MECHANICAL: 1. Fictions
Catching up on some reading; I read this footnote and reread it and thought “Dang, why didn’t any of my lit classes ever talk about the cover?”
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Pluses and Minuses
+ I treated myself to Panera this evening.
+ Found another Great Christmas Gift.
- It hasn’t snowed yet.
+ About to sit down and read me some Carl Sagan.
+ Five working days until vacation.
- It hasn’t snowed yet.
November 2011
5 posts
“I’ve got a little house in the middle of the Oregon mountains.” he said. “I have...”
– Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes - NYTimes.com
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2,858/50,000
Pantry recently stocked (candy corn, fancy chocolate, wine, coffee and tea)
Laptop up-to-date with software and file syncing.
Scrivener trial installed on laptop and desktop. And USB drive. Just in case.
Okay.
October 2011
5 posts
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“We negotiate a field of signifiers every time we open our wardrobes, or, in my...”
– from Laurie Penny: Handbags, Gowns and Girl Armour | The New Significance
This is basically what I would have tried to talk about if I had a fashion blog. Not so much the clothes on the floor, I mean. The signifiers.
I have a lot of Thoughts about why I like to dress nice* and not wear jeans and...
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In Brief.
The more I read about people bemoaning the rise of ebooks for any number of illogical, faux-sentimental reasons that I won’t restate, the more I want to sell all paper objects I own and live solely in the cloud, just to spite them.
Stop talking. You sound foolish.
September 2011
8 posts
275 words about a book.
Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health.
I recently finished an advanced reading copy of Quiet by Susan Cain (on sale January 2012).
My thoughts while reading this book flipped between three groups.
The self-absorbed: Oh, that’s me or Oh, that’s used to...
“I love that ebooks exist.
This doesn’t change the part where, every time...”
– seanan_mcguire: Across the digital divide.
“We naturally tend to offload our memory tasks onto the world around us. This...”
– Google Is Not Making You Stupid : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Yes, please, thank you for your calm logic. I love my infinitely extensible brain that my high-falutin’ gadgets give me.
PodOmatic | Podcast - Boldly Going Nowhere -... →
It turns out I could listen to John Allison talk for ages.
I imagine it’s frustrating to be constantly reminded of, asked about, and pushed to go back to something popular you created in a different time, and are well past. My brain does this enough on its own without external influences.
Thinking about it, though I’ve always liked the characters and witty lines he comes up with, I...
“You know, call me a communist, but I would love it if people on public...”
– You can just… — Feministe
“The romantic comedy, of course, has been conservative for many decades; the...”
– What I Learned From a Summer of Romantic Comedies - Chloe Angyal - Entertainment - The Atlantic
And that’s why most of them are booooring. At least the old ones had Rosalind and Katharine and Myrna, and fanciful hats.
August 2011
5 posts
“Thus, unless this acquisition is enjoined, customers of mobile wireless...”
– U.S. Moves to Block AT&T Merger with T-Mobile
I am well pleased.
Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope of Someone... →
I would love to quote this whole thing.
{from The Rejectionist)
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July 2011
12 posts
““Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental...”
– srsly.
(via champagnecandy)
“Once in a great while I’ll run across a person who tries to argue that...”
– -The Fantastic Five | Slide Show - Salon.com
Matt Zoller Seitz, I have hearts in my eyes for you, for this paragraph.
A joke I just rediscovered:
And Jesus said unto them, ‘And whom do you say that I am?’ They replied, ‘You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed.’ And Jesus replied, ‘What?’
“Hermione is not Chosen. That’s the best thing about her. Hermione is a hero...”
– In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series
I seriously love this. Hermione’s only my second favorite of the trio (and the trio are like my third or fourth favorite group of characters in the books) but spot on. Critical (of the series, of publishing, of literature) and extremely...
“Femme: because masculinity is not the only way to power.”
– My Femme: A partial personal history, or a purpose statement in progress — Feministe
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Today's theme is Micronesia
Things I have had to google before 8 a.m.:
FM as a country code
Nauru
black bean zucchini tacos
This is for Katrina.
This recipe is good for me and at least two meals later, especially if I have a side of rice. I took it from a recipe for black bean chipotle burritos, changed it, and halved it. Below is my version, with some options. And I recommend making them tacos. Tacos are a better filling:tortilla ratio!
BLACK BEAN CHIPOTLE BURRITOS ZUCCHINI TACOS WITH MANGO IF YOU LIKE MANGO
some...