Now, this is not a politics blog. But I’m finding it very hard to stay away from politics given the awe-inspiring race between Hillary and Barack in the Democratic party. I happily got to vote this past Super Tuesday. From the beginning I have been a supporter of Hillary. Then I started to hear this [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘periodicals’
15 January 2008
Tuesday is for wasting time.
Inside the new Tom Cruise biography: Slate gets to the good stuff.
And, in case you were wondering what a Thetan does after death, here’s the straight poop from its Wikipedia page:
When a person dies – or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons its physical body – they go to a “landing station” on the [...]
9 January 2008
Hillary Clinton makes news by tearing up. A little.
Jeff and I for the first time are truly following a presidential campaign. We think part of the reason this is the first we’ve followed is simply that we were too young/in college the last time this happened. By “this” I mean simultaneous Republican and Democratic races for the party nomination. I think this [...]
22 May 2007
I am now poetry’s master.
That’s right: graduation, the jail, family, my boring but good-paying office job, looking for a teaching job, and our formerly-neat-and-tidy-now-bulldozed- looking-wrecked-ass apartment tried to kill me with their demands on my time–but I prevailed and I came out of last week with an MFA in poetry. Dean Guma told me I was entitled to “all [...]
19 March 2007
Our ever-shrinking pool of usable (stealable) culture
I’ve been reading and hearing a lot–a surprisingly big lot given that I’m not really seeking it out–about copyright and how it’s fussing up appropriation and collage in artists’ creation of art–you know, how our modern laws are making art harder to make or at least more fraught with threat of legal action. [...]
25 January 2007
Happy Anniversary Roe v. Wade
So, have any of you guys read this article on so-called Post-Abortion Syndrome in the New York Times Magazine? As you may know, despite how much I hate reading about abortion in the news, I can never resist doing so.
And this whole post-abortion syndrome is the worst, comes up over and over–Woman are so fine [...]
