December 2008
favorite moments of 2008
The ultimate Best Of list, and possibly premature, but I can at least begin it (in no particular order):
* Being at a friend’s show at The Derby and getting the text that Obama won.
* My boyfriend saying “Are you serious?” (in a good way) when he opened his birthday/anniversary/Christmas present.
* Petting the dolphin in Jamaica and feeling my heart melt all the way down to my...
“all that’s best of dark and bright
meet in her aspect and her eyes”
– - “She Walks In Beauty”, Lord Byron
I’ve been thinking about the section I learned on “the sublime” while studying English Lit for a year in London. I think it came to me while trying to figure out how to describe the scenery we were looking at, while driving around...
“a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
– - Virginia Woolf
I am halfway there.
Awesome Book About Dreams →
I think I should send this to my aunts to print out for all my little cousins.
Change.gov: Speak Your Piece →
The pressure’s on now. ;)
“when the Alliance’s Gianni Alemanno was elected mayor of Rome in April,...”
– Oh, this is nice.
Persecution of Gypsies in Italy →
How does this kind of thing slip under the radar in the U.S.? I remember visiting my Indian-British friend who was going to school in Prague, a few years ago, who told me that older Czech women on the bus tried to make her give up her seat because they thought she was a gypsy. I thought that was so bizarre. I was also a little bit confused by the frequent references to the persecution of the...
““The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is...”
– - Thomas Paine. Ha! I feel like I’ve tried to say these things several times in my life and botched it.
I had no idea these founding fathers were so delightfully sacriligious.
“I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or...”
– Benjamin Franklin
New Amnesty International Song and Video for... →
Kind of uplifting.
quitter
So I left LAist. And I feel an enormous sense of relief, and very few regrets. When I started writing for them, I lived alone, I was single, and I didn’t have a band. Over the few years since then, I’ve remedied all of that, on top of writing a screenplay and a novel, so my free time is used a whole lot differently. In some ways, I pulled my foot back in from the hipster doorway,...
Cadillac Records - Official Site →
Damn, gotta see this one.
"All Known Metal Bands" →
I bet these are pretty funny. I’d like to skim through it.