David Foster Wallace hung himself at home this past weekend, and left his dangling body for his wife to find when she got home. What a sweetie.

I was shocked because he was one of my favorite contemporary writers. He was successful and had a good job as a writing professor. I have read almost everything he has written. I always get weirded out when ( Read more... )

To my few but valued friends on livejournal ( Read more... )

(also posted on The Silver Apples)

About 3 weeks ago, my dear little 19" Toshiba tube TV of 12 years died in spectacular fashion: snapped, crackled, emitted a strange smell, and died--I ran to the power strip and switched it off and unplugged everything lest my townhouse apartment burn down. That is what I get for watching Larry King Live like a ( Read more... )

So my little life has been uneventful of late, hence the lack of posts. My ex-boyfriend of more than 8 years ago now also let me onto his blogspot, so now we blog together, in an extremely platonic current events sort of way.

My daughter contracted an ear infection after a cold that she had last week. Yesterday I had to drop everything to rush her ( Read more... )

This is so fucking gross, I am never eating meat again. Though cool if you are an immunologist, or if you are looking for a band name. Imagine, pig brain antigens being so close to ours that our immune system starts attacking our peripheral nerves! OK, ouch, and gross, but cool. Did I say I'm never eating meat again?

(this post was actually written for the silver apples)

I'm suspicious of minimalism, but especially of minimalist composers. The deconstruction of music is completely illogical and cannot reasonably yield music; moreover it is a rejection of the metaphysical power that music has over the human mind. A sterilization of sorts, a separation of the ( Read more... )

Yes, like She-ra, Princess of Power. Like embedding the sound chip from your Atari 5200 into your synthesizer, and playing awesomely constructed electronic music songs. And better yet, these kids are home grown, right from the yucky city in which I live, which I am beginning slowly, to love to hate ( Read more... )

I work from home so I've replaced chatting at the water cooler with reading blogs. Oh all of the blogs I read. I read them until my eyes feel like they will pop. I read them instead of watching TV ( Read more... )

Wow what a complex and misunderstood issue. But yet there are obvious truths. Um ( Read more... )

Last night there was a blizzard that dropped 30 cm of snow on us. That is a foot, for those not picturing metric measurements in their heads yet. Anyways, being the second major snowstorm in one week, it wasn't very much fun. I forgot to mention how Canada bleeds Toronto out as a tax base, underfunding the city's infrastructure. This means no ( Read more... )