For lo, the draper is no more: Ashcroft resigned.

Hmmm. Thinking about blowing this Harvard Extension popsicle stand and applying for the M.A. in Gender/Cultural Studies at Simmons. (Don't tell Harvard I said that about the popsicle stand.) More and more I am feeling the lack of Foucault, Habermas and Bourdieu in the Harvard Extension course offerings ( Read more... )

Language Log pointed me to a list of the top 100 speeches in American history, with special mention of this:

And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark ( Read more... )

Marjanne Satrapi at a book signing event from Bookslut.

Yay me & Z, we voted today. It's a fairly symbolic act here in Cambridge, but that didn't stop us. The polling place is at a school where the 7th graders hold a "bake sale" every election. That is, they resell Dunkin' Donuts. I mean, go them for raising money for school trips, but couldn't they call it something else? Anyway, I gave them a buck but ( Read more... )

Feeling untribelike and wimpy, sitting here in my home 5 miles from Fenway Park. Or maybe it's just grouchy. I suspect the howling I hear is from the bar a quarter mile down the road. The intermittent honking cars are not so bad, I guess. Except when they travel in groups. I've heard one alarming crunchy noise that I think was a newspaper box going ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I remembered something very useful: I really like kimchi. Kimchi and a bowl of rice, yum yum ( Read more... )

There is a fierce happiness in thinking so hard.... from Nyarlahotep's Miscellany

"Tibet is to gastronomy what Switzerland is to whale-watching." -- BBC, From Our Own Correspondent 10/2/04

So, I've been reading (rolls eyes) Harry Potter fan communities. I can't explain why. It's brain junk food or something ( Read more... )