This king is crazy. He has to have this and he has to have that. He had me, his servant, find the key so he could unlock the door to the secret room and he had to see the portrait of the girl dressed in gold and then he had to go get the girl … Continue reading Storytime Sunday, 01/05/14 — Grimm Brothers reboot, #5
Storytime Sunday, 12/28/13 appropriate for “kids” over 13
Dear Friends -- at last, we are back on track with the Grimm Brothers Fairytale reboot project. Here's #4 (only 205 more to go): Hollywolves, the goat lady, and her (adopted) kids (Grimm Fairytale, #4 reboot) Once upon a time there was a woman who looked like a goat, because she was a goat, and … Continue reading Storytime Sunday, 12/28/13 appropriate for “kids” over 13
story time sunday — 12/15/13– night of the living…. walmart
Dear friends of the unreal -- My friend R and I were talking about zombies over the summer this past year. "What's with that whole obsession?" I asked him. He said something about places in the world that were already unlivable, and so the zombie thing connected with that. But I think it has more … Continue reading story time sunday — 12/15/13– night of the living…. walmart
Story Time Sunday , 12/08, 2013
On my last day at the university, I peel my nameplate off the Silly Putty pink square above the small bulletin board rectangle to the right of what was until 2 minutes ago my office door. I walk down the narrow hall --- past the other rectangles and squares with office hours cards and other … Continue reading Story Time Sunday , 12/08, 2013
pardon our dust while we make closure
dear magically real friends -- There's alot of verbiage circulating out there about "making closure." What doesn't get said or written about is how time-comsuming making closure actually is. So.... this blog will be on hiatus for the next 5 weeks, as that packing of up boxes and the clearing of spaces -- actual, virtual, … Continue reading pardon our dust while we make closure
Sor Juana, 1648-1645
English follows SpanishYou Men(Español) Hombres necios que acusáis a la mujer sin razón, sin ver que sois la ocasión de lo mismo que culpáis: si con ansia sin igual solicitáis su desdén, ¿por qué quereis que obren bien si las incitáis al mal? Combatís su resistencia y luego, con gravedad, decís que … Continue reading Sor Juana, 1648-1645
Story Time Sunday on Wednesday 10/16: Taraxacum part 7
I sleep the way I always sleep in Montpellier. Strangely. I wake up feeling more tired than when I went to bed. Like I've switched universes about 10 times. I get up and eat a brioche from the neighborhood place. Drink some coffee in my little kitchen. Listen to the neighbors talking to each other … Continue reading Story Time Sunday on Wednesday 10/16: Taraxacum part 7
the counter narrative proposed by Herculine Barbin
The mainstream narrative about girls in school tends to be pretty bleak. Interestingly, though, there's an important counter-narrative that Herculine Barbin participates in, and may even have played a role in starting. Take a look at the first half-hour of this famous feminist film, shot by a woman director in the early 1930's: Maedchen in … Continue reading the counter narrative proposed by Herculine Barbin
Story Time Sunday: 10/05 –taraxacum: the story so far…..and a new chunk, Part 6
Taraxacum part 1 Taraxacum part 2 Taraxacum part 3 Taraxacum part 4 Taraxacum part 5 and now........ part 6 I fall asleep in the late afternoon, and wake only when the air from my tiny garret window begins to cool off the inside and the pizza oven at the place downstairs gets turned on, and … Continue reading Story Time Sunday: 10/05 –taraxacum: the story so far…..and a new chunk, Part 6
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Storytime Sunday has been interrupted by an overflow of work-related THINGS. Financial THINGS. School THINGS. Thingie THINGS. Please stand by as we attempt to deal with the THINGS:
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 