"I often want to say things and they stay in my mind. Therefore they don't actually exist; you can't take credit for them if they never emerge."

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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow is a kind of magnificent book. It isn't really the kind of story that could be written today. The plot is basically an unhappy wealthy American travels to Africa ( Read more... )

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After seeing her interview on the Daily Show, I've been watching through recent episodes of the Rachel Maddow show. It seems basically really great. Need to make a mental note to stick with this show.

And by mental note I mean livejournal note, I guess.

"All too little is known of Up from the Magma and Back Again. It has never yet been read in its entirety."

My dad gave me a copy of Paul Hiebert's Sarah Binks to read probably a year or so ago, but it just kind of stayed in the middle of my "to read" pile for ages, basically until I needed something extremely portable for a day-trip I was making ( Read more... )

I really really hated Django. I went to see it with my father, and I actually apologized to him about having chosen to see that film afterward. Some of the dialogue around it is pretty interesting though ( Read more... )

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre ( Read more... )

I've been listening to "Blue Jeans" by Lana Del Ray on repeat basically all day.

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I don't even really like any of her other songs, but, man, I love this one for whatever reason.

"Dale gave Kiwi what appeared to be an enormous cardboard coaster. It folded out into a kind of daisy-chain checklist of the forces working counter to the lifeguard

THE DROWNING CHAIN

Lack of Education
Lack of Protection
Lack of Safety Advice
Lack of Supervision
Inability to Cope

Kiwi opened and closed the thing like an accordionist. Excellent, ( Read more... )

I'm fear-paused midway through watching The Mist right now. It's a monster film that is I guess also kind of a parable about 9/11 (or, anyway, I read an article to that effect, and thus far it's mostly bearing out ( Read more... )