Hi, again. I’ve got a midterm tomorrow (ew) but have bigger fish to fry here on my BLOG.
Quitting my addiction to the Internet is like quitting my NOT addiction to smoking pot: It is totally useless and always a failure. With in weeks (okay, days?) I’m back on the wagon. I have some thoughts on [...]
Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Obligatory procrastination post
Posted in Culture, tagged anxiety, blogging, facebook, grooooovy dude post, internet, rant on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I had an oddly lovely day alone.
Posted in Culture, New York City, tagged John Updike, poetry, The New Yorker on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight I went to a New Yorker tribute to John Updike at the New York Public Library. There were tons of wonderful writers and friends of Updike there to tell stories about him and read his work. Adam Gopnick read an excerpt from “Paranoid Packaging,” which first appeared in the New Yorker in 1996. Even [...]
Who will do it again?
Posted in Culture, tagged John Updike, obituary, poetry on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Updike, as I’m sure you have read or will read, was a master of his craft, a profoundly talented writer with wit and insight that scratched beneath the skin– it scraped bones. I have only read one of his novels, which I enjoyed very much, but it is his poetry that is most important [...]
Why I Love Berlin (other than the creamy milk)
Posted in Culture, tagged Berlin, getranke, mineralwasser, seltzer on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you ask for a glass of water at a restaurant, 9 times out of 10 they will pour you mineralwasser (also know as SELTZER). Anywhere you can buy still water, you can buy carbonated water!
Forget the land of Milk and Honey, this is the land of Milk and Seltzer and this is the land [...]
I’m a Blogette, too!
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged blogging, Bristol Palin, Cindy McCain, Meghan McCain, music on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I could easily spend an entire day going through all the entries on Meghan McCain’s blog. Back in June she wrote about how she registered Independent when she was 18, but as a symbol of support to her father, she re-registered as a Republican (yikes). I tried desperately to get some clue into how she [...]
A short and simple reason I love Berlin
Posted in Culture, tagged creamy, dairy, delicious!, milk, thick on September 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Milch:
You can’t get skim milk here. At first I was all, “ughhh I’m going to get fat! Fatty milk is grosssss!” But then I had some. Jesus damn, I like it. I like it in my coffee, I like it in my cereal, I like it all the time! For the first time ever i [...]
