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2008-07-24, 1:28 a.m.:
On a much much much much lighter note ... ... this blog comes up 4th on the Google search for "Honky tonk girl chapbook." I think you'll be with me on this when I say that ain't nothin to sneeze at. It's the pewter medal, after all. And the world do need more chapbooks of the honky tonk girlicious variety. I think we can all agree. 0 comments
2008-07-23, 8:25 p.m.:
On the bald street breaks the blank day. 0 comments
2008-07-16, 12:54 p.m.:
What is it with frakkin' Keira Knightley? FIrst she pollutes the role of beloved Elizabeth Bennet, now I find out she has done the same to Lara of Dr. Zhivago fame (in a miniseries version). No no no no. At least she was more or less palatable in Atonement (which I saw against my better judgment, due to having much liked the book and much hated the marketing hype in advance of the movie .. it just did not seem that the marketers/moviemakers understood what the story was actually about, and THAT worried me). She was just fine. I had few hopes or cares for her character as it was, and I suppose that is just how it should be. On a related note, we went on a date (TO ESCAPE FROM OUR DAILY HOURLY CONSTANT MOURNFUL CONFUSED GRIEVING HELL for a just a few blissfully forgetful, senses-overloaded hours in a big dark loud theatre with nasty popcorn and huge cold-sweating waxy soft drink cups), and the plan was to see a double feature, with Hellboy being the heart of that. As the whole world may or may not know, Hellboy is my favorite comic. I don't know if I can say he's my favorite hero/anti-hero, because I also have this thing for the Dark Knight and for obscure Jedi from the Knights of the Old Republic era, and it's hard not to just be all sweet on Spiderman, isn't it? And of course there's Wolverine and Jean Grey. And Enid in Ghost World. But my point is, I'd rather read a Hellboy comic than any other. I love Joss Whedon's X-Men wanderings, and I love that Buffy season 8 is taking place in comic book form, and I love everything in the Batman mythology. But more in theory. Hellboy the real deal. But Ironman was only playing once, at 6:15, and so we made that and planned to catch Hellboy right after. But then never did make to Hellboy, got off track, time passed. And Ironman? Oh, the hype. The many many months of hype. And I'm sure it was just a fine movie, maybe a fantastically made movie, an enjoyable movie, but I didn't enjoy it. At this point, after all these months and months of encomium, I guess I couldn't help but expect some sort of Citizen Cane. This is all frivolous and trivial. The truth is, we're grieving and we're just getting by. Peter's mom died two weeks ago. I could be doing a better job, but I'm trying to give myself a little bit of a break. Just get through. 2 comments
2008-06-25, 6:39 p.m.:
"Contrary to the rumors I have been trying to spread for some time, Disney Princess products are not contaminated with lead. More careful analysis shows that the entire product line--books, DVDs, ball gowns, necklaces, toy cell phones, toothbrush holders, T-shirts, lunch boxes, backpacks, wallpaper, sheets, stickers etc.--is saturated with a particularly potent time-release form of the date rape drug." (from Barbara Ehrenrich's "Bonfire of the Disney Princesses" in The Nation online) I love a first paragraph that packs a punch mere milliseconds before you are about to flick your eyes down the page. Sometimes I thank my ugly little household gods that my dealings with the core of the "Disney princesses" (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White ... and, uh, Aurora, Pocahontas, Jasmine and Anastasia?) are minimal because of having boys, not girls. It means much less rot to compensate for on my part. Luckily, Mulan, Ariel and Belle (my favorites, in that order, and to my mind the least objectionable three) are the only popular ones in this household. And Dora. Dora reigns supreme! (She's the resident 3-year-old's favorite.) I haven't the heart to break it to him that she has now also purportedly become a princess. It's a disease, a pink one, that's evidently catching. 0 comments
2008-06-24, 8:31 p.m.:
It's been a good week for links. I just found the Feministing blog, which has provided hours of blissful/outraged reading for me lately (OK, today) (former because this is a rich site to mine, latter because the of the rampant misogynism in our society so handily punctuated by the stories brought to this blog). This page of the Top 10 anti-feminist clips on the net is just perfect for riling an old girl up. 0 comments
2008-06-23, 11:41 p.m.:
Oh yes. The door to hell. 0 comments
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