This blog got almost 2,000 hits yesterday and it has had 1,300 today so far. Normally it only has about 150 and I think the most it ever got was 500 or so, one day last year. I remember when it became normal to get over 100 hits. Have I suddenly jumped? Will it become … More Is it a trend?
Really I have been justifying my anti-pornography, anti-sadomasochism attitude via Gail Dines. These things are part of mainstream fashion now because they have been sold and not because we have been liberated to do what we really want. The view of women constructed by the pornography industry does not only affect wives and girlfriends, but … More Contradictory … but contains face exercises, important
Una mirada se aproxima a un deslinde de líneas verticales, mas carece de la certeza del acero en la cuchilla y del placer que circuye al agua fresca en el canto de las piedras; se aleja sofocada de la experiencia diaria e inventa en el balcón un pasadizo. Percibe, fraudulenta, la perenne virtud de un … More La luz 2
This comment on the Christian fundamentalist idea of generational curses and what to do about them explains yet another undiscovered piece of the strange and highly destructive psychotherapy I went through. The therapist, as I eventually discovered and comprehended, was a true believer in ACOA, Al-Anon, and other 12 step theories according to which, if … More On generational curses
Noche que no difiere de la noche sino en el filo de la luz que deja la cortina al separarse de la ventana abierta en breves ráfagas. Noche cerrada afuera y silenciosa. Las húmedas tinieblas solapadas por la humedad graciosa del verano forman la habitación, la desfiguran. O acaso la vista cansada instrumente su danza … More La luz 1
1. I repeat. And I cannot believe how many people make this mistake, which even I have always been smart enough not to make. Do not speak poorly of faculty to other faculty. You do not know who is friends with whom, or who may owe favors to whom. You also may not realize which … More More advice to new and prospective new faculty.
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.
Out of scholarly duty I saw Savages and it is even worse than expected — it feels like an assault, really. In any case, I was reminded that Laguna Beach is beautiful and I miss it. I learned that Mexicans are savages and pacifists are highly corruptible and unreliable, and that the sanguine, clean, and … More Savages
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
Blond-haired, blue-eyed, stony-faced, slack-jawed men chewing gum slowly, endlessly, and somewhat menacingly — this is the Southern stereotype and I am always amazed when I actually see such people; they really do exist and everything is true. What people in general are slower to realize is that the South is Black; Yankees against Southerners are, … More El Sur
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