November 2008
24 posts
October 2008
17 posts
“Some cities, including Washington, San Francisco and Santa Cruz, Calif., have passed ordinances banning discrimination based on looks. But legal action on behalf of the unattractive can be complicated.
‘One pitfall is the distinction between people’s identities as members of a race or a religious group or gender versus as a member of a group of ugly people,’ said Sherry F....
Sheep and Wool
WatchThis is my biweekly walk to the library, now that they shut down my old favorite branch. I like fighting the crowd on 5th avenue, smelling the greasy falafel cart on the corner of 50th & whatever, and (now that I’ve been a few times) watching the lunchtime regulars on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Today I saw a family of tourists all taking individual photos of the new...
Good Things
Books to read.
Food to eat.
Walks to take, air to breath.
Friends, family to love.
Coffee to drink (tomorrow morning).
Laura Barrett - Robot Ponies
Toast
It’s worth getting up for. Just at dawn, on a dead-of-winter walk, I could smell it wafting from homes all around the lake as they emerged from the dark like loaves from an oven, steaming. Is there an aroma more divine than that of bread warming, bread browning, crisping for the spread of butter and marmalade, the sprinkling of sugared cinnamon? Whatever terrors the night might harbor, how...
maw maw
My cousin just put a bunch of old family photos on Flickr.
Radiohead - Reckoner
good intentions volume 1
I started grad school last month, kind of. Library school is more like professional school - like flight school, or welding or something, only for bookish nerds. It’s nice to be in class again after a few years off. Surprise: I still love school supplies and syllabi. I still prefer quietly stewing to speaking up in class. I still feel a vague apprehensive animosity for my anonymous...
