January 2012
2 posts
1 tag
A Fitting Present
“Goddamn,” he said to me as he closed the book. “Don’t ever tell me again you can’t write. That’s my birthday present to you.”
-Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Recently I read The Year of Magical Thinking. Lately I’ve been on a reading binge with the rule that I have to read as many books by female authors as I read books by male authors. Not that I think that Joan Didion, Joyce...
November 2011
1 post
The epitome of Jennifer Egan's Success
”Oh, man. Pun intended. Jonathan Franzen and the boys’ club that backed him, on one side; Jennifer Egan, who published part of Goon Squad in an “anti-chick lit” anthology, on the other. It’s like Sophie’s Choice, if Sophie hated both her kids. Worse, neither book was any fun. Freedom’s characters range from loathsome to despicable, with the author’s contempt dripping from every sentence....
September 2011
1 post
Reader's ADD
Lately the book of short stories has become popular. Many people believe this is so because the world has some sort of ADD epidemic.
For my plan as a writer, I have decided to cater to a future demographic of people with ADHD and write a short story of flash fiction.
You’re welcome, reading community.
April 2011
4 posts
Rei Berroa →
Is it awkward that I googled this man while I was sitting next to him?
Easter Tips →
Can’t figure out what to do this Easter? Take a seat. McSweeneys has this for you.
March 2011
3 posts
Childish Gambino EP →
If you don’t have this yet, then you need to get it.
February 2011
3 posts
Bioshock Movie Falls Out →
It is a shame that MPAA has to turn what could have been a great movie out of a great game into butterflies and petunias. People shoot up in this game. Little girls steal peoples’ souls. HOW CAN THAT BE PG-13!?
What Makes Iago Evil?
For some reason this quote from Didion’s Play it as it Lays reminds me of my roommate. Could it be that he rehearsed one of Iago’s monologues in a Shakespeare class with him…?
Yeah. That’s probably it, actually.
Nonetheless, I am reading this fantastic novel right now. I can’t help loving Maria in the same sense that I loved Patty Berglund. What makes Iago so...
January 2011
2 posts
Watchsarahschneider:
True Grit With Subtitles: This was all I kept thinking during the movie (besides holy crap this is beautiful), so I made it into a little video!
Could not stop laughing.
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
5 posts
Thanksgiving Reads
Cuento Contigo 2 by Carmen Posadas and Gustavo Martin Garzo
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal by JK Rowling
El ultimo refugio by Roberto Innocenti
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordin (Author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
Don’t worry, my kiddies. Pretty soon I’ll be speaking your language.
WatchAndrew Bird at TED.
WatchI hate myself on camera, but John did a great job documenting mine and my class’ trip to Nicaragua during Spring Break of 2010.
“You know what I noticed on Fox News? They’re calling her Governor Palin. ...”
– Tina Fey
Urban Outfitters Has a New Product →
Sometimes I like to look at Urban Outfitters’ and American Apparel’s websites just to see what’s wrong with the world.
October 2010
7 posts
“So yeah I know I’m still afraid/ Of letting go of choices I have made.”
– Sufjan Stevens
Adam
Babe Ruth is to calling the direction of his hits as Chad Patton is to winning the New Yorker caption contest this week.
(It’s so good, I can’t even post it on the interwebs)
WatchThere is no one better than Seth Galifianakis.
September 2010
5 posts
If Only I Were an Analrapist →
Maybe then I would join this support group.
I Made This Statement Knowing, no Matter What...
me: ok, let's pretend that you are a girl
Steve: no
“Just flying all over Central’s campus. I got a job as a coney dog wrapper,...”
– Carleigh Racinski
My Cousin is a pretty cool girl. She does what she can to make a living, and sometimes - when I’m alone in the dark, in front of my computer watching “You Smile” because nobody else understands me - I begin to think that she has a secret camera in my chair.
3 Years, and Then They Fell
Today my 6th grade class at Northern Trails talked about the anniversary of 9/11 as well as the delusional man threatening to burn the Quran at Ground Zero. Being someone who has established himself as an opinionated person, my thoughts on the matter are already bursting at the seam, but I’d rather talk about my amazement with my students on two accounts:
1) The way in which these kids can...
August 2010
11 posts
Learn How to Speak Spanish (with a Southern...
Below are five phrases that will get you through a Tex-Mex situation that involves
1. Hola (oh-lur) - Hello 2. Me gusta papas fritas (may/gus-tur/pahp-urz/free-turz) - I like french fries 3. Que chido tus pantalones (K/chee-tahr/toos/pant-a-loons) - Cool pants 4. Tu ingles es perfecto (too/ing-lis/is/pur-fack-tur) - Your English is perfect 5. No me mates (ner/mee/mayts) - Don’t kill...
Cleaning Water is Now as Easy as Making Tea →
Except you don’t have to heat the water.
Watchchaotic:
Far Away by José González
A reaspm why videogames are cool: they have things in them.
Something I have noticed about the womenfolk
mitchplease:
is that they spend about 97% of their time talking about “boys.”
97% of us boys aren’t worth talking about.
srsly. Its (mostly) a waste of time.
Prolific Ponderings of a Particular Patriarchal Perspective that Presumptuously Profiles Persons of a Particular Predestination thus Pronouncing a Propensity for - Misogyny - and Phurthermore an un-Paralelled and, if not, Paralyzing...
I Always Get Reminded
There are a lot of unique personalities in this world. Maybe I don’t understand them, Maybe they don’t understand me.
July 2010
14 posts
I Got Nothing Done Today
Tyler: You don't really know how to handle days when you don't work or have class, do you?
Me: Nope!
Yet Still They Felt No Terror
The musing night and the stiff harbinger That slapped them in the face with a kiss and a whisper. The stern sinking low in time with the lull of the serpent, That coiled underneath with its rigid sliver-back, That felt no shame beneath them, That fought despite their toil, That caused their earnest inferno. Parted by the bow, broken oars and rusted ‘poons, The fear in old men’s eyes...
Arrested Development Movie is "On Like Donkey... →
The Man in Black and Jacob in the Bible
I strongly believe that the relationship between The Man in Black and Jacob was take from Job 1:6-12. The interaction between Satan and God is rather mystifying. Their dialogue, their attitudes toward one another, their limitless apathy when the opposite is brought into question is of a dynamic that transcends the barrier of comprehension. Much like Jacob and the Man in Black, however, one can...
