revision

Poetry, friends, & blossoms make this world seem brighter. I didn’t even need sleep– I feel as whole as I ever do, whole& confident& happy that I can zoom on…
(PS, Marie Howe amazes me always)

relationship ramble.

I prewrote this entry in my head while riding in the way-too-expensive car from JFK that I decided I needed to take because I don’t have a poem for class& frankly, I don’t feel inspired, just tired& weepy& confused. 
Idaho was up& down, luckily ending on the up. Still, it’s hard to fight for over half [...]

& on top of all this: to get dreds or shave my head? (neither?)

Things I would blog about if I had more time to blog right now& may touch on later while Devin is in class& I am not at coffee or wine or swingsets with other Idahoans:

Postmodern hiking. Essay idea? I went on a hike in Van Cortlandt park last Wednesday. Not only did I get lost [...]

Revisiting Camille on a laundry break while watching squirrels make love in the backyard…

Life is a condition of searching for meaning– an active and affirmative process, unlike the bunkered defeatism of modernism and postmodernism. The multicultural twenty-first century will also require research, as we drift further and further from our ethnic origins. By the principle of what I call creative duality, we must recover and celebrate our ethnic [...]

PS, from Enough.

Putting this here so I remember: I want to go to this. Giving and Beyond: Leveraging Privilege and Resources for Grassroots Movements. Still trying to figure the whole inheritance thing out, & I know I need to balance my father’s donation to Jesse Helms with a donation to a white anti-racist action organization. My giving, my actions [...]

still trying on the “why”

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comformable.– Susan Sontag, from “Against Interpretation”
In [...]

feminine marvelous and tough

4:27am& I have to go turn in a paper at 8:30 so I can be in Boston by 3 with my bag of dirty laundry& whiskey. I feel a minimalist weekend coming on– I don’t feel like bringing my laptop, just my notebook, & Susan Sontag’s, which I started reading on the train earlier today& [...]

PS–

Clearly, I am not knocked up.
& I can never decide whether to keep the link to this on Facebook. Obviously I’m big on transparency& being things we’re supposed to pretend we aren’t… it’s always that cost/benefit analysis of what I have to gain/lose, & the link is back now because right now I have the [...]

Thoughts on Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving, Carolee Schneemann, & Ted Berrigan

I have to write a paper on Stan Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving and generally I like Brakhage because he does not shy away from filming the domestic, which often makes his films target to “feminine” criticism, as though the domestic is an inappropriate realm for a man to explore himself. Feminists may have argued [...]

Rethinking Blogs (&sex, of course)

Back at Chapter House, in Philly, with Hunter. Here for Rethinking Sex with all of the celebrity scholars we love so much; supposed to be working right now– this is my work because I need to write& process all of the things pelting my brain. 
This is supposed to be a “state of the field” conference, [...]