archives for October 2007
sonora desert museum mammals (especially for mandarin)
Wednesday 31 October 2007 | someone left a cookie
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butter my butt and call me pyewacket
Wednesday 31 October 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
For yesterday, after another 12-hour day at school, we did stagger wearily into the kitchen to make toast. And immediately the Brujo, who’d just lubricated his slice thoroughly, dropped it butter-side down on the cat. Upon whom it adhered, as she fled in alarm under the breakfast table. Whence the Brujo chased her, laughing guiltily, [...]
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cinematical postscript
Monday 29 October 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
So I’m guessing the resounding absence of cookies from my rant contra El laberinto del fauno means that you all (those valiant few of you still hanging in here until the bitter end, that is) totally adored the film (also known, as the Editor’s father might joke, as It’s a Wonderful Spanish Civil War)?
following the simple instructions
Monday 29 October 2007 | 5 cookies in the jar
Well, the Un remains a big contender in the search engines for seasonal query how to pronounce Samhain. And we’re still #1 for metahemeralism. Other than that, the DreamHost stats show only that the majority of readers have bailed from our mostly neglected, seldom-updated, entirely self-absorbed experience of…a great big enormous nothing, like a jar. [...]
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friday refrains · mysterious vinyl
Friday 26 October 2007 | I like a cookie
The other day in the thrift shop across the street (one good thing about this godforsaken town in which we live), I found the Brujo hooting over a record I in fact remember very well from my childhood: Janny‘s Covenant Woman. Later images of Janny make it look as if she’s a big lesbo and [...]
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time-wasting facebook movie thread continues
Wednesday 24 October 2007 | 4 cookies in the jar
Brava for glasses of wine and talking movies. Oh yeah, that wiggling ginger-root baby-thing too (and how stupid we definitively knew the captain was when he THREW IT IN THE FIRE)—maybe I’m just getting older. I mean, I’m obviously getting older; but maybe that’s why I seem increasingly disinterested in film that uses torture as [...]
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quick and dirty why-i-disliked-pan’s-labyrinth post (stolen from facebook message)
Tuesday 23 October 2007 | I like a cookie
My new acquaintance wrote: I liked how the forest provided an apt venue for the duality of clandestine activity. I was pretty disappointed in the level of historical content, which seemed to function only on a superficial level. *But* I liked the confused exchanges of food and body parts, which I suppose is par for [...]
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horribly moving to-do list
Sunday 21 October 2007 | someone left a cookie
Well, it’s moving to me; or anyway it’s certainly horrible. But I should explain. So once, long ago, when I was still reviewing movies for the Alt Weekly, I received a press release which referred to its dull-sounding, badly made indie film as being “horribly moving.” The Brujo and I have been joking relentlessly about [...]
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once upon a time there was a blogger….
Monday 15 October 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
Who thought she would go back to grad school. And move to Phoenix. And teach two classes and take three classes. And read submissions for the literary magazine, and take a special week-long workshop with CD Wright, and give a poetry reading, and apply for a fellowship to spend the Christmas break in Oaxaca, and [...]
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speechless
Thursday 4 October 2007 | 6 cookies in the jar
Okay, this is weird. Or maybe it’s cool. I’m not at all sure which.
