Thursday August 14, 2008 at 12:46
Thursday August 14, 2008 at 0:52
Valparaiso, Chile (taken a year ago to the day)…i think my favorite part of this pic is the discarded dime bag on the step.
Thursday August 14, 2008 at 0:28
Wednesday August 13, 2008 at 20:12
Good to see
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Wednesday August 13, 2008 at 18:33
What it sounds like when James Wood analyzes children's literature:
rach:
[In Robert McCloskey’s “Make Way for Ducklings,” Mr. and Mrs. Mallard are trying out the Boston Public Garden for their new home, when a swan boat (a boat made to look like a swan but actually powered by a pedal-pushing human pilot) passes them. Mr. Mallard has never seen anything like this before. McCloskey falls naturally into free indirect style: “Just as they were getting ready to start on their way, a strange enormous bird came by. It was pushing a boat full of people, and there was a man sitting on its back. ‘Good morning,’ quacked Mr. Mallard, being polite. The big bird was too proud to answer.” Instead of telling us that Mr. Mallard could make no sense of the swan boat, McCloskey places us in Mr. Mallard’s confusion; yet the confusion is obvious enough that a broad ironic gap opens between Mr. Mallard and the reader (or author). We are not confused in the same way as Mr. Mallard; but we are also being made to inhabit Mr. Mallard’s confusion.] - From How Fiction Works
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Mr.Wood (Professor Wood to me circa 2002) was and always will be an influential literary mind and I owe him a great deal of gratitude for making me realize that the literary form, especially the modern novel, is still capable of great things.
This post was reblogged from Hello, I'm Rachel..
Tuesday August 12, 2008 at 23:54
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
So my nightly surfing led me to the above titled Adbuster’s cover story. Wow, does this guy lay it on thick. Commentary is begged by hyperbole such as:
“An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning.”
I need not further criticize, read the article if you want to hate on hipsters. I will say that the hipster phenomona is not nearly as bad as this naysayer professes. As accurately refuted by Momus, all groups like this add something and propel society down a certain path that in the end, I trust we will be appreciative for. Certainly there are ample characteristics of hipsterdom that raise eyebrows for the wrong reasons, but in the end history shows that if you put enough kids in a room with cheap beer, drugs, and bad clothing, something good will come from it. I look back at the scenes I have been a part of , and the old adage, those in greenhouses shall not throw stones comes to mind. Its inescapable to hold some disdain toward the kids who are doing what you once did, only with different music, different drugs, and different motives. Dont get me wrong, hipsters can be criticized, but they are not the destructive force this guy thinks.
Tuesday August 12, 2008 at 0:27
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Morphine - Candy (a long time favorite)
Tuesday August 12, 2008 at 0:01
Bill never pulled his punches. You know I still love you all, I can only imagine what he’d say about my career.
Tuesday August 12, 2008 at 0:00
Im lying out in Newport RI when I look up and see this bullshit. Leave me the fuck alone marketing scum….figures its a car insurance company. This calls for a little bit of Bill Hicks. See above.
Monday August 11, 2008 at 10:23
Now you can hate on Pitchfork via T.V.
Hell, I like Pitchfork, never been one to deny it. So I look forward to the premier of their programming on I.F.C. later in the month.← Older Entries Page 2 of 17 Newer Entries →
