Naipaul is like napalm to my exploding head, and not in the good sense.
Anyone have any suggestions for San Francisco/NYC destinations and or events I should take advantage of this week?

"Paris, France to Michigan
London town and through Berlin
I cant believe this place I'm in
Everywhere and back again
Porcelain and China dolls
Give me one and Ive seen them all
Got my back against the wall
Wonder where I'll be tomorrow?"

...and that, following the Russell Brand I was watching last night, has not had the best of effects on my mental equilibrium...

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"Central to Lemov’s argument is a belief that students can’t learn unless the teacher succeeds in capturing their attention and getting them to follow instructions. Educators refer to this art, sometimes derisively, as “classroom management.” The romantic objection to emphasizing it is that a class too focused on rules and order will only replicate ( Read more... )

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"Ecocriticism is, succinctly, the study of the manifold interrelationships between literature-a human expressive activity-and the natural world that provides the matrix in which that expressive activity occurs. It is concerned with showing how literature is embedded within and mutually symbiotic with the encompassing more-than-human world that ( Read more... )

telluric, a.2 - Of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial; pertaining to the earth as a planet; also, of or arising from the earth or soil. (oed.com)

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"The vampire story has altered over time from tales of individual stalkers to sagas of high-drama vampire societies that function like a combination of Renaissance courtiers, fraternities, and haute couture fashion models, to the point at which their goth World of Darkness has been parodied and metaparodied in movies and on television ( Read more... )

"The dream we must now seek to realize, the new human project, is not 'security,' which is impossible to achieve on the planet earth in the latter half of the 20th century. It is not 'happiness,' by which we generally mean nothing but giddy forgetfulness about the danger of all our lives together. It is not 'self-realization,' by which people ( Read more... )