I seem to be making a specialty of depressing lunchtime reading this week. Today's star attraction was a lengthy study of film projection in the Boston area. Even though I almost never go out to films any longer, I do want to know that if I decide to spend TEN DOLLARS for two hours of my own time, I'm going to see something along the lines of ( Read more... )

A Public Service Announcement: the planet Mercury, astrological ruler of communication and communications tech, is going Retrograde early tomorrow morning at 1 a.m. Fasten your seat belts, pay extra attention to communication with loved ones and superiors, and remember that the period of Merc Retro does present wonderful opportunities for deeper, ( Read more... )

A belated public service announcement: Mercury went Retrograde a couple of weeks ago, and is due to go Direct on 1 February. Since that's the same weekend as Imbolc (or Candlemass), the Feast that marks the beginning of Spring in the Old Calendar, look for some extra speed bumps as all that pent-up energy of communication and the related areas of ( Read more... )

Another public service announcement: today Mercury goes Retrograde for another three week period, going Direct again on October 15 ( Read more... )

From astrologycom.com ( Read more... )

I saw a billet for this event on the T this a.m. and it looks really incredible:

http://www.midwife.org/am/

I imagine it would be well worth attending for male couples who are raising children, as well. Lots of free stuff, demos, films, etc. Hooray for Midwives!

It is National Poetry Month and Adrienne Rich is reading at Radcliffe this afternoon. EDIT: Turns out that Rich's reading is happening NEXT Monday afternoon, 28 April. Glad I double-checked...

Burning Oneself Out

We can look into the stove tonight ( Read more... )

A neglected name amongst American Bards is Victor H. Anderson. His poetry would be related by scholars to that of George Sterling, Clark Ashton Smith, and other "California Symbolist" writers of the 1920s but Anderson was of a later generation and had a voice whose intimacy, passion, and occasional raw notes came from a life of hard struggle and ( Read more... )

I vaguely remember touring the Monsanto "House of the Future" in Disneyland in 1968 and being intrigued by just how ... futuristic it looked. (Remember how "in the future" we were all going to travel down the street on mini hovercrafts and EVerything would be push-button controlled? because they hadn't realized yet just what a bitch it is when the ( Read more... )

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