Student: This anthology is strange. Professor Zero: Yes. It is an anthology of modern short stories. They are all very strange, it is true. Student: But it is not just that. This class is strange. Professor Zero: How so? Student: It shocks the students. Professor Zero: Is the material that shocking? Student: No. Well, only … More Sur les étudiants
The energy is just bad in Maringouin, there is no escaping it. This is why people who know what is good for them are only here during the week, when they have to be at work. My friend says the quality of the energy has to do with all of the enmeshed relationships, which make … More La vérité
So far today I have almost 1,500 hits on this blog, a number I never get, evidently because I mentioned a Hollywood movie and pornography in the same post. I am now attempting to drive my hit count up by declaring myself a fetishist. The blogger Clarissa says she is a masochist and by the … More I am a fetishist.
The current form of maternal martyr, I discern, is not the one I remember from childhood but is, nonetheless, an interesting inversion of this one. The form of maternal martyrdom I remember was undertaken by those mothers who had renounced everything to be at home with children. They were legion and they were known to … More Maternal martyrs of the 21st century
Despite poor picture quality (note our vampire eyes!) I am posting this. It was taken on the evening of July 3, 2012, and I am the last person on the right. The first person on the right is someone I wrote about last week. And, despite poor picture quality again, I am posting this as … More Breaking pseudonymity, again, and spreading advice for the vain.
The TSA employees do not understand that my visceral level reasons for not going through that airport scanner that takes and keeps the equivalent of your naked photograph is not shyness about the body, but the fact that to have that photograph taken, you must stand in the prisoner of war position, hands on your … More That airport scanner
On my job interview, we went to a bar to talk and soon realized it was too loud for a business meeting. We decided to move to a diner. I stood up and my prospective department chair said, don’t waste the drinks. We picked them up and walked with them outside. In the halls of … More Vignettes from then
In Mexico, they have the Japanese embassy and you can get real Japanese food nearby. That means, economical food actual people from Japan eat on an everyday basis. I was able to feed my dormant, and benign addiction to various kinds of donburi, an addiction I sometimes try and fail to satisfy with the teriyaki … More The Tin Roof Blowdown
1. Take a whole car, by myself, do go do something at a place I could technically walk to. 2. Use hot water and air conditioning at the same time. 3. Leave lights on indoors just for the sake of “safety,” when I am not using the light. 4. Leave plugs in sockets, even when … More Things I do in the United States, but not in other countries
I have gotten quite interested in the food ideas on this blog, and I have bought a small rice cooker for the fall. I will live mostly on brown rice, CSA vegetables, and miso, with the occasional raw fish, egg, ginger root or fermented dairy product. I will avoid most groceries, and drink expensive tea. … More Pork floss and more
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