Sometimes it feels so nice to have a reminder that you are not the only writer who procrastinates. Right now I am balancing two Research Assistant jobs, my thesis writing/researching, household chores and errands, and planning my upcoming nuptials (we’ve decided to have a winter wedding!) - because I’m CRAZY. I am in the habit [...]
Compiled by a blogger at the LA Times, this is a very interesting list of 61 top recommended postmodern reads, deemed postmodern based on having one or more set characteristics:
Author is a character
Self-contradicting plot
disrupts/plays with form
comments on its own bookishness
plays with language
includes fictional artifacts, like letters
blurs reality and fiction
includes historical falsehoods
overtly references other fictional works
more [...]
Excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s infamous (and very compelling) commencement speech, on thinking differently:
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to [...]
The challenge: read David Foster Wallace’s highly-praised novel Infinite Jest during the summer of 2009 from roughly June 21st to September 22nd, at about 75 pages a week.
Since I’ve had this book sitting on my reading pile for a while now, I have decided to accept this challenge and follow along at the very interesting [...]
I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks to much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled masterful tyrant whom [...]
“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to the silence. Eventually I fell asleep contented, filled with soundlessness, but while I was awake I enjoyed the experience of darkness, though, memory, sweet anticipations. I heard the silence. It was in those days of the early [...]
Things have been so perplexing lately - I hate not knowing what’s ahead. I am waiting to find out about three masters applications, am still unsure about when I’m leaving for Europe (April or May? yes - this April or May!), and I don’t really know what city I’m going to be living in [...]
I’ve been using the t-log, as I like to call it (because Tumblelog sounds even more ridiculous) for only two months, and yet have used it to capture the best of many of the provocative finds (art, video, links, quotes) that I come across nearly daily on my paths across the web. I thought [...]
An important announcement from Canadian media - a heralding, a warning, a portent -
The weather phenomenon La Nina will bring Canada the coldest winter in nearly 15 years, Environment Canada warned Friday.
Environment Canada’s temperature forecast shows the majority of the country will experience a “temperature anomaly” of below-normal temperatures through the months of December, [...]
[Wow, two entries in one day during Nablopomo! Since it's past midnight, does this entry count for Saturday?] So I’ve been doing a little of the true ‘web surfing’ lately, which can be really fun once in a while when I’m in that mood for discovering new things and enjoying the sensations of [...]
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