The two first items on my Google Reader today: Tina at Scatterplot, writing that misfortunes highlight how lucky I am, and A. over at On My Commute, who is feeling lucky no longer putting off the inevitable. A double-whammy of good advice to quit whining and get some perspective — coincidence, or just good luck? [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Luck of the Draw
28-Apr-09Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
13-Apr-09For those who haven’t heard, I have the sad news to share that Eve Sedgwick died yesterday. Although she taught at CUNY, I never got the chance to take a class with her. Nonetheless, I can only think of a few other writers who have impacted me as much as her. I read Between Men [...]
Mean Nerds vs. Deep Pretty Girls
10-Apr-09Like Obama, I’ve been a bit despondent since Battlestar Galactica wrapped up. The bad thing about watching TV shows as they air, as opposed to on dvd or on the computer, is that you don’t get to decide how fast it goes by. They do. So with BSG taken from me before I was ready, [...]
Art Day
08-Apr-09I had an art-filled day yesterday, starting in the morning with the wonderful people of Visual AIDS. I’m working on a little project with them, and have immensely enjoyed the hours poring over slides from their archives of art by people with HIV/AIDS. Their office — a beautiful and slightly beat-up room in a giant [...]
Ouchy
06-Apr-09I spent the past few days shunning my dissertation at the Awesome Farm work weekend. Awesome Farmers KayCee and Owen gathered a group of thirty or so friends and farm allies to work on a bunch of projects — sheep maintenance, field clearance, egg gathering, chicken coop construction, and of course, the much-loved lunch crew. [...]
This, and That
03-Apr-09I’m pretending I’m an art student today, hanging out in the very pretty but comfortable offices over at Steinhardt, doing work and drinking tea. When I imagine an alternate life at an imaginary university in Europe somewhere, my imaginary office looks a lot like the one I’m in right now — stacks of magazines, slide [...]
Department of Eagles
02-Apr-09And, on the theme of war, the new video for No One Does It Like You, by the Department of Eagles (h/t to Bridge for passing along).
Overseas Contingency Operations
02-Apr-09While WILBing around during office hours today, I happened upon a Times opinion piece that calls into question the Obama administration’s verbal distancing from the Bush reign of (war on) terror. In the midst of a bunch of domestic turmoil, it helpfully reminds those of us in the U.S. about the continuation of wars and [...]
Hello, Dummy! See you tomorrow, Bijoux!
01-Apr-09A few random items, because that’s how my mind rolls on a Wednesday: Last week’s episode of 30 Rock was pretty stellar. Not only do we get the return of the Beeper King, but we also learn a new term for laughing so hard you pee your pants: “lizzing,” as in laughing + whizzing. Btw, [...]