This look involves Kiehl’s tinted moisturizer SPF 15, Burt’s Bees lip gloss, Almay brow defining pencil, and some type of mascara, perhaps Almay intense i-color. That is all I am willing to keep track of in this heat. I am also resigning from the use of heels of any type until 21 September. The look … More El look del verano
This blog has gone somewhat old-timey in the past few days because I am convincing myself to go to this passion play they are putting on at Angola. I will go for the sakes of some of the players, although I would like to boycott this event given my objection to the fact that, in … More Aaron Neville
Minority writers who write about being minorities generally aren’t treated very well in America: too often they are offered up in high school and college courses merely as ritual sacrifices to the gods of multiculturalism. Yet the reason to read James Baldwin, and any good writer regardless of color or creed, is that he can … More Read It Slant (On Baldwin)
The discovery of this swinging video is the result of thinking about James Baldwin. He has a novel, Just Above My Head, whose title naturally makes one want to look at Sister Rosetta Tharpe, that great, possibly rock guitarist. My favorite YouTube comment of all time is on her Strange Things Happening Every Day. “If … More On Doing Things Right Four or Five Times (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
Georgia 1929: “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, “No more water, but fire next time!” Axé.
This is smart. Axé.
As we know, I am fascinated with Working It Out. I need to put this volume aside, though, so as to pore over other things. I also think I will see some things in it more clearly still if I come back to it later, yet I do not want to leave it unfinished on … More Miriam Schapiro, Celia Gilbert
I am becoming myself again at long last; I can feel my life flowing back to me. On the radio they are discussing managing your (musical) career “as though it were a work of art itself” and I like the concept. * I am still reading Working It Out which is a really epoch making … More Adrienne Rich
Catharine R. Stimpson (Working It Out 71-76) was raised to work, not to be supported as we were a generation later – “after the war,” as it was said.Her picture of herself as as a worker “was that of an angel: wings and body of fire; shooting toward heaven, at once desperate and choreographed; longing … More Stimpson, Stevens
The Mississippi River is cresting, and the waterways are full. There is so much water that the usual brown color is tinged with green. The water is flowing by, as opposed to inching in crocodile stillness as it sometimes does. It runs and jumps over the spillways in little white jets. Axé.
