for all the well-wishing! you guys are the best :) hope you have a lovely and safe holiday! (please tell me one of you have plans to fly with a snowman...)<3 br=""&...
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Thursday, 17 December 2009
at 2:30 this morning warren woke me up and put me in the car with loads of blankets and pillows. "just go to sleep," he said and i did.we drove and drove and drove until we stopped. we were on assateague island (home of the wild ponies!), off the coast of maryland. it was still pitch black when we arrived and freezing. but little by little the sky started to get lighter. the clouds started turning pink and orange and then we saw this:which is when...
Thursday, 10 December 2009
I love Christmas music in a way that is almost unnatural. I am a Christmas-Music-All-Year-Long type of girl, which bothers roommates and loved ones when they hear Boyz II Men belting out their love for Jesus and snow in July. I was preparing a blog post on transformation scenes in tween movies, but then I discovered something so terrifying, so plain wrong, that I had to share. It even dampened my love for Christmas music, so that's really saying something.I don't know what possessed me but I Googled "tweens singing Christmas songs." The first one...
Monday, 7 December 2009
it is just a real treat, this movie. i find it nearly impossibly to resist a caper, especially if there are animals & bill murray involved. also, watch this featurette and be amazed:Finally, I just found out that a little essay of mine will be published by Fourth Genre in Fall 2010. I remember reading this lit magazine as a wee undergraduate and thinking, "Maybe one day..." It's so exciting to see it actually happeni...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Monday, 16 November 2009
There are so many reasons not to listen to Taylor Swift that I decided to give it a shot. Why be a hater? Also, it's research for a future Tween Studies Seminar on pop princesses. And crossovers. We could talk about the nerd -> prom queen crossover from hit movies such as She's All That (glasses to no glasses seems to be the major sign of hotness. That is an important threshold--nay, crossover, to consider in this future course)....
Monday, 9 November 2009
Once upon a time, Patricia, Warren, and I went on a magical adventure to a long forgotten place called DINOSAUR LAND. It was the brainchild of a loony, borderline genius man who drives around his fiberglass wonderlands (yes, multiple) in a four wheeler. I imagine he wears a fisherman's cap and sunglasses. Anyway, this adventure included a pit stop at the Pink Cadillac Cafe, Foamhenge (life size model of Stonehenge made entirely out of styrofoam),...
This weekend, it was unseasonably warm here in Iowa so to celebrate we made a key lime pie (thanks Oprah)! With real key limes! Did you know that ripe key limes are yellow, not green? So real key lime pie is yellow, not green? Fakesters put green food coloring in their "key lime pies," which is a technique that real key limers frown deeply upon. Luckily Warren was around to juice all 24 key limes (which yielded approximately 1.25 cups of key lime...
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Remember Raffi? He (along with Wee Sing and Janet & Judy) came on every road trip I ever took as a child. "Baby Beluga" is single-handedly responsible for my love of large aquatic mammals. Anyway, Raffi is awesome and so is this song. Just wait for the hand clap break down at the end. And the outfits are breathtaking. I just fell back in love.creepy & amaz...
is it insane that i started crying after reading about this amazing robot?"In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection...
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Monday, 26 October 2009
i like them.last friday eve we had an impromptu pumpkin party. it involved, for some weird reason, my first foray into homemade potstickers (total success), hot cider, and lots of friends wielding very large and very sharp knives. i also managed to roast the perfect pumpkin seeds, perfect mostly because they didn't burn (which is what all my pumpkin seeds of my past are wont to do). anyway, it turns out that giving folks knives is a good idea. because...
Friday, 23 October 2009
i am literally obsessed. i first heard her on npr and i can't stop listening. her voice is gorgeous!i made the most glorious mashed potato/brussels sprouts (BEST idea ever) last night and listened to this. it's a rare rainy night that reaches such perfection.this is the song that convinced me:in other news, last night i made the dinner party play a word association game. everyone did great and then it was my turn. every time lina said a word, i responded with "BEARS!" i panicked! it was the only thing that came to my mind. for example:lina: wallsme:...
Thursday, 22 October 2009
it's official. warren is awesome. i got home from school to a few emails from him. one included a visual history of hip hop blingthe other included these gorgeous refracted light images, made by alan jaras, which i love because it recalls deep sea biolumescence (kind of obsessed) a big, virtual, unironic slow clap to you, warren...
Monday, 19 October 2009
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Monday was a hard day for me. Generally speaking, people who are paid to lounge in their pajamas for 24 hours a day writing don't get to say things like that because--seriously, what's so bad about lounging and writing? Nothing. Unless you're writing an essay you don't really want to write because you don't really trust yourself to do it they way it ought to be written. Then 24 hour PJ-wearing starts looking pathetic. Around 5 p.m. I decided to leave...
Monday, 28 September 2009
Warren and I met up in Paris a few months ago. It was so nice to be back in some of my old stomping grounds. Paris was a lovely, rainy few days and since today is a lovely, rainy day, I thought I'd share some moments. I really miss it. We climbed the PantheonWe discovered that Noah definitely took unicorns on the arkWe loved Montmartre so very muchWe discovered squeeze Nutella, AKA gift from the godsWe spent one awful, freezing night at a bus stop...
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Brevity Fall 2009 just went live!!! If you are not familiar with Brevity, it is a lovely journal exclusively for "Concise Literary Nonfiction." It is a joy to read. I literally cannot believe that they accepted my essay, but I am insanely glad that they did! You can read it here. Many thanks to Dinty Moore, David Grover, and my amazing mini writing group for making this girl's dreams come tr...
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Folks, the great Pat Madden just told me that an essay of mine ("When the World Explodes"--about volcanoes and spiders and such) was picked as a notable essay in this year's Best American Essays, edited by the one and only MARY OLIVER!!!! I nearly fell out of my chair! Luckily the 15 pounds of ice cream I consumed for my roommate's birthday anchored me pretty well. Anyway, I'm totally honored to be in the company of other notables like Pat himself.To...
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
We first fell in love with these adorably soft critters at the Iowa State Fair and we had to know more. So, for Labor Day, Warren and I drove down a series of dirt roads to get to a lovely farm called Sunny G Acres (owned by the wonderful Carmen & Dorie) to visit a herd of 60 mini donkeys. First we met Sunbun, a brand new jenny who spends most of her time hopping and butting into things. (Caution, the next few pictures may cause your heart...
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