in which she has an other-worldly experience while tidying up |
The pile of white ruffled shirts hadn't been washed since last use -- you could tell from the pinkish-orange makeup stains around the collars and sleeve-cuffs. Each shirt had a name, printe...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:27:00 GMT |
in which she watches movies about dead rockstars |
I think Keith Richards is, like, Satan. Only, he's like Satan in Paradise Lost, where Satan's kinda awesome.
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:34:00 GMT |
in which post-modern art takes a domestic turn |
This is amazing.
The police in Providence have just arrested this RISD professor who, some time ago, very simply went into the parking garage at the Providence Place Mall, picked the lock to an abando...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:13:00 GMT |
in which she compares notes with Cinderella |
There no longer seemed much of an up-side to cleaning the ever-growing mess left by her more pampered family members (an activity which had become a full-time job over the past several weeks...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:20:00 GMT |
in which she does research |
The Amazon.com listing for the first edition of Yigael Yadin's book about his excavation of Masada reads, Masada: Harold's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand. Which makes the ep...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 15:24:00 GMT |
an introduction to motivation |
Late in the afternoon on that fateful day when I was fifteen, the fortune at the bottom of my Bazooka comic said, "you can make it happen." I was too young to know what it was I wanted -- but I ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:45:00 GMT |
in which she makes a series of painfully honest observations about herself |
I kind of suck at life.
I have all of these grand philosophies -- the interaction of determinism and free will, chaos theory as metaphor, the super-organismic world and the life-trajectory... and I co...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:29:00 GMT |
in which she talks about death, again |
One of the people who died in Virginia yesterday was an elderly Romanian, a professor and a survivor of the Holocaust. He blocked his classroom door with his own body, shielding his st...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:58:00 GMT |
in which she talks about death |
I've known people who have died before.
A great-grandfather (by birth), who finally lost his cantankerous crusade against his pneumatic lungs, thanks to old age and general crotchetiness (not to menti...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:25:00 GMT |
in which someone comes back to her |
It's the strangest thing how people return to your life sometimes, just through suggestion.
How last night, for the first time in years, I was thinking about the seventh-grade-love-of-my-life ...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:25:00 GMT |
