September 2009
8 posts
Toilet revolution! →
Those greedy flip-floppers!
This doc, Bi the Way, is playing next Wednesday at the Center on Halsted. Based on their blog, it could be interesting, or maybe just stupid. For example:
“Young people, instead of packing their pickups and heading out to protests, are organizing in another way. They’re rejecting labels. They’re experimenting with new chemicals. They’re practicing sexual...
The Duende
This is an amazing Lorca essay on what he calls the duende - a spirit of death in art. http://www.musicpsyche.org/Lorca-Duende.htm
The knife and the cart wheel and the razor and the singing beard-points of the shepherds, the shorn moon and the fly, the damp lockers, the ruins and the lace-covered saints, the quicklime and the cutting line of eaves and balconies: in Spain, all...
“Eat your salad! Why don’t you like your salad?!”
– Woman in bushes on Berwyn throwing lettuce at squirrels
Totes in agreement with general message of Harold Bloom’s advice to young college folk - make besties with the canon - but I feel like it also prompts yet another tearing-off tussle over the carcass of “canon.”
For my part - I’m tired of seeing the same 2 or 3 women thrown in under the definition of classics - especially Austen (EVERYONE GETS A HUSBAND, EVERYONE GETS A...
Real nice things re. new digs
1. Pause Cafe, where I am currently admiring a bright teal ladder leaned against a yellow wall, and sun through the big skylight. Also, super-queer-friendly signs everywhere with gentle reminders like “Not everyone has the same gender identity as you.” Thanks guys (/gals/whatevs)!!
2. Related: My next-door neighbor is a very gentle-seeming transwoman. If there’s one thing I know...
