In the past six or so months, Jeff and I have done some swimming the pleasant waters of Robert Redford’s filmography–Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were (oh, it’s true, we watched our first Babs flick together), Out of Africa.
I suppose I knew on some level that Robert Redford was [...]
I privately pledged to myself that my next post was going to be all positive. I’ve been awful picky lately, what with disparaging the Times’ coverage of brownies and Sudhir Venkatesh’s ill-use of page layout conventions, but turns out I’m gonna keep being picky. Ha!
1. I read The Ticking by Renee French. The [...]
Currently watching: Buffy, Season Two: Lie to Me
One of the most emailed articles from The New York Times the past couple days has been the recipe for Supernatural Brownies. Having made them, I can assure you they are quite tasty. As much as I adore the fact that the Times–that very venerable paper [...]
I started out my weekly troll through the Oxford English Dictionary this week with “bell-wether,” a bad-ass word I snatched from a poem of the lovely Jean Hartig. I found something way cooler than a neutered sheep that bearing a bell around his neck, however. I found a mythic couple of monsters–one eats [...]
Two Saturdays ago was the Race and Poetry Symposium at Sarah Lawrence, put together by Jeff McDaniel (who has become something of a hero of my over the last 3 years or so) and Tina Chang (who I don’t know at all, but seems very cool). Basically (and I haven’t been to a [...]
Jeff and I have mentioned casually a couple times our deep appreciation of the tragically cancelled television series The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. As many of you probably know, we don’t actually have telelvision–no cable, no television set. What we do have, however, is a Netflix account divided into three queues–one for him, one [...]
Dr. Sheffer, the scariest teacher in all of North Allegheny school district (for a visual representation of Dr. Sheffer’s formidableness click here for his “web page” on AP US History and compare it to this one for AP European History, by Mr. Mohr, the nicest teacher in all of North Allegheny) was the first teacher [...]
I feel like I’ve been slogging along without taking much of a break from any of my various jobs for anything these past couple months. Reasonably, I know this isn’t exactly true: Jeff and I went out to dinner last weekend (Bloodroot!), we hit up the Race and Poetry Symposium here at Sarah [...]
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