Note to self (and the rest of you ( Read more... )

the good ( Read more... )

feminist theory professor, with vigorous dismay while discussing obsessive protection of physical and political borders: it's as if we're cultivating an entire culture of prophylactics!
class: --(loaded pause)--
professor: um, condoms are good things.

dan, about his novel-to-be: it's not just about people pooping! it's SO much moregoldtooth, ( Read more... )

Today I ( Read more... )

goji berries are delicious. hurray for running around like beasts. ahem. in other news, if you eat candy corn and then drink earl grey, it tastes a little like apricot ( Read more... )

I want to put something really exciting here but all I'm actually doing is reading and reording the pages of Scholastic children's books. Life is pretty quiet and busy; I keep it in the glovebox of my car and in small piles around my bed. The heater in my bedroom does work after all though, and sometimes I do have pretty good conversations and ( Read more... )

Where we come from. How we need to know ( Read more... )

People I like especially a lot lately ( Read more... )

An Elegant Theory
from Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas

She and the kids were eating at the Moon Palace, the Chinese restaurant on 112th and Broadway where physicists from Columbia University used to have their feasts and scratch their theories on the backs of napkins and matchbooks. Her daughter looked up from her moo-shu vegetables and with her ( Read more... )

It's October. It's becoming time for sweaters and scarves and boots and it's all happening here with the loud leaves. I have the opposite of senioritis. All of a sudden I would rather spend time with Margaret Sanger and Simone de Beauvoir than most of the rest of everyone else. I badly want to be smarter. And by smarter I mean wiser, both more ( Read more... )