December 2011
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WatchMy first Christmas ornament, a wind-up Smurf toy that still walks despite being probably thirty years old.
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christmas cards.
I’m in the Duane Reade on the corner of Broadway and Steinway earlier tonight, having just finished my Shakespeare final and officially being a done student of the Masters of English program at Brooklyn College. That is if the Dean of the Humanities approves my thesis, which is looking kinda sketchy since she’s sent six of them back this semester. The saga never ends.
So, I’m...
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“1940-Amplive Remix” by The...
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Dress and Writing Students.
At the reading Wednesday night I began to think about the MFAers in the audience, particularly their style. Somewhat disheveled and freshly rolled out bed, or rolled out from behind their desks at home where they no doubt take coffee intravenously, and shoved suddenly into the public with little time to prepare themselves. They wear stuff that shows that they don’t care, that the words are the...
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Thursday Night in Sad Single Town.
I’m prepared:
Movie (Super 8)
Chips (Barbecue Pop Chips)
Strawberry Milk (Shut up, it’s delicious)
You know those moments when it’s just you on the sidewalk. No one in front or behind you and you just revel it for a moment.
I had that tonight walking back from the Blockbuster machine at the Duane Reade on Steinway.
I love moments like that. For once you’re not in...
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This interview. →
That Ned did with Molly McAleer is pretty much exactly what I was referring to with this post. Also, great job, Ned. Really interesting stuff.
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For the last time.
This place where the Giants play is called New Jersey, it is not in New York State. They have no business being called the “New York” Giants. Call them what they should be called, where they play, they are the New Jersey Giants. Your argument to the contrary will always be invalid.
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“To make a perfectly unified character out of all that one has done, as Nietzsche...”
– Nehamas on “How One Becomes What One Is,” at the end Nietzsche: Life as Literature.
What struck me about this, in our final faculty study group discussing this book, was not the occasionally blatantly obvious thought, but how my very actions have exemplified this. The original mission of...
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“The self creation Nietzsche has in mind involves accepting everything that we...”
– Alexander Nehamas in Nietzsche: Life as Literature. A self-fulfilling prophecy on the nature of life and something everyone knows. This is also one of the most obvious things I’ve ever read.
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