Bigger, more morally calculating, more scrupulous |
At the suggestion of a friend, I decided to be an ethicist for Cesar Chavez day (it was yesterday). Im not sure what compelled my friend to want to think of me as an ethicist, but I suspect it has s...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Welcome to MY Dollhouse, or: My tortured introduction to the life and work of M.C. Escher. |
(A one-scene play)
Setting: Mrs. Whites seventh grade math class. Mrs. White is stage left, perched on her stool by her overhead projector. Ancient, hard of hearing, and usually indifferent to th...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Monochromatic outfits |
A reader recently requested that I expound on my taste for monochroma in fashion. This is what I drunkenly wrote back:
"My affinity toward monochromatic couture stems from a love for the pure and ...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Bungle in the Jungle |
Yes, that's what I'll be doing for Valentine's Day. In the Amazon. "I'm a tiger when I want love, I'm a snake if you disagree." Ah, Jethro Tull, I love you.
Actually, I won't be doing anything ...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Drunken Masseurs |
Well, faithful readers, I am proud to say that I have received a request! A suggested topic! Here it is:
"Pick a story to tell about China. Funny, sad, poignant, irreverent, whatever. Visit your s...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
It's the Year of the Monkey! |
Happy Belated Lunar New Year, everyone. This would have gone up yesterday, but the site was down, and I was verrrrrry busy.
I forgot to make any new years resolutions on Jan 1. Thank goodness fo...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
jazz and fog |
she-moved-like-jazz
floating-over-a-picket-fence
Yesterday, I took a drive to Miles Davis. I drove through the dark green Oakland Hills as the fog rolled in. The fog had the same effect as smoke...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Public Bathroom Stall Vandalism |
Public Bathroom Stall-Wall Vandalism: not unlike journal writing on myspace.com. Except that people sitting on the pot are usually compelled to read what you have to say, out need for distraction. Mo...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Blogger-in-training |
Yes, my journal entries are turning into a daily ritual. I have written in a journal since I was 14, and I've decided that ten years later, it's time for me to enter the semi-private (because I won't...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." |
In other words, Touche. I did not mean to come off as conceited or hostile to myspace surfers in my last journal entry, I am just overwhelmed by the insta-friend culture of this particular online com...
Posted by bethany on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
