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 position. Such conditions will never come; therefore — Garrison Forever. Yet, speaking of history, this [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 24, 2007
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 grab hold of the belt, search for a weak point and throw his rival through [...]
July 23, 2007
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 theme of last week was screen memory. It’s a Freudian term. A screen memory (like [...]
July 20, 2007
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.
July 19, 2007
cypher in the snow
Setting: Amherst Coffee, Amherst, MA. My friend John approaches as I try to sort out my life after MacDowell. John: Do they still do afterschool specials? Me: I’m the wrong person to ask. But I feel like I live inside an afterschool special. Like they turned the whole country into one. Why would they need [...]
July 18, 2007
home and away
Last night here at MacDowell, we sat around making Simpson’s avatars of ourselves. While talking about incredibly deep things, of course. Here’s mine:MacDowell word count to date: 9,862
July 16, 2007
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 this. S2: You have a blog, don’t you? Delete your blog. S1: Yeah, actually. You [...]
July 15, 2007
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 billion dollars so far.
