Archive for May, 2008
puke.
A new book has been written/illustrated for the purpose of helping little girls understand why mommy got a nip/tuck. I’m not sure what offends me more: the message behind the story or the trashy illustrations… ok, it’s the message.
This book glosses over an important and dangerous decision of plastic surgery and placates the […]
You who wronged a simple man
Bursting into laughter at the crime
And kept a pack of fools around you
To mix good and evil, to blur the line,
Though everyone bowed down before you,
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold meddals in your honour,
Glad to have survived another day,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill […]
Last night in my visual arts class we had a one hour lecture on drawing, etc. My prof showed a couple quick drawings and tried to describe the difference between utilitarian and expressive drawings… I’m still a little confused about that one, so I’ll do some more research.
Until then, I had to […]
“A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.”
- John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
the summer semester begins- dramatically.
0 Comments Published May 5th, 2008 in academia, art-ish, poetry.My first class of the semester was Slavic studies 307: Literature and Film in Eastern Europe. The class started out with heavy material and I do not think it will get any lighter. Our focus is on Polish literature and film, with the holocaust as a main theme. Today we watched one film and […]