Month: November 2011

Well – down with all major league sports, then.

13/11/2011

So he promises them things he can’t promise like a book deal for “Major League Addiction.” He says it’s got good dirt. Something about a cabal of child molesters in clubhouse whose names he doesn’t remember and a full accounting of the steroid users he saw working in Fitzpatrick’s clubhouse and how Major League Baseball … More Well – down with all major league sports, then.

Left Hand

12/11/2011

…Well so that is our country. The night side of our country. If there is a day side to it, high sierras, prairies of bright grass, we only know pioneers’ tales about it, we haven’t got there yet. We’re never going to get there by imitating Machoman. We are only going to get there by … More Left Hand

Limit and cut

12/11/2011

Here is something else I dislike about standard academic advice: it is all about limiting, cutting, squeezing, evading, fitting in. It is claustrophobic and everything is such a tight fit. What about expanding, using your powers, doing as you see fit, enjoying what you do? This version of how to say no, from the Tenured … More Limit and cut

Things

11/11/2011

Is there anyone else who doesn’t have a lot of things? I do not. Ideally I would have still fewer things, but many wall decorations. Axé.

Marco Longhini

11/11/2011

A good conductor is worth a great deal. Listen to the waves murmur, as the fronds tremble. We have sung this song before.  Beautiful dawn: the breeze is your messenger, and you are a messenger of the breeze. Axé.

Cult Movies

09/11/2011

Occupy Your Mind: An Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo. My class took a sharp turn because they became Jodorowsky fans, not prompted by me. I am trying to figure him out … neosurrealist sleaze, hippie charlatanry, or interesting – or all of these? Here he is being interviewed in New York … More Cult Movies