As a lovely coda to a generally excellent summer, some friends and I ventured northward for a camping trip from last Friday until Monday. Our route took us from southeast Michigan all the way up the lower peninsula of the state to the Mackinac Bridge, which links us to the upper peninsula (sometimes it's so fun to be a citizen of the only bi- ( Read more... )

A brief thought after finishing Audrey Neffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, one of the very few works of contemporary fiction I've managed to get around to reading lately: isn't it always a little surprising how intensely a mere book, which seems so innocuous, can make you feelNow that I've all but drained myself emotionally, I am going to bed ( Read more... )

( I took some pictures in downtown Detroit today. )

I made this a long time ago while using Appleworks for one of the first times and it makes me enormously happy.


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So I signed up to take an English Honors seminar called "Shakespeare and Postmodern Theology" this fall, because damned if that doesn't sound utterly fascinating ( Read more... )

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Two seemingly unrelated facts about my life:

(1) I have loved Petula Clark's "Downtown" since childhood. (Insert gay joke here.)

(2) One of my favorite musical artists in the world is Björk.

Never did I imagine that the twain would meet.

But they have met. And the Brodsky Quartet was even involved. Thanks to the kind folks over at bjorkish, I' ( Read more... )

Wait, so Sigur Rós is playing at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on September 20th and no one told me ( Read more... )

Oh, joy!

The Detroit Film Theatre has released the next season's schedule!

Kings and Queen!

Au Revoir les Enfants!

2046!

Genesis!

Tropical Malady!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress!

And most importantly of all, Saraband, which is Ingmar Bergman's last film, and which I plan to see again and again and cry and cry and cry each time I ( Read more... )

Did anyone hear Werner Herzog on Fresh Air last week ( Read more... )