Sara Roy London Review of Books 1 January 2009 “Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. . . . “Israel’s siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that … More Sara Roy: “If Gaza Falls”
It is Twelfth Night, so it is Carnival time. The Phunny Phorty Phellows as well as the new Krewe of Jeanne d’Arc, Maid of New Orleans, roll tonight. From Open Source Food, here is the marzipan-filled King Cake I like. One great Carnival reveler was ORSINO, DUKE OF ILLYRIA: If music be the food of … More Rosca de Reyes
I am in my house. The cat sitter drank the champagne. California is really beautiful. It is 2009. Watch out for “school reformers” and tell Obama to appoint Linda Darling-Hammond Secretary of Education! To be a school “reformer” is to support: § a heavy reliance on fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests to evaluate students and schools, generally in … More Linda Darling-Hammond
Now I am in a post at Historiann’s, which is an honor. Historiann’s title for my post, part of her feminist series Lessons for Girls, is “Romance Is For Your Pleasure and Enjoyment.” I offer a revised and expanded version of it here. First I have an hors d’oeuvre: since 1986 men have been trying … More Lessons for Girls 16: Romance is for Fun. And: Hold On To Your Computer, House, and Car.
“Then the populace closes in again, so quickly and densely that it seems impossible it could ever have been parted, and negro water-carriers, muffled women, beggars streaming with sores, sinewy and greasy “saints,” Soudanese sorcerers hung with amulets made of sardine-boxes and hares’-feet, long-lashed boys of the Chleuh in clean embroidered caftans, Jews in black … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Edith Wharton
In the New Year I will renew last year’s vows, namely, to engage in luxury, calm, and voluptuousness. I will call more regularly upon the spirits, who reside here in the breath of winter’s fiery hearth. I In graduate school one had to prove one was serious. One of the main ways to prove this … More New Year: In Which I Am Not a Suburban-American
The third section of this post is the one relevant to its title, but I have a few other things to say. Even before the first thing, and in preparation for tomorrow’s post, I announce that not only do I believe in living in VERY URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, I also believe in SURFING and BACKPACKING, this … More Another Past
I never get over missing the Western landscapes and Woody Guthrie’s song “Roll On, Columbia” never fails to make me nostalgic. The video has majestic photographs, but listen closely to the song lyrics. They are racist, colonialist, anti-environmentalist, and although Guthrie would never admit it, they favor big business. These are some errors in modernization … More Limits of Modernity
In Denmark this is the first day of Christmas. To get ready for Christmas back in the day you had to prepare many special foods, including rolled lamb sausage and pebernødder. On Christmas Eve there was rice pudding and goose with red cabbage. On Christmas Day there was an endless luncheon of pickles and things. … More On the Train
This is also my birthday, and it is an excellent day to work for peace. Among other things let us consider working to free Muntazer Al-Zaidi (especially since Bush has “no hard feelings”) and to get out of Iraq, Barack! I am feeling interestingly light. Here comes part of the 2007 Christmas concert given at … More Lumen Christi
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