You prepare for one sorrow, but another comes. It is not like the weather, you cannot brace yourself, the unreadiness is all. Your companion, the woman, the friend next to you, the child at your side, and the dog, we tremble for them, we look seaward and muse it will rain. We shall get ready [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Oddjob, a Bull Terrier (Derek Walcott)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged derek walcott, poetry on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Magazines I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cabinet Magazine, Gastronomica, Rolling Stone, Spin on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a previous life called high school, I devoured music magazines – Rolling Stone, Spin, even the little-known titles I’d chance upon at the magazine bins of Maces, a long-time outlet of Book Sale items in LB. Since then, Rolling Stone has totally gone pop, Spin literally shrank, its founder Bob Guccione, Jr. nowhere to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How do you solve a problem like “Julie and Julia?” I am currently reading (rather belatedly) “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman off my cousin Ate Mildred’s bookshelf. This comes in the heels of plodding through “Julie and Julia” by Julie Powell, a book of memoirs based on her blog “The Julie/Julia Project” in [...]
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“The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions”-Italo Calvino
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