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eeeew...
Sandra Lee: The devil incarnate of the Food Network; Miss "Semi-Homemade" whose idea of cooking is to make instant pudding, put it in a wine glass, and tie a ribbon around it; purveyor of cheap-ass toxic processed slop which she throws in the microwave and then goes out to buy tons of disposable made-in-China crap so she can clutter up the table ( Read more... ) -
NYC weekend
Came to the city to celebrate beginning of spring break. D. came with me for once, which is very nice. We saw The Fairy Queen (Shakespeare/Purcell; Jonathan Kent-William Christie production at BAM) last night, which was truly astonishing, if a little labor intensive (4 hours). Going to Whitney today. I'll be bopping around on my own tomorrow. ( Read more... ) -
Okay, I'll jump in
My first time doing this, but I'm jumping in. I love reading LJ, don't post nearly as much as I would like to. So I'm joining March Question Month. Ask me a question in a comment to this post and I'll respond in a separate post. Ask me anything (with the usual provisos regarding taste, judgment etc.); help me push past this natural reticence -
SCOTUS campaign finance ruling PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION
Of all the disastrous effects of GWBush stealing the presidency nine years ago, this ruling may prove to be the worst. Recent elections demonstrate the perverting effect of money on the electorate, and now what few regulations there are have been completely swept away. It may take a constitutional amendment to change this and we need to speak ( Read more... ) -
Avatar
So David and I went to see Avatar last night. It was my first IMax experience and my first 3D experience (those old red/blue glasses don't work for colorblind people). Visually, it was pretty spectacular; there's no denying that. I suppose it had a good message, and I kind of dug the vaguely psychedelic subtext . I admit that I'm out of my ( Read more... ) -
Where I slept in 2009
New York, NY
Scotia, NY
New Paltz, NY
Montreal, QC
Rome, Italy
Florence, Italy
Appin, Argyll, Scotland
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Poughkeepsie, NY -
Interesting internet tidbit
In the first week of January, 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt attended a performance of Leslie and Sewell Stokes' biographical drama Oscar Wilde, an English import which was in the middle of a moderately successful Broadway run. A few days later she wrote the following in her newspaper column My Day ( Read more... ) -
the fruits of procrastination
In the seven hours I've been banging out an in-class writing assignment on As You Like It, I have discovered that this play mentions beards far more than any other Shakespeare play: 14 times. The next closest is King Lear, with 8. -
Academia Rant
I need to vent. I am fortunate to be a teacher at a progressive independent secondary school with highly motivated students, and we've been reading Middlemarch in my 11-12 class, and I've been having an absolute blast. My students are really enthusiastic about it. This book is not typically taught at the high school level, and of course they're ( Read more... ) -
15 Book Meme
15 Book Meme
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
2. Pursuit of Love / Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
4. The Object of My ( Read more... )