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Fascinating
Besides, Hollywood frightens me. Selling yourself in order to work. Giving a pound of your flesh. Good stories need good actors to make them believable. The more you see someone on magazine covers or … more →
Many Wine Dark Seas
Fascinating
winedarkseas wrote 3 weeks ago: Besides, Hollywood frightens me. Selling yourself in order to work. Giving a pound of your flesh. Go … more →
Thomas F---ing Carlyle...
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Mia Chen wrote 1 month ago: …is about as annoying as I had feared. Still, there’s an interesting bit on China in Pas … more →
The three before the three
Mia Chen wrote 1 month ago: Césaire, Memmi, Fanon vs. Said, Spivak, Bhabha In my ever-shifting reframing of the po-co list, my l … more →
FOOD.
labrattish wrote 1 month ago: It’sbeen a long while, hasn’t it? I wish I had an awesome excuse…but the truth is, … more →
Friendly things
calfy wrote 2 months ago: Bus’s cheeky grin at me, hiding under the duvet Tony exhaling, stubbing out her cigarette and … more →
Does That Make Me the Queen?
winedarkseas wrote 2 months ago: Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and … more →
Neglected Aesthetics
labrattish wrote 2 months ago: My poor blog! I promised a weekly rant post, and I’ve definitely failed at that…health … more →
A Vicious Circle
winedarkseas wrote 2 months ago: I’m in a terrible mood today, so I thought I’d post some Dorothy Parker quotes. The appr … more →
Odds and Ends of Wisdom
labrattish wrote 3 months ago: Wisdom may not be the right word for these…though they are from wise people. Just a collectio … more →
Said In A Great Hushed, Sarcastic Tone
winedarkseas wrote 3 months ago: Get them a magazine rack because they have a lot of issues. — Janeane Garofalo … more →
How a trope becomes a cliché
Craig wrote 3 months ago: To spin a poor simile, writing fiction is a little bit like cooking. You take your ingredients … more →
It's more Hegel, bitches...
Mia Chen wrote 3 months ago: Hegel, on race, is weird: A mild and passionless disposition, want of spirit, and a crouching submis … more →
It's About Time (in Mill on the Floss), Bitches!
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Mia Chen wrote 3 months ago: Some past/present/future snippets: It is not pleasant to give up a rat-catching when you have set yo … more →
Recipe for Sarah Palin Word Salad (with Homespun Wisdom Dressing)
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Hercules Celticus wrote 4 months ago: The main ingredient in most salads is lettuce. But this is a word salad, so the main ingredient is w … more →
Chinese Accuracy?
Mia Chen wrote 4 months ago: At some early point in the life of this blog, I envisioned that it could be used as a kind of group … more →
Is Rhetoric Ethnocentric?
Hercules Celticus wrote 4 months ago: Rhetoric is used by human beings to deliberate issues, adjudicate cases, and create community. Until … more →
GC Quoteables
Sarah wrote 4 months ago: But some will say, The church is the Body of Christ. And so it is. And the Body of Christ was not or … more →
Absolutely Cool
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poetryman69 wrote 4 months ago: A litle etymology now and then is good for the soul. I have a certain fascination for the origin an … more →
Quote of the Day
planetcity1 wrote 4 months ago: Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subje … more →
