Monthly Archives: July 2007
james carroll on the connection between celebrity culture and war
From Today’s Boston Globe, via Daily Kos. In the emerging Democratic consensus, forged by Congressional leaders and presidential front-runners, supposedly in opposition to Bush’s war, “out now” is becoming “out when conditions permit” — which is, of course, Bush’s exact … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse
the only real people are the people who never existed.–Oscar Wilde
Setting: Lunch yesterday at Chez Albert in Amherst, a small, cute, dark French restaurant. I am seated in the window, with a professor of French Literature who I’ll leave anonymous. We’ve had eggplant Napoleons and are finishing up. French Lit … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, novels, writers, writing
Cheonhajangsa Madonna
From the site Junge Jurnalisten’s coverage of the Berlin Gay Film Festival, a description of Cheonhajangsa Madonna, also called Like A Virgin: Ssireum [Korean wrestling] is respect for your opponent and for yourself. It takes a wrestler’s inner strength to … Continue reading
Filed under film, Korea, Korean Queer
screen memory
Every week, there’s something that repeats in the conversations around me or in the material I come across, until it’s on the level of a cosmic joke (or message–I can never decide if it’s a joke or a message). The … Continue reading
fear of an after-school special planet
I’m a little disappointed in me. Via Marisa at 3.60, Lee at Grammarpiano and Ted at Gideonse Bible.
Filed under product
delete your blog
Place: Calderwood Studio, MacDowell, Lauren Weedman’s going-away party. People: Two women colonists I can only identify as S1 and S2, and myself. Me: I think I think about the internet too much. S1: I’m the wrong person to ask about … Continue reading
la archdiocese tries to pay up
The Los Angeles Archdiocese is seeking approval on a settlement for 660 million with ‘more than 500′ sexual abuse victims–I find the phrase about numbers odd, thus the quotes. The American Catholic Church’s Sexual abuse scandals have cost them 1.5 … Continue reading
Filed under current events
deerorgan
This is Daniel Hyun Lim’s Deerorgan. He’s my one of my favorite contemporary artists and I sort of can’t afford this right now, but I might still get it for myself. He’s represented by the Andrew Michael Ford Gallery. If … Continue reading
Filed under art, Korean America
pinckney benedict reports in from the future
“I count thirteen head in there, Mister Scurry,” my father said. He looked at the clipboard in his hands. “So we’re four short.” It was always a mystery, how many animals these fellows were hiding. It might be a couple … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse, writers, writing
