I hope that everyone is having a good three-day weekend! It is absolutely beautiful in Bellingham. Almost all of my friends have gone home for the weekend. Marcus went home, too. I feel sort of lonely. I dont know if I agree with the "absence makes the heart grow fonder" thing. For me, it is more like "absence makes me realize how insanely ( Read more... )

Media has the ability to transport me. Perhaps that is why I enjoy studying it. There is something about encountering a text and about the way that each subsequent encounter pulls me back to the past at the same time roots me in the present.

Over the last couple weeks, Marcus and I have been watching Six Feet Under. He had never seen it before. I ( Read more... )

I want to send a slightly belated Happy Birthday wish to the beautiful, funny, smart, sweet, and all-around amazing travelbytrain! I cannot believe that I didn't post this before midnight. I had been planning to all day long. Anyway, I hope that you had a wonderful day, Kate. I miss you so much, and I cant wait to see you this summer!

xoxoxoxoxo!

We were discussing Fight Club in my Postmodern Narration in Film class today, and my sixtysomething professor said the following:

"Where does the penis come from?!?" That IS the question!He said it in all seriousness, and I just thought that it was way too amusing. It certainlly is the question, Prof. Park ( Read more... )

I was sort of shocked to find the following letter in my mailbox today.


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It is lovely out today. I should go do something. Maybe I will walk down to Fairhaven in a while. Marcus is in Seattle this weekend, so I am alone and not realy used to that anymore. It was wonderful to be able to sleep in today. I needed it after this week.

I went to see Smart People last night. I went sort of last minute because I was bored. It ( Read more... )

I have been so frustrated and angry this entire week. I hate it. I am not usually an angry person. It is not an enjoyable emotion. I cannot even quite describe it. I just constantly feel agrivated. People, school, politics...everything seems to be bothering me. I am not even physically comfortable; simple things like reading or watching tv seem ( Read more... )

Apparently a man in his 70s cut out over 600 pages from various books in Western Washington University's library. The pages that he removed were mainly maps and lithographs from serialized Congressional reports. Apparently the guy had been doing the same thing at libraries across the country, stealing thousands of pages from early 20th, 19th, 18th ( Read more... )

I often sort of dismiss formalism and structuralism. I often think that as forms are literary criticism they, like most things from modernity, are rather exhausted, and that something more is needed. I tend to favor more poststructuralist/postmodernist forms of literary theory. I like to think of texts as living and changing, rather than things ( Read more... )